• The Lee-Oesterreich Lab is heading to San Francisco for the International Invasive Lobular Carcinoma (ILC) Symposium, September 23–25! - It’s a happy moment for us; this symposium got its start here in Pittsburgh back in 2016, and it’s incredible to see how far it’s…
• Congrats to Drs. Adrian V. Lee, Steffi Oesterreich, and Daniel D. Brown for their contributions to the latest Nature publication: A dependency map enhanced with next-generation 3D cancer models! - Congrats to Drs. Adrian V. Lee, Steffi Oesterreich, and Daniel D. Brown for their contributions to the latest Nature publication: A dependency map enhanced with…
• Congrats to Connor Purdy, Ph. D. who has been awarded an AACR/LBCA Fellowship for his project, “E-Cadherin Loss Reprograms the Endoplasmic Reticulum to Remodel the Membrane Proteome in ILC.” - Connor Purdy, a postdoctoral fellow in the Lee-Oesterreich lab, has been awarded an AACR/LBCA Fellowship for his project, “E-Cadherin Loss Reprograms the Endoplasmic Reticulum to…
• “Girls on the Run” at Lincoln Elementary School raised funds for breast cancer awareness and research! - Girls on the Run at Lincoln Elementary School in the Mt. Lebanon School District included a team of 4th and 5th grade girls participating in…
• Lab members participated in the 2026 Komen More Than Pink Walk - Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2026 Komen More Than Pink Walk!
• Lab members participated in the 2026 Rush to Crush Cancer fundraiser! - Thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s Rush to Crush Cancer!
• Congrats to Insa Thale, PhD for winning the Professional Development Award at PPRS! - Insa presented her poster “CDH1 Loss Drives Tumor Immune Microenvironment Remodeling and Metabolic Reprogramming in a Syngeneic ER+ ILC-like Model” at the Pitt Postdoc Research…
• Congrats to Dr. Abdalla Wedn for successfully defending his PhD!! - Abdalla Wedn was awarded his Ph.D. after defending his dissertation entitled “Epigenetic Upregulation of TFAP2B Drives Cell Proliferation and Tumor Growth in Invasive Lobular Breast…
• Congratulations to Brent Schlegel on winning the MCBIOS 2026 Young Scientist Excellence Award! - Congrats to Brent Schlegel, who won first prize in the Young Scientist Excellence Award competition at the 2026 Mid-South Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS)…
• Congratulations to Lauren Grove who was awarded the Mary Baker Marks Fellowship! - Congrats to Lauren Grove who presented her research and was selected to receive the Mary Baker Marks Fellowship by Dr. Stanley Marks and Dr. John…
• 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…