Congratulations to Logan Campbell for the successful defense of his BME MS thesis yesterday! Logan presented his outstanding work on the design of kinase-stabilized suicide gene therapies for cancer. Virginia BME

Great showing by the lab at the Commonwealth of Virginia Cancer Research Conference yesterday at UVA Darden. Thanks to Sarah Lee, Sarah Buchanan, Michelle Barbeau, and Karl Kowalewski for presenting such nice talks!

Lazzara Lab BMES 2023 — Congrats to REU student Amanda Pearson for her outstanding presentation on KRas inhibitors in pancreas cancer! Congrats to postdoc Varghese Kurian and PhD student Michelle Barbeau for the presentation of their work on process control models of EMT!

Lab members Michelle Barbeau and Karl Kowalewski are having a great time and learning a lot at the AACR pancreas cancer meeting in Boston. They presented their excellent work on EMT regulation in PDAC.

Sarah Lee did a great job presenting her work on moving-boundary models of EGFR endocytic signaling at the recent Thornton Society dinner, in support of UVA Engineering.

In a #NCICSBC Investigator Highlight, Dr. Doug Lauffenburger shares his views on cancer #SystemsBiology and discusses his work investigating mechanisms of #TreatmentResistance in cancer: cancer.gov/about-nci/orga…

Thanks to everyone who participated to make the UVA Chemical Engineering research retreat at Wintergreen Resort a great success!

Congratulations to Lazzara Lab member Sung Hyun Lee for bringing home the Peterson Award for Best Poster Presentation from the 2022 ACS BIOT meeting in San Diego!

Lazzara Lab members voyaged to Richmond for a Summer 2023 outing -- Top Golf and Vietnamese dinner was a great combo!

Congratulations to lab alumnus Paul Myers, who was recently awarded the Louis T. Rader Award in Chemical Engineering!
engineering.virginia.edu/2023-cheme-gra…

Congratulations to Lazzara Lab and UVA_BIMS 🔬🥽🎓 PhD student Michelle Barbeau, who received Notice of Award today on her NIH/NCI F31 -- 'Assessing the Transcriptional and Signaling Basis of Heterogeneity in the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma'!

Sarah Lee doing a great job explaining her work at the FASEB Protein Phosphorylation Meeting in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Welcome to Mariah Snelson (Johns Hopkins) and Amanda Pearson (VCU), who are joining us via the UVA Multiscale Systems Bioengineering REU Program (engineering.virginia.edu/systems-bioeng…). We started things off right with breakfast at Farm Bell and a primer on image analysis.

Congratulations to recently graduated Lazzara Lab undergraduate alumni Ailene Edwards and Anupama Jayaraman, who gave outstanding final research presentations! Ailene also presented her work on tumor bioprinting at the BME Capstone event and fielded questions from Jennifer L. West.

Congratulations to recently hooded Lazzara Lab PhD alumni Dr. Brooke Brown and Dr. Paul Myers!

Meeting alert! For junior investigators across experimental and systems biology, physical science and #DataScience , and computational modelers who build and apply novel tools to better understand #cancer .
Registration is free: events.cancer.gov/dcb/ji-meeting

Every semester, we use our final group meeting for undergraduate research presentations. As always, this week's talks were amazing. Congratulations and thank you to all our undergraduate researchers and their mentors!

Using #systemsapproaches , Janes Lab, Lazzara Lab, et al. sasco.virginia #NCICSBC are investigating subcellular adaptations that take place to subvert stresses that occur in response to cancer-causing #mutations . cancer.gov/about-nci/orga…

👏Congratulations to sasco.virginia Lazzara Lab Janes Lab @kristen_naegle Papin Lab Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani Caliari Lab Bryan Berger Cheryl Borgman

Good show, Virginia BME 🏆

Check out our new paper using agent-based models to predict patterning in multi-cell spheroids. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…
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