Congratulations to PhD students Dahee Jung, Xiaoying Cai and Monica Haughan for winning the University of Illinois Cancer Center Cancer Science Prizes for their posters during the 15th Annual Research Day at the Retzky College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC).
Research Day brings together trainees, alumni, faculty members and staff, as well as industry and academic colleagues from the Chicagoland area.
Jung and Cai are part of the lab of Cancer Center member Steve Seung-Young Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the College of Pharmacy. Haughan is part of the lab of Joanna Burdette, PhD, co-leader of the Cancer Center’s Cancer Biology Research Program and the Edward and Josephine Mika Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the College of Pharmacy.
Jung and Cai earned the first-place $500 Cancer Science Prize for their poster, “Engineered Anti-CD40 Agonistic Antibody as a Novel Cancer Neoantigen Vaccines.” Poster authors included Lee and others from Purdue University.
Haughan earned the second-place $250 Cancer Science Prize for her poster, “Adrenergic Signaling in Adipocytes Drives Ovarian Cancer Cell Invasion.” Poster authors included Burdette and others the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago and the University of Iowa Health Care Carver College of Medicine.