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Nikka Givpoor joins the lab as a new PhD student!

7/22/2024

We are excited that Nikka Givpoor (UMD BIOE '24) will be joining us as a new (direct admit) graduate student this August! Nikka worked in our lab as an undergraduate student (Feb. 2023 - May 2024) and has already co-authored a recent bioRxiv paper. She will be funded by a NIH Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA), which is through our new NCI/UMD Partnership for Integrated Cancer Research seed grant in collaboration with Dr. Meera Murgai at NCI. Welcome to the lab, Nikka! We are so excited to have you back in the lab!

Lab awarded NCI/UMD Partnership for Integrated Cancer Research seed grant!

7/19/2024

We are grateful for new funding awarded from the NCI/UMD Partnership for Integrated Cancer Research! This seed grant award will provide funding for one graduate student for up to two years. The project will be a collaborative effort with Dr. Meera Murgai at NCI and will focus on developing a niche-in-a-dish platform for quantitatively analyzing the role of stromal components on disseminated tumor progression. Thank you to the NCI/UMD Partnership program for this new funding!

Shohini becomes a UMD Writing Center Fellow!

7/9/2024

Congrats to PhD student Shohini Banerjee, who recently accepted a fellow position in the UMD Writing Center. While continuing to work on her PhD in our lab, Shohini will help others improve their writing as a writing center fellow. Congrats, Shohini!