Congratulations to Amir, Vaciry, and others on their publication on characterization of ER mutations in breast cancer cells (Bahreini, Li, et al, BCR 2017). Well done!
We are proud to congratulate graduate students Emily Harrington and Kevin Levine on their recent awards at the Magee Women’s Annual Research Day! Emily won the first place fellow/graduate trainee award for her oral presentation entitled “Unique Tamoxifen Regulation of Snail in Invasive Lobular Carcinoma”. Kevin triumphed with the first place fellow/graduate trainee poster award for his poster presentation “Combination FGFR4 and ER-targeted therapy for invasive lobular carcinoma”.
Way to go Emily and Kevin!
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.
http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/10264796-74/cancer-research-university
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.
