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Aug 1, 2025
MCCB Student Awarded Grant for Childhood Leukemia Research
Kelsey Wagner studies how BTG2 regulates therapy resistance in T-ALL, with the goal of identifying targets to resensitize leukemia-initiating cells to treatment and prevent relapse.
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Blood Cancer,Cancer,Student Fellowships, MCCB
Jul 20, 2025
MCCB Student Awarded NIH Fellowship to Study Prostate Cancer Immune Suppression
Kat Murphy is exploring how interferon signaling drives immunotherapy resistance in neuroendocrine prostate cancer, with the goal of developing new therapeutic strategies.
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Prostate Cancer,Student Fellowships, MCCB
May 12, 2025
MCCB Student Receives NIH Fellowship to Study Chemoresistance in BRCA-Mutant Cancers
Nate MacGilvary is investigating how chemoresistance develops in BRCA-mutant breast and ovarian tumors to identify targetable mechanisms that could improve patient outcomes.
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Breast Cancer,Cancer,Ovarian Cancer,Student Fellowships, MCCB
May 1, 2025
Bradley Class Awarded NIH Fellowship to Study Rare Neurodegenerative Disorder
Bradley Class will use single-cell somatic mutation analysis to characterize how loss of the ATM gene impacts Purkinje cell neurons in ataxia telangiectasia.