Nam, Tamimi and Ligon Earn Research Awards at Inaugural Cancer Research Center Retreat
More than 150 people attended and presented more than 60 posters during the inaugural retreat for the BWH-Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) Cancer Research Center in October. Following the presentations, Jon Aster, MD, PhD, and David Sugarbaker, MD, co-chairs of the BWH-BRI Cancer Research Center, announced three winners, based on the novelty and significance of their poster topic and their presentation at the poster session.
Yunsun Nam, PhD, won first place for “Mechanistic and Structural Origin of Cooperativity in Transcriptional Activation by Notch Receptors.” Rulla Tamimi, ScD, placed second for “Endogenous Hormone Levels, Mammographic Density, and Subsequent Risk of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women,” and Keith Ligon, MD, PhD, won third place for “Olig2 is Required for Growth of Neural Progenitor Cells and Malignant Glioma.”
“This event was a great opportunity for the cancer community at BWH to come together and share their stories and interests,” Jon Aster, co-chair of the BRI Cancer Research Center, said. “The presentations and posters demonstrated the breadth and depth of cancer research at BWH, which ranges from work on basic disease mechanisms and cancer risk to new approaches to cancer diagnosis and therapy – work that literally goes from bench to bedside. It is our hope that this event and others like it will foster new, cutting-edge interdisciplinary cancer research at BWH.”