Dozens of postgraduate students, graduate students, medical students, residents, postdoctoral fellows/associates, and clinical fellows participated in the seventh Yale Cancer Center Trainee Colloquium July 12.
Organized by the Cancer Research Training & Education Coordination (CRTEC) program at YCC, the colloquium is an annual event designed to be a platform that highlights the research work of Yale trainees and to provide an opportunity to share ideas and initiate collaborations.
For the colloquium, predoctoral MD-, PhD-, MD-PhD students, postdoctoral associates, postdoctoral fellows, residents, and clinical fellows working on cancer research were invited to submit abstracts of their work.
A substantial number of abstracts were gathered from postgraduate students, graduate students, medical students, residents, postdoctoral fellows/associates, and clinical fellows. These abstracts covered a wide range of fields, including basic, translational, and clinical sciences, as well as biostatistics, bioinformatics, and population sciences. From those submissions, 16 oral presentations were selected and 31 poster presentations.
The event began with a keynote speech about career development by Dr. Katerina Politi, followed by the oral and poster presentations. This year's award recipients :
Research Excellence Awards
Mediators of Racial Disparities in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Care—Safraz Hamid, MD, Resident, Surgery, Mentor: Cary Gross
Depletion of KDM5 Demethylases by Avasimibe for Cancer Treatment — Thomas McCabe, PhD student, Pathology, Mentor: Qin Yan
Loss of JAK1 Confers Radioresistance in HNSCC through Cell Cycle Changes— Vanessa Kelley,PhD student, Department of Pharmacology, Mentor: Joseph Contessa
Spatial Multiomics Profiling of Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma—Archibald Enninful, PhD student, Biomedical Engineering, Mentor: Mina Xu
Outstanding Poster Awards:
The RBM15-MKL1 fusion protein alters m6A RNA modification patterns and modulates the expression of Wnt receptors in acute megakaryoblastic leukemia—Madeline Mayday, PhD student, Pathology, Mentor: Diane Krause
ATR-thou damaged? The role of DNA damage regulATR in baseline replication stress and TKI response in EGFR-driven non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)—Shannon Silva, PhD student, Pathology, Mentor: Katerina Politi