Gretchen Hubbard Wins Award at the Seventh Annual Prostate Cancer Program Retreat

Posted on March 20, 2014December 23, 2015 by ksandel1

Dr. Gretchen Hubbard won the 2nd Place Award for her poster “Genomic Instability Induced by MYC Expression and Concomitant Loss of Pten in a Lethal Metastatic Mouse Model of Prostate Cancer” presented at the Seventh Annual Multi-Institutional Prostate Cancer Program Retreat co-sponsored by Johns Hopkins, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Institution, the University of Michigan, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Gretchen’s exciting mouse model was developed during her time as a Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Dr. Charles Bieberich at UMBC and in collaboration with Dr. Angelo De Marzo at Johns Hopkins. Congratulations Dr. Hubbard!

Dr. Gretchen Hubbard presents at the 2014 Prostate Cancer Research Program Retreat.

Dietary Chemoprevention of PhIP Induced Carcinogenesis in Male Fischer 344 Rats with Tomato and Broccoli

Posted on December 9, 2013December 9, 2013 by ksandel1

Check out a brand new publication in PLOSone on the prevention of cancers caused by a dietary carcinogen referred to as PhIP (produced in meats cooked at high temperatures) by eating a diet rich in tomato and broccoli! Lead author Dr. Kirstie Canene-Adams was formerly a post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Nutrition and Foods Program, School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Texas State University.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0079842

Support team Natty Mo’s in Movember!

Posted on November 6, 2013November 17, 2013 by ksandel1

Once again team Natty Mo’s will be growing facial hair (well, most of us anyways) in the month of “Movember” to help raise awareness for men’s health. To find out more and to support our cause please visit http://us.movember.com/mospace/4985873.