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Canoles Cancer Center PhD students win Travel Awards
Story Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:00:43 EDT
PhD candidates Cody Phelps and Robert Van Sciver won 2 of 3 Biomedical Sciences travel awards at this year's Research Day.
Mr. Phelps' poster was based on his current research which has revealed a new tumor suppressive role of TTF-1/NKX2-1 in lung cancer by showing that TTF-1 can confer a sensitivity to the chemotherapy drug cisplatin by increasing the secretion of the cytokine GM-CSF. Cody is a member of David Mu's lab.
Mr. Van Sciver's poster was based on research that has identified SINA/SIAH as a novel cancer target and shown that it is evolutionarily and functionally conserved from fruit flies to humans. Robbie is a member of Amy Tang's lab.