• Congrats to Dr. Steffi Oesterreich for winning the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring! - Congratulations to Dr. Steffi Oesterreich for being awarded the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring!! Well deserved! https://www.pittwire.pitt.edu/accolades-honors/2026/03/04/provosts-award-doctoral-mentoring
• Congratulations to lab alumni Neil Carleton, Kanako Mori, And Chelsea Chen for matching to residency programs! - Match Day has arrived! Neil Carleton will be headed up to Brigham and Women’s/Harvard for Internal Medicine, Kanako Mori matched at UPMC Internal Medicine, and…
• Congrats to Dr. Jie Bin (Jay) Liu for successfully defending his dissertation
• Who could have imagined being in the same Division as Euro postdocs would lead to a world-renowned team-up in breast cancer science? - Drs. Steffi Oesterreich and Adrian Lee discussing reviewers’ comments from ‘Tamoxifen-bound estrogen receptor (ER) strongly interacts with the nuclear matrix protein HET/SAF-B, a novel inhibitor…
• Congratulations to Dr Neil Carleton for being awarded this year’s Hamilton Translational Science award from the MSTP program. - Congratulations to Dr Neil Carleton for being awarded this year’s Hamilton Translational Science award from the MSTP program.  (Curiously, Dr Nolan Priedigkeit MD PhD, another…
• Congratulations to long-time lab member Jian Chen for 20 years serving Pitt!!
• Komen “More Than Pink” Walk 2025! - The Susan G. Komen More Than Pink Walk in Pittsburgh was a great success! A sunny day with thousands of attendees. Thanks to all of…
• So happy and proud of Hunter Waltermire who will start Pitt Med School this August!
• Patient-Derived Organoid Workshop hosted by Dr. Adrian Lee and the Institute for Precision Medicine - The Institute for Precision Medicine hosted the NCI-BCRF-Komen workshop on “Patient-Derived Breast Cancer Organoids: Challenges & Opportunities” on May 21-22, 2025 at The Assembly in Pittsburgh,…
• NFL legend Larry Fitzgerald toured the Lee-Oesterreich lab!
• New Publication from Dr. Julia Foldi & the L/O Lab: personalized ctDNA in metastatic ILC - Julia Foldi MD and colleagues from the Lee-Oesterreich laboratory collaborated with Natera Inc to report on retrospective analysis of real-world data in 66 patients with…
• The Hope for OTHERS team 2025
• Experts from the Institute for Precision Medicine spearhead groundbreaking discussions at the global PMWC 2025 conference - At the PMWC conference, Adrian Lee, PhD, Director of the Institute for Precision Medicine (IPM), chaired the Clinical Utility of Liquid Biopsies track, leading a…
• George Tseng received an R01CA285337 with MPI of Adrian and Steffi entitled “Single-cell congruence evaluation and selection of cancer models towards precision medicine” - George Tseng received an R01CA285337 with MPI of Adrian and Steffi entitled “Single-cell congruence evaluation and selection of cancer models towards precision medicine”. This work…
• Lee/Oesterreich Lab Retreat 2024! - The Lee-Oesterreich Lab held its annual retreat on December 6, 2024, at Zone 28, Freeport Road, Pittsburgh. This retreat was a valuable opportunity for lab…