News and Recognition
Fiscal Year 2020
Christopher Terranova, postdoctoral fellow in the Rai Lab, received the 2019–2020 Center for Cancer Epigenetics (CCE) Scholars Award.
Melinda Soeung, graduate research assistant from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in the Draetta Lab, received the 2019–2020 Center for Cancer Epigenetics (CCE) Scholars Award.
Alexandria Cogdill, graduate research assistant from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in the Wargo Lab, was the recipient of a Fullbright U.S. Student Research Program Award, Fullbright Fellowship in Paris.
Fiscal Year 2019
Assistant Professor Jessica Galloway-Peña, Ph.D., has received an NIH-Allergy and Infectious Diseases grant for her research on "Identifying Risk Factors for Antibiotic Resistance via Integration of Epidemiology and Metagenomics."
Assistant Professor Andrea Viale, M.D., has received funding from the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation for his research on "Epithelial memory of resolved inflammation as a driver of pancreatic cancer progression."
Assistant Professor, Linghua Wang, Ph.D., has received funding from the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation for her research on "Targeting Tim-3 as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Advanced Gastric Cancer with Peritoneal Metastases."
Alexandria Cogdill, graduate research assistant from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in the Wargo Lab, was awarded CPRIT funding under the CPRIT Research Training Program.
Akash Mitra, graduate research assistant from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in the Futreal Lab, was awarded CPRIT funding under the CPRIT Research Training Program.
Sanjana Srinivasan, graduate research assistant from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in the Draetta Lab, was awarded CPRIT funding under the CPRIT Research Training Program.