Congratulations to Dr. Rosner for being recognized for her hard work and commitment to women’s health. Marsha is featured in this month’s Crain’s Chicago Business that profiles women leaders in Chicago who have made significant impact within the healthcare industry.
Continue reading “Dr. Rosner Featured in Crain’s List of Notable Women in Health Care”
And many thanks for Andrea to bring the fabulous cheese cake!
Continue reading “Happy Birthday to Joe!”
Today we celebrate the end of Amy’s fruitful summer doing research with us. Amy is a rising senior student at Peking University and she spent two months here as one of the 2019 International Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Program scholars. Under the mentorship of Peter and Ali, Amy has generated lots of data and showcased her excellent critical thinking skills and technical prowess with an impressive presentation in front of UChicago faculty and students. We’re so happy to have met her and we wish her all the best with her graduate school applications!
Continue reading “Big Congrats to Our Summer Student Xiaohe “Amy” Xie!”
As Jiyoung’s ready for the next stage of her career at George Washington University, we gathered at Marsha’s house for a farewell Korean style BBQ. We’ll miss her and the little ones!
Continue reading “Jiyoung’s Farewell BBQ”
We are happy to have Perla for two summers at the lab. Perla Grimaldo-Ramirez is the Junior Class President of Pomona College and she for the past two summers she worked with Nykia. We wish her all the best in her future career!
Continue reading “Congratulations to Perla for Completing Summer Internship!”
Congratulations to Dr. Jiyoung Lee for accepting her new job offer at the GWU! Starting this September, Jiyoung will join the George Washington University as an assistant professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine. On behalf of the lab, Dr. Rosner presented a special mug to Jiyoung as a celebratory gift. Andrea brought quiche, lemon curd parfait and cupcakes all made by herself. They are absolutely amazing!
Continue reading “Celebrating Jiyoung’s New Job at the George Washington University”
Congratulations to Ali and Payal for officially becoming doctors! On Friday, Marsha hooded both of them at the Divisional Academic Ceremony. We’re glad to have Payal visiting us from Boston.
Continue reading “Official Graduation of Ali and Payal”
This is Ali’s first birthday as a PhD! Now that he’s a postdoc instead of grad student, his birthday cake has been upgraded with more candles.
Payal’s paper “Metabolically activated adipose tissue macrophages link obesity to triple-negative breast cancer” was just published in Journal of Experimental Medicine! The paper is a great showcase of her thesis project.
Our lab’s latest paper “Effective breast cancer combination therapy targeting BACH1 and mitochondrial metabolism” is now on Nature. The Advance Online Publication is accessible here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1005-x
Students and faculty members enjoyed the a cappella concert last Friday by the Histones group. The last song was dedicated to Ali, the founder of the Histones. We will truly miss him when he graduates!
Highlights from the concert:
Huge CONGRATULATIONS to Ali for becoming a doctor! His thesis defense, titled “Discovery of anti-metastatic therapies guided by the physiological suppressor Raf Kinase Inhibitory Protein”, was attended by professors, friends, and family. Ali’s thesis defense went through smoothly this morning, with several jokes, funny stories, and a very moving acknowledgement. The thesis committee members all voted Yay after the presentation, so now we have Dr. Yesilkanal! Continue reading “A PhD is Born!”
We celebrate the birthday of Janie, our administrator at the department. Thank you Marsha for getting the awesome cheese cake! Continue reading “Happy Birthday to Janie!”
We are so proud that Dr. Payal Tiwari earned her PhD degree here and will now continue her academic career at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston! Continue reading “Farewell to Dr. Tiwari!”
We celebrated Marsha’s birthday with a fantastic pot luck lunch! Thanks everyone bringing the delicious food! Thanks to our social committee chair Dr. Walker for organizing!
Today we celebrate Joe’s second birthday at the Rosner Lab! Wish him another year of happiness and science!
Congratulations to Ali for receiving the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation Elaine Ehrman Award!
We are so proud of Payal for successfully defending her thesis! She is Dr. Payal Tiwari now!
We celebrate the 20th Birthday of Chris! Chris joined the lab this spring as a freshman in the College. In addition to his individual research project, Chris has also been working with Dr. Lee and Dr. Wynne on their projects.
