Graduate students Heidi Hempel and Corey Porter were recently awarded American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Scholar in Training Awards to attend the Seventh AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved held in San Antonio, TX. Congratulations Corey and Heidi!
Heidi Hempel and Corey Porter win AACR Scholar in Training Awards
Each year “Team Prostate” participates in the Prevent Cancer Foundation 5K Walk/Run to have some fun and to support a great organization dedicated to cancer prevention research, education, and outreach. This year the event will be held on September 21 at Nationals Stadium in Washington DC. Please consider supporting Team Prostate and/or joining the team! Visit http://www.preventcancer5k.org/ksfanos.
De Marzo/Sfanos lab
The Department of Pathology Awards Dinner is held annually to honor the great work of the students, fellows, residents and other trainees in the department. Congratulations to Ajay Vaghasia (from the Yegnasubramanian lab) and our own Gretchen Hubbard who were honored with Young Investigator Awards for Excellence in Research!
Gretchen Hubbard and Ajay Vaghasia
Shu-Han Yu presented a poster entitled “Interleukin-6 expression is restricted to the prostate stromal compartment and is not expressed by either primary or metastatic prostatic adenocarcinoma cells” at the recent American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting in San Diego, CA. The news was that the poster got quite a bit of traffic, with both Shu-Han and Angelo De Marzo, M.D., Ph.D. fielding questions! The link to Shu-Han’s abstract can be found here.
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.
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
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.
