Please join me in congratulating Dr. Abigail Alexander on being awarded for the second time in a row, the American Academy of Neuropathologists (AANP)Trainee Travel Award for her research entitled "Cortical-sparing Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CS-CTE): Categorizing a Distinct Pathological Subtype of CTE" at the 98th Annual Meeting in Bonita Springs Florida.  This is a prestigious award which brings high honor to our department on a national level.

Sophia Zheng performed her undergraduate senior thesis work in the Boekelheide Lab. She received a Senior Biology Prize for Academic Excellence in Biological Sciences awarded to a handful of undergraduate seniors concentrating in Biology, in part for this work.

Development of a Proof-of-Principle MCF-7 and HepaRG 3D-2D Co-culture Platform for Toxicity Testing
Sophia Zheng
Advisors: Dr. Kim Boekelheide, MD, PhD and Dr. Blanche Ip, PhD

Dr. Wafik El-Deiry has received the Inventor of the Year Award from Brown University.  The award was presented to Dr. El-Deiry by Drs. Jill Pipher (Vice President for Research), Richard Locke (Provost) & Neil Veloso.

https://twitter.com/weldeiry/status/1519789863314374658

Dr. Ece Uzun, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine has received the the Karen T. Romer Award for Excellence in Advising.

Legoretta Cancer Center Director, Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, testified before the Rhode Island House of Representatives on Bill 8008 regarding Data Sharing in Medical Research for all Rhode Islanders which was introduced by Representative Mia Akerman. 

Please view the video below:

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Honored to present the opening lecture at the @hopkinskimmel⁩ 4th Quarter Cancer Biology Course on March 28, 2022.

https://twitter.com/weldeiry/status/1508494738990768138

The El-Deiry Lab and its collaborators will have 23 presentations at the upcoming AACR annual meeting from April 8-13, 2022 in New Orleans, LA.

https://twitter.com/weldeiry/status/1504132492953067521?s=20&t=Gm0tl7Xe0TgmjaL8oEQ8CA

Kelsey Huntington was awarded the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (#NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (#F31) by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) on her first-round grant application titled “Small-molecule Inhibition of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 Sensitizes Colorectal Cancer Cells and Stimulates Immune Cells to Bolster Immune Cell-mediated Tumor Cytotoxicity” that will fund the remainder of her PhD here at Brown University.

https://twitter.com/BrownUPathoGP

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kelsey-huntington_nrsa-f31-eldeirylab-activity-6909164035045273600-_i_F

The Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University has been approved for full membership in the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)

Project Title: FIA-Morehouse School of Medicine and the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University

The award is related to Diversity in Cancer Research Institutional Development. The American Cancer Society is grateful Brown University is allowing Dr. El-Deiry to accept this award to support ACS’s efforts to increase workforce diversity.