Congratulations to Prof. Pompano, who was named in May 2023 as one of the inaugural class of Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellows at UVA! This fellowship recognizes “rising star” mid-career professors from across the university to receive additional research support and to form a community of Shannon fellows for the next three years.
Read more in the UVA Today article:
Katrina’s project, The impact of tumor-draining lymph node remodeling on tumor cell invasiveness, was selected as an awardee for the UVA Cancer Center Trainee Fellowship! This was a competitive process, and her significant and exciting progress on her research progress in the past year was cited as a major strength of the renewal application. Congratulations to Katerina on this well-deserved recognition of your accomplishments and plans!
We are so proud of Hannah and Djuro for their achievements at MSB 2023 in Tallahasse Florida, co-Chaired by Mike Roper, Jim Edwards, and Professor Pompano!
Big congratulations to Dr. Tochukwu Ozulumba, Dr. Jennifer Ortiz Cárdenas, and Alyssa Montalbine for writing a wonderful review about models of the lymph node, now online at Frontiers in Immunology! This review captures the state of the art in in vitro, ex vivo, and computation models of lymph node function, as well as the associated challenges and opportunities. It is open access, so enjoy the read!
This award will fund her work this summer, as she pivots from her nearly-completed project on analyzing the crosslinking of biomaterials, to using those biomaterials to advance cell responses in our lymph node chip system. She and her mentor Jon Zatorski took a big leap to write up the proposal on the next project, and it paid off. Congratulations Izzy on this great accomplishment!
Parris Anbaei and Prof. Pompano travelled to Philadelphia for the first in-person Pittcon since 2020. We had a great time catching up with colleagues, and getting feedback on our research after two invited talks. Prof. Pompano presented in a symposium organized by lab alumna, Prof. Ashley Ross (Univ. Cincinnati), and Parris presented in a session organized by Sally Gowers from the Boutelle lab (Imperial College, UK).
This is a very prestigious award that recognizes her excellence in research and leadership in the department. We are so proud of her many accomplishments!
Please join in congratulating Djuro for this well-earned achievement! Djuro has excelled as a teacher and as Head TA, a position that he was specially chosen for this year. Every week, Djuro helps oversee the learning of more than 1400 students and several dozen TAs. Great job Djuro!
This award will fund Tiffany's work this summer to look at the impact of oxygen availability and culture conditions on long-term human tonsil tissue culture. It's an area that we are all excited to move into, and also synergizes well with the experiments that Sahana and Erin are planning in mouse tissue. I am looking forward to seeing what we learn from these experiments! Congratulations Tiffany!
This award will fund their work together this summer to look at how the tumor draining lymph nodes are remodeled before and after metastasis in a breast cancer model. This exciting project will lay a foundation for understanding the factors that drive tumor cell invasion into the lymph nodes during metastasis, and enable improved models of metastasis and therapies in the future. Congratulations Morgan and Katerina!
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