Making Connections

Second-year PhD student, Alicia Barber, is now a contributing writer for Being Patient, an editorially independent news, health, and science site focusing on Alzheimer’s and dementia. Alicia will be publishing articles on a range of topics including interviews with early-stage patients and dementia experts, summaries of new research and scientific concepts, and reports on the U.S. health care system, end of life care, and the impact of COVID-19. 

On Tuesday, January 14th 2020, The Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) hosted its annual Scientific Retreat and Jordan won “2020 Best Poster”! She presented her poster, entitled, ‘A novel estrogen receptor beta agonist has anti-tumor effects on xenografts derived from freshly resected glioma patients’ (authors: Jordan F. Isaacs, Divya Ravi, Sidney Nguyen, Carmen L. Del Genio, Laura M. Price, Thomas B. Burris, Glenn C. Micalizio, and Arti B. Gaur) Special thanks to Divya Ravi who contributed equally towards the generation of this poster. Stay tuned to see the data featured on this poster in our future publications.

The NCCC Scientific Retreat featured two keynote speakers: 1) Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, MD, PhD, director of the David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and 2) Samuel Achilefu, PhD, FRSC, director of the Optical Radiology Lab at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Dr. Arti Gaur wins the 2019 ‘Celebration of Biomedical Research at Dartmouth (CBraD)’ award! Dr. Gaur was nominated for the award by her students who wrote recommendation letters about her incredible mentorship.