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May 30, 2025
Former MCCB Student Receives Satish & Sudha Gupta Award for Cancer Research
Kevin O’Connor is first recipient of the Satish & Sudha Gupta Award, established to support MD/PhD students at UMass Chan who are actively engaged in cancer research.
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Cancer,Student Achievements, 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.
Lucio Castilla to Explore Therapeutic Approach to Delay Onset of Blood Cancer
Lucio Castilla, PhD, has received NCI funding to evaluate tyrosine kinase inhibitors as preventive therapy for RUNX1-FPD, a hereditary condition that increases blood cancer risk.