2023
Dr. Elsa Flores
- Speaking engagements at the following organizations
- VCU Massey Cancer Center - Virginia Commonwealth University - Richmond, VA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center - Columbia University - New York, NY
- University of Arizona - Cancer Engineering Symposium - Tucson, AZ
- Moffitt Regional Event - Boone, NC
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Harvard Medical School - Boston, MA
- 18th Transgenic Technology Meeting - Opening Keynote Speaker - Houston, TX
Suehelay Acevedo Acevedo
- Poster presentation at the Bioengineering at Moffitt (BAM) Cancer Summit - Tampa, FL
- Poster presentation at Moffitt Scientific Symposium for Basic Science
- Poster presentation finalist at the 10th International MDM2 Workshop - Tokyo, Japan
- Received travel award to attend the 10th International MDM2 Workshop - Tokyo, Japan
- Featured on Spectrum News along with mentee Kaitlyn Miranda discussing the Moffitt ENCOURAGE program
Jaden Baldwin
- promoted to Research Associate II in March
Tina Carr
- Joined the lab in October as a Research Associate II
Avani Deshpande
- Poster presentation at the NCI RNA Biology Symposium - Bethesda, MD
- Third place for outstanding presentation in the Molecular Oncology Research in Progress series for junior scientist category - Moffitt Cancer Center
John Lockhart
- Paper titled Grading of Lung Adenocarcinomas with Simultaneous Segmentation by Artificial Intelligence (GLASS-AI) published in npj Precision Oncology
- Selected speaker at the 5th Annual North American Mass Spectrometry Sumer School - Madison, WI
- Poster presentation at the Bioengineering at Moffitt (BAM) Cancer Summit - Tampa, FL
Marco Napoli
- Selected speaker at the 10th International MDM2 Workshop - Tokyo, Japan
2022
Dr. Elsa Flores
- Promoted to Associate Center Director of Basic Science
- Speaking engagements at the following organizations
- Mayo Clinic - College of Medicine & Science - Rochester, MN
- MD Anderson - Blaffer Seminar Series Speaker - Houston, TX
- University of Michigan - Cancer Biology Retreat - Ann Arbor, MI
- Moffitt Foundation - Moffitt Research Innovations Event - New York City, NY
- Tulane School of Medicine - Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology - New Orleans, LA
- Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - St. Petersburg, FL
Hayley Ackerman
- Third place for outstanding presentation in the Molecular Oncology Research in Progress series for senior trainees - Moffitt Cancer Center
- Featured Poster Winner at the Moffitt Scientific Symposium for Basic Science
Santanu Adhikary
- Joined the lab in July as a Post-doctoral fellow
Ashley Lui
- Joined the lab in August as a T32 Post-doctoral fellow
John Lockhart
- Third place for outstanding presentation in the Molecular Oncology Research in Progress series for senior trainees - Moffitt Cancer Center
Marco Napoli
- Second place for outstanding presentation in the Molecular Oncology Research in Progress series for senior trainees - Moffitt Cancer Center
- Selected speaker at the 2022 Moffitt Cancer Center Scientific Symposium - Moffitt Cancer Center
- Poster presentation at the 18th International p53 workshop - Rehovot, Israel
2021
Dr. Elsa Flores
- RNA Medicine Symposium speaker - "Unveiling therapeutic opportunities to target the p53 pathway in cancer through understanding the regulatory network of lncRNAs" - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- P01 grant application entitled "Identifying Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Lung Cancer" awarded from NCI
Hayley Ackerman
- Silver award for outstanding presentation in the Molecular Oncology Research in Progress series for senior trainees - Moffitt Cancer Center
Avani Deshpande
- Review titled The Landmark Discovery That Paved the Way to a Mechanistic Understanding of P53 Gain of Function and Personalized Medicine published in Cancer Research
Yifeng Gao
- Joined the lab in August as a post-doc
John Lockhart
- Bronze award for outstanding presentation in the Molecular Oncology Research in Progress series for senior trainees - Moffitt Cancer Center
- Poster presentation at the Cancer Biology Training Consortium Retreat - Nashville, TN
Marco Napoli
- Review titled The Landmark Discovery That Paved the Way to a Mechanistic Understanding of P53 Gain of Function and Personalized Medicine published in Cancer Research
- Gold award for outstanding presentation in the Molecular Oncology Research in Progress series for senior trainees - Moffitt Cancer Center
Michelle Reiser
- Joined the lab in August as a research project specialist to assist with the PO1
2020
Suehelay Acevedo Acevedo
- Joined the lab as a post-doc in August
Ngoc Hoang Bao Bui - alumni
- Paper titled Spatiotemporal Regulation of ΔNp63 by TGFβ-Regulated miRNAs Is Essential for Cancer Metastasis published in Cancer Research
Andrew Davis - alumni
- Paper titled TAp63-regulated microRNAs suppress cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma through inhibition of a network of cell cycle genes published in Cancer Research
Bethanie Gore
- Joined the lab in March as research project specialist
Marco Napoli
- Molecular Oncology Retreat poster award - Moffitt Cancer Center
- Entered into a collaboration with APIS technologies to assess the role of TROLLs as markers of response to chemotherapy - articles available on the "News and Views" page under Publications
- Paper titled Pan-cancer analysis reveals TAp63-regulated oncogenic lncRNAs that promote cancer progression through AKT activation published in Nature Communications
- Promoted to Research Scientist II
2019
Hayley Ackerman
- Cancer Biology & Evolution Symposium poster award - Moffitt Cancer Center
- Molecular Oncology Research-In-Progress Seminar Series Junior Trainee Presentation Award - Moffitt Cancer Center
Ngoc Hoang Bao Bui
- "The tumour cell: Plasticity, Progression and Therapy, Nature conference" poster presentation - New York City, NY
Xiaobo Li
- Molecular Oncology Retreat poster award - Moffitt Cancer Center
- Invited speaker at Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology - Keystone, CO
- Poster presenter at Hallmarks of Cancer Cell Symposium - Seattle, WA
Marco Napoli
- Molecular Oncology Retreat poster award - Moffitt Cancer Center
- Molecular Oncology Research-In-Progress Seminar Series Senior Trainee Presentation Award - Moffitt Cancer Center
- Best oral presentation award at the 3rd annual Cancer Biology and Evolution Symposium - Moffitt Cancer Center
Sarah Wu
- Ph.D defense - MD Anderson Cancer Center
2018
Hayley Ackerman
- Molecular Oncology Research-In-Progress Seminar Series Junior Trainee Presentation Award - Moffitt Cancer Center
- 10X Genomics single cell RNA-sequencing pilot grant
Ngoc Hoang Bao Bui
- Cancer Biology and Evolution Symposium Oral presentation award - Moffitt Cancer Center
- Molecular Oncology Department Retreat Poster Award - Moffitt Cancer Center
- Genetics and Epigenetics Graduate Program Travel Awards, GSBS
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Travel Awards, GSBS
- Ph.D defense - MD Anderson Cancer Center
Andrew Davis
- Molecular Oncology Research-In-Progress presentation award
- 10X Genomics single cell RNA-sequencing pilot grant
- Helmsley Charitable Trust scholar
- Cancer Biology & Evolution poster award - Moffitt Cancer Center
- Ph.D defense - MD Anderson Cancer Center
Ioannis Grammatikakis
- Molecular Oncology Research-In-Progress evaluation excellence award
- 10X Genomics single-cell RNA-sequencing pilot grant
- Best poster award, Molecular Oncology Retreat - Moffitt Cancer Center
Marco Napoli
- "The FEBS Journal" poster prize at 8th International p63/p73 workshop - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- "Let's talk about UBAUT" travel award to attend 8th International p63/p73 workshop - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2017
Andrew Davis
- Cancer Biology & Evolution Poster Award
Marco Napoli, PhD
- Invited speaker at the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation – 2017 Sunshine Project Summit - Tampa, FL
- Invited speaker at the 17th International p53 Workshop - Singapore
2016
Marco Napoli, PhD
- MD Anderson Trainee Research Day 2016, AMGEN Award in Basic Science Research
Sarah Wu
- Genes and Development Graduate Program Travel Award
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Travel Award
Ngoc Hoang Bao Bui
- Andrew Sowell-Wade Huggins Scholarship 2015-2016
2015
Elsa Flores, PhD
- NCI Outstanding Investigator Award
Marco Napoli, PhD
- AACR-Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company Scholar-in-Training Award
Sarah Wu
- Genes and Development Graduate Program Travel Award
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Travel Award
- Trainee Research Day 2015 Poster Competition Finalist, Basic Science
Andrew Davis
- American Legion Auxiliary Fellowship in Cancer Research
- Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) TL1 Pre-doctoral training program
- Genes and Development & EMC 2015 Fall Retreat Research Poster Award - Post-Candidacy Student Category
2014
Avinash Venkatanarayan
- T.C. Hsu Memorial Award for Cell Biology & Genetics
- Grady Saunders Student Research Achievement Award
- G&D Program Post-Candidacy Poster Award
- MD Anderson Trainee Research Day Oral presentation finalist
Andrew Davis
- American Legion Auxiliary Fellowship in Cancer Research
- Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) TL1 Pre-doctoral training program
Ngoc Hoang Bao Bui
- Genes & Development Graduate program pre-candidacy research achievement award
Marco Napoli
- TRIUMPH (Translational Research in Multi disciplinary program) Postdoctoral Fellowship
Hussein Abbas
- Odyssey Recruitment Fellowship
Sarah Wu
- T32 Training Program in Molecular Genetics of Cancer Pre-doctoral Fellow (T32 CA009299)
- Schissler Foundation Fellow for Translational Studies of Common Human Diseases
- Pre-candidacy Student Research Poster Award, GSBS Genes and Development Program Retreat
- Cullen Trust for Higher Education Physician/Scientist Fellowship Program: 2010 – 2014
2013
Elsa Flores
- "Session Chair" – Non-Coding RNAs and roles in cancer 2013 American Association for Cancer Research, Washington D.C.
Sarah Wu
- AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science Recipient
Deepavali Chakravarti
- "Oral Presentation" at the 2013 American Association for Cancer Research, Washington D.C.
- "Scholar in Training Award" 2013 American Association for Cancer Research, Washington D.C
- Successfully completed "Ph.D. Dissertation" in May 2013
Avinash Venkatanarayan
- "Oral Presentation" at the 2013 American Association for Cancer Research, Washington D.C.
- UT MD Anderson Press Release about the research talk at 2013 AACR Meeting
- Study finds key to calling back-up help when tumor-fighter p53 goes down
Awards
- Travel Award from Sea Horse Biosciences to attend 2013 AACR Meeting
- UT Graduate School Travel Award
- Genes & Development Graduate Program Travel Award
- Andrew Sowell - Wade Huggins Scholar in Cancer Research
- MD Anderson Trainee Excellence Award
- BMB Dept. Trainee Research Award- Presentation
Andrew Davis
- Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Ramon Flores Gonzalez
- Health Supplement to promote diversity in Health Related Research 2013-2015
2012
Deepavali Chakravarti
- UT MD Anderson President's Research Scholarship Award
- "Poster Presentation Award" at the Institute of Basic Science retreat
Avinash Venkatanarayan
- Schissler Foundation Fellow in Genetics of Human Disease
2011
Elsa Flores
- Key note address: p63/P73 Workshop in Lyon, France
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Scholar
- UT STARS Award
- CPRIT Grant to study p63 regulation of miRNAs in breast cancer
Xiaohua Su
- Oral presentation at the p63/p73 Workshop in France
- Travel Award from Seahorse Biosciences to attend the p63/p73 Workshop in France.
Deepavali Chakravarti
Fellowships Awarded
- T.C Hsu Memorial Fellowship
- Graduate School Travel Award
- CPRIT Fellowship Award
- Schissler Fellowship Award
- Oral presentation at the p63/p73 Workshop in France
- "Best Oral presentation Award" Cancer Biology Retreat-2011
Avinash Venkatanarayan
- Awarded the "Best Poster Award-Pre-Candidacy" in the Genes & Development Retreat-2011.