Vaciry Li, a second year graduate students from Pharmacology program, was invited to give a talk titled “ESR1 mutation confer novel metastatic functions in genome-edited breast cancer model” at a minisymposium seasion at this year’s AACR conference, which will be held from April 1st to 5th in Washington DC.
Steffi received the honor to serve as Komen Scholar – an international advisory groups which helps to guide Komen’s research and scientific program, education and advocacy work, and public health efforts in the US and abroad.
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Steffi received a $100,000 Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Leadership Award from the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network (MBCN), a patient driven organization. The research they fund will focus on improved understanding of metastases in patients with invasive lobular breast cancer (ILC).
Sreeja has received a AACR Scholar-in-Training Awards and Nilgun has received the DOD grants to support their post-doc studies.
Steffi spoke at the Susan Love Meeting in Santa Monica about ILC. She also enjoyed meeting up with Lori Petite, member of the ILC Advocacy Steering committee.
AACR journal Clinical Cancer Research recently released a paper titled “Active estrogen receptor-alpha signaling in ovarian cancer models and clinical specimens” in January this year. Our previous lab member Dr. Courtney Andersen was the first author of this paper.
The 1st International ILC Symposium was a success. It was attended by 100 researchers and physicians, and 30 advocates. For more information, please go to: https://upci.upmc.edu/wcrc/ilcsymposium-info.cfm
Dr. Matt Sikora starts his own lab as an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado.
Dr. Rebecca Watters has started a new position as Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Pitt.
Dr. Amir Bahreini graduated (YEAH!), and is now back in his home country Iran.
Dr. Courtney Andersen graduated, and is now a Postdoctoral Scientist at AstraZeneca in Waltham, MA.