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Congratulations to the Research Day winners!

Research Day Awards winners 2023
Clockwise (top left) Enzo Baracuhy, Lindyann Lessey, Tomas Frankovich, Ana Portillo, Will Maich, Daniel Mobilio, Ally Moore, Kanwal Singh. Photo credits: Patrick Ang

We’d like to congratulate the winners from this year’s Research Day Symposium from September 22, 2023.

Oral Presentations
We had a tie for first place

  • 1st place (joint) – Will Maich (Singh Lab) – uPAR as a novel immunotherapeutic target in recurrent Glioblastoma
  • 1st place (joint) – Ana Portillo (Ashkar Lab) – Human ?? T cells expanded long term with feeder cells expressing membrane bound IL-21 exert high antigen independent anti-tumor function
  • 3rd place – Kanwaldeep Singh (Berg Lab) – Venetoclax and LSD1 inhibitor Bomedemstat synergistically target cellular metabolism in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Rapid-Fire Presentations
We had a tie for first place

  • 1st place (joint) – Tomas Frankovich (Rullo Lab) – Reversible covalent immune recruiters allow selective and tunable engagement of immune machinery
  • 1st place (joint) – Lindyann Lessey (Daniel Lab) – Kaiso and p120ctn in intestinal diseases 

Poster Presentations

  • 1st place – Enzo Barachuy (Mossman Lab) – Elucidating the role of non-replicating particles in bovine herpesvirus-1 immunotherapy

Cindy Lee Graham Award
Presented to a graduate student who has made significant contributions, or demonstrates a clear potential to do so, in brain or central nervous system cancer

  • Allyson Moore (Bramson Lab)

Alexander Janke Memorial Scholarship in Brain Cancer Research
Presented to to a graduate student who has made significant contributions, or demonstrates a clear potential to do so, in glioblastoma or other brain cancer research

  • Daniel Mobilio (Singh Lab)

 

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