Accolades & Awards
TRAINEE SPOTLIGHT SUMMER 2023
Congratulations to Swati Mohapatra who recently received The GSBS Schissler Fellowship.
TRAINEE SPOTLIGHT SPRING 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Ye Li for successfully completing his Ph.D. under the mentorship of Dr. Katy Rezvani. Dr. Li is currently works as a Postdoctoral Fellos in the Rezvani lab.
TRAINEE SPOTLIGHT SPRING 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Soleil Hernandez who successfully defended her thesis research entitled, "Automating the Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Process for Pediatric Patients with Medulloblastoma."
TRAINEE SPOTLIGHT Fall 2022
Congratulations to Wen-Hao Hsu who recently received an NCI F99 for his proposal entitled "Oncogenic Kras drives stromal adipogenesis to promote colorectal cancer progression." This a remarkable accomplishment as only three other applicants from MD Anderson have ever won this award.
TRAINEE SPOTLIGHT SPRING 2022
Congratulations Travis Salzillo on receiving the 2021 Aaron
Blanchard Award for the best dissertation in the MD Anderson Graduate
School of Biomedical Sciences medical physics program!
Congratulations to Travis for also receiving the Thomas H. and Mayme P. Scott Fellowship in Cancer Research Award at Trainee Research Day!
TRAINEE SPOTLIGHT SPRING
2022
Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Babcock who
successfully defended her dissertation for her thesis entitled
"The role and regulation of Id2 in dendritic cells".
TRAINEE SPOTLIGHT SPRING 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Sunada Khadka who successfully defended
her dissertation for her thesis entitled "The TCA cycle as a
nexus of metabolic vulnerabilities in cancer".
TRAINEE SPOTLIGHT SPRING
2022
Congratulations to Dr. Rakhee Bajaj who
successfully defended her dissertation for her thesis entitled
"Novel regulators of cellular secretion alter the tumor
microenironment to drive NSCLC metastasis".
TRAINEE SPOTLIGHT SPRING 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Mi Li who successfully defended his dissertation for his thesis entitled "Low Molecular Weight Cyclin E Deregulates DNA Replication and Damage Repair to Promote Genomic Instability in Breast Cancer".
TRAINEE SPOTLIGHT SPRING 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Emily Thompson who successfully defended her dissertation for her thesis entitled "Hepatocellular Carcinoma Image Guided Intervention: Quantitative Characterization of Thermochemical Ablation".
Alumni Accomplishments
Congratulations to Graduate Scholar alumni, Dr. Vincent Bernard Pagan, as he received the Ann Eastland Spears Fellowship in Pancreatic Cancer Research Award at Trainee Research Award!