Dr. Oesterreich was awarded the 2022 Theresa’s Leadership Award in Basic Science from Theresa’s Research Foundation at this years MBCRC conference. Thanks to all in the lab and alumni for making this happen.
Congrats to lab member Neil Carleton and surgeon / lab collaborator Dr. Priscilla McAuliffe on their recent publication in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology! This comment explores how chronological age cutoffs in clinical oncology guidelines are defined. Using the case of breast cancer in older women, the authors discuss why the age at which individuals transition from ‘younger’ to ‘older’ has been defined in a heterogeneous, unstandardized, arbitrary and disparate manner.
Read the full article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41571-022-00684-4.
The lab finally got to enjoy a couple days away to talk science and socialize in rural PA at the beautiful University of Pittsburgh Pymatuning Lab of Ecology!
Congratulations to Dr Sayali Onkar for successfully defending her PhD dissertation ‘Investigating the Immune Microenvironment of Primary Estrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer ‘. Sayali was co-mentored by Steffi Oesterreich, and Dario Vignali (immunology). Congrats, Dr Onkar!
Lee/Oesterreich lab was well represented at the 2022 ILC Symposium in June 2022 in Utrecht, Netherlands. Excellent presentations (oral and poster) from Neil and Laura. And we had fun, too!
Kai Ding was awarded his Ph.D. after defending his dissertation “Multi-omics profiling of breast cancer metastases to identify drivers and mechanisms of endocrine resistance for precision medicine”
The Lee/Oesterreich lab walked as the “Steel City Research Warriors” team in the 2022 Komen West Pennsylvania “More Than Pink” Walk.
Some of the Lee/Oesterreich lab toured our new lab space in the Ford Building to plan how we will set up the lab when we move this summer. The new building in Shadyside, where Model-T Ford cars used to be assembled, will allow closer integration with other research teams at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center as well as offering an efficient and sleek design.
Adrian and Steffi meeting up with lab alumni at AACR April 2022.
