It finally feels a bit like spring around here! It sure did not feel that way on Wednesday night, when Harriet and I went to see the Phillies play the Nationals at Nationals Park. We saw Roy Halladay pitch and win an exciting game. The park was only half full, and most of the fans wore Phillies gear, so we felt as if we were home—if home is in the Twilight Zone.
I want to use this week’s blog to celebrate some of the research accomplishments of our trainees and faculty. First of all, I thought that last week’s Research Day was an absolutely spectacular success. I wasn’t able to see all of the posters, but the ones I reviewed were really terrific.
We are lucky to have so many talented students and postdoctoral fellows here. One of the wonderful attributes of Georgetown Lombardi is the wealth of talent at the student and postdoc level. When I worked in Philadelphia at a freestanding cancer center, we relied solely on postdocs, and I didn’t know what I was missing by not having students in the lab.
Congratulations to the award winners: Anne Deslattes Mays; Tytus Mak; Tiernan Mulrooney; Elspeth Beauchamp; Antoinette Cordova; Rebecca Nakles; Jordan Woodrick; Maram Al-Otaiby; Tabari Baker; Christopher Chien; Tejaswita Karve; Katherine Cook; Edgar Diaz Cruz; Geeta Upadhyay; Joseph Murray; David Solomon; Rishi Surana.
I can assure you that they were most deserving, but all of the work was outstanding.
For those of you who want to explore the wonderful work being done in more depth, Tabari Baker has led the charge to organize several mini-Research Day sessions, where we can go over the posters with the presenters, and enjoy some refreshments to boot.
These sessions are scheduled for: April 25 at 5 pm (posters on the 5th floor); May 2 at 5 pm (posters on the 4th floor) and May 17 at 5 pm (posters on the 3rd floor). Contact Tabari at tmb45@georgetown.edu for more information.
Just today, Peter Shields announced the names and projects of Georgetown Lombardi scientists who have been awarded CCSB U54, CCSG and ACS seed grants to support their research. These include: Roxanne Jensen, Lixin Mi, Ayesha Shajahan; Aykut Uren; John Deeken; Kristi Graves; Arnold Potosky; Ryan McAllister; Anna Riegel; Rabindra Roy; Siva Dakshanamurthy; Yun-Ling Zheng; Xuefeng Liu; Mary Beth Martin; and Ronit Yarden.
More information about the winners and their projects can be found here.
We had a wonderful response to the RFA, and I look forward to exciting results from these scientists over the next year (and much future peer-reviewed funding too!).
Remember, the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer is on April 30-May 1. The Georgetown Lombardi/CBCC team has raised nearly $62,000 and is now in third place among all teams that are participating (still beating Hopkins!). The team still needs help raising funds to meet its goal.
If you can, and have not yet contributed to the cause, please do so – every small donation is welcome. Donations can be made to the team using this link and the team still needs cheerers, medical volunteers and any other support you can provide.
Please help!
Have a great weekend.