Athena will be heading to AbbVie as a senior data scientist. Congratulations, and we are rooting for your future success!
Huy Dinh
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.
Athena was highlighted in the CGSI Spring 2025 news edition
Student Highlight: Athena Golfinos-Owens – Analyzing the tumor microenvironment
Huy presents our single-cell analysis of fallopian tube immune cells as an invited speaker at the 2024 Ovarian Cancer Midwest Focus (OCMF) Conference
Athena presents at the Thomas Waldmann Memorial Plenary Session: Understanding Response and Resistance – Lessons from Patient Samples (SITC 2024)
Athena presented her winning abstract, selected by the leaders in the cancer immunotherapy field, on the topic of analyzing patient samples from immunotherapy treatment. Congratulations and well-done!
Athena won Young Investigator Abstract Travel Award and Oral Abstract Presentation at the SITC 39th Annual Meeting
Grad student Athena won the travel award for an oral presentation at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society of ImmunoTherapy for Cancer meeting. She will present her spatial and single-cell analysis of Head and …
Huy presents at Advancing Precision Medicine Symposium 2024
Huy presents our single-cell and spatial analysis at Advancing Precision Medicine Symposium 2024.