• Our paper about ESR1 mutations and breast cancer metastasis is now published in Cancer Research!  - This study was led by former graduate student Vaciry Li with great efforts from many intra- and inter-group collaborations. Congratulations to all!  In this study,…
• Our new review is out now in The Lancet Healthy Longevity! - Led by PhD student Neil Carleton and senior authors Adrian Lee, Priscilla McAuliffe, and Steffi Oesterreich, we review key considerations for “right-sizing” therapy options for…
• The Lee/Oesterreich lab attend the Magee-Womens Summit - Members of the lab attended the opening dinner of the Magee-Womens Summit, a 3-day conference dedicated to womens health. They also got to meet Jerome…
• Kai Ding, Ashuvinee Elangovan, and Daniel Brown win awards at the Great Lakes Breast Cancer Symposium! - Congrats to Kai Ding for his Best Presentation Award and to Ashuvinee Elangovan and Dr. Daniel Brown for Poster Awards. 300 attendees came together virtually…
• Congrats to Ashuvinee Elangovan for her poster award at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Scientific Retreat! - Congratulations to Ashuvinee Elangovan on winning 2nd place for her poster “Loss of E-cadherin Induced IGF1R Activation as a Targetable Pathway for Invasive Lobular Breast…
• Congrats to Postdoc Olivia McGinn for receiving the Hillman Postdoctoral Fellowship for Innovative Cancer Research! - This training program is designed to recruit postdoctoral fellows from around the country to conduct cutting edge research at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. For…
• Congrats to Neil and the lab on their recent paper studying treatment regimens for elderly breast cancer – out now in JAMA Network Open! - Update (7/16/2021): Check out the 21 news stories written on our recent publication!https://jamanetwork.altmetric.com/details/103966504/news Led by Neil Carleton with significant contributions from others in the lab…
• Congrats to Neil on receiving an excellent (and fundable!) score on his NIH NRSA F30 fellowship award! - Congrats to Neil Carleton on his excellent score on his F30 award application, which is titled, “Promotion of ER+ Breast Cancer Progression in the Elderly.”…
• Lee-Oesterreich Lab BBQ at North Park, under social distancing rules. -
• Our lab designated a “2020 Pitt Green Lab”! - The Lee/Oesterreich lab recently acquired the “Pitt Green Lab” designation, symbolizing our efforts and commitment to increase sustainable lab practices as outlined in the “Pitt…
• Congratulations to fifth year graduate student Zheqi (Vaciry) Li for successfully defending his dissertation! - On April 6th, 2020, Vaciry Li successfully defended his thesis titled “Hotspot ESR1 mutations are contextual and multimodal drives of breast cancer endocrine resistance and…
• Congratulations to MD/PhD student Megan Yates for being awarded an NIH F30 Grant! - Megan Yates has received an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Predoctoral NRSA for MD/PhD and other Dual Degree Fellowships F30 for her project “Functional Characterization…
• Lab Bowling! - The Lee/Oesterreich lab cuts loose in bowling shoes:
• Congrats to current & former lab members Nilgun Tasdemir and Matthew Sikora for securing independent K99 funding! - Nilgun Tasdemir, Ph.D. I have been very lucky to carry out my postdoctoral training in the Lee/Oesterreich Lab and I could not imagine a better…
• Drs. Adrian Lee and Steffi Oesterreich host the Susan G. Komen Appreciation Day in Pittsburgh -