News
News
2018-2019
- Scott Gerber received a 2 million dollar R01 research grant from the National Cancer Institute focusing on an innovative immunotherapeutic strategy to treat pancreatic cancer.
- Taylor Uccello was awarded a travel award from the Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) Society to attend the Advanced Course in Immunology this summer.
- David Linehan recently received a multi-million-dollar R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute of exploring novel therapies for pancreatic cancer.
- Congratulations to Taylor Uccello for winning the top prize at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Institute 23rd Annual Scientific Symposium in Solid Tumor Biology and Therapy.
- Aditi Murthy successfully defended her graduate thesis. Good luck at your post doc at Uniformed Services University studying the role of Sca-1 in breast cancer.
- Members of the Center will attend and present data at the AACR Japanese Cancer Association.
- Luis Ruffolo and Peter Prieto have published a case report in Cancer Reports on a rare breast cancer manifestation.
- Scott Gerber was awarded orphan drug designation for his research in cytokine and radiotherapy treatments in pancreatic cancer.
- Katherine Jackson has provided surgical care during a recent mission trip to India.
- Shuyang Qin recently joined the laboratory of Peter Prieto.
- Congratulation Brad Mills for winning the 2018 Rochester Vaccine Fellowship for his research in a novel cytokine strategy to treat pancreatic cancer.
- Collaborative work on the microbiome and oral cancer between Steve Gill and Scott Gerber won the top poster prize in the Wilmot Cancer Institute research day.