Year: 2025
Huy gives keynote talk at the Stem Cell Fall 2025 conference
Huy visited University of Kansas Medical Center and give a talk at KUMC cancer seminar series
Josh defended his thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Brand!
Josh delivered an outstanding thesis defense and will head to Boston for an industry postdoctoral position at Visterra, Inc. We wish Dr. Brand all success in this next endeavor!
Spatial RNA-Seq analysis showed proof-of-concept study of burn wound microenvironment published in WRR
In collaboration with the Angela Gibson lab, an analysis led by Parth showed “the capability of spatial transcriptomics to detect spatial gene expression patterns in burn tissue. Specifically, we show that (i) spatially variable expressed …
Athena defended her thesis! Congratulations Dr. Golfinos-Owens!
Athena will be heading to AbbVie as a senior data scientist. Congratulations, and we are rooting for your future success!
Lab Presentations at AACR – Chicago 2025
Anqi presented her poster identifying potential anti-tumoral neutrophil phenotypes using scRNA-Seq for Head and Neck cancer mouse models across different immunotherapies. Josh presented his poster evaluating immune response phenotypes for combined radiation and immune checkpoint …
Graduate student Athena won AACR scholar-in-training award for her abstract in characterizing vulvar tumor microenvironment!
This is Athena’s 2nd AACR award, congratulations!
Undergrad student Sananda won research fellowships
Sananda won the 2025 L&S Honors Summer Research Apprenticeship Award & 2025-2026 Sophomore Research Fellowship for her neutrophil activating therapies project in head and neck cancers under the supervision of grad student Anqi. Congratulations to …
WPP funded our vulvar research project
We will use scRNA-Seq and integrated bulk RNA-Seq analysis to study vulvar subtyping with 2-year funds from the WPP NI program.