Congratulations to our PhD student for their recents awards! 🥳 Emily Feng was awarded a CSI Travel Award and the MIRC Travel Award! Ana Portillo was awarded the W.E. Rawls Memorial Scholarship and the Alyssa Vito Scholarship in Cancer Research! 👏

Registration is now open for CanNKC 2024 Symposium! You won’t want to miss the trainee talks or this fantastic lineup of keynote speakers! @sarah_crome David Raulet and Mary Carrington 2024cannkcsymposium.rsvpify.com

Our latest review is now available at Immunological Reviews! We discuss how "Metabolic adaptations determine whether natural killer cells fail or thrive within the tumor microenvironment". Congrats to co-first authors Adnan Moinuddin, Sophie Poznanski, and Ana Portillo!

Early bird deadline is April 1! Don’t forget to register using code CAN-NKC2024 for $50 off!

Exciting to be helping organize our 2nd annual conference again this year! Our early bird registration closes soon, if you’re interested in NK cell and ILC research join us!!

#Budget2024 💰 makes the largest investment in 20+ years for grad students & postdocs! It will support financial needs, boost mental well-being, allow focus on research, & promote diversity by easing barriers for underrepresented groups. 🎉💪🏽#SOSBudget2024

Enjoying the slopes before some science! See you at #CSI2024 Canadian Society for Immunology

Thank you to the organizers for planning another amazing CSI conference! And thank you to Centre for Discovery in Cancer Research for providing me with a travel award to attend! #CSI2024

A reminder to say hello today! Maybe even ask someone how they’re doing. A greeting goes a long way to make folks feel included ♥️

A research team led by Dr. Sam Workenhe in the Dept OVC Pathobiology explored harnessing an “explosive” kind of cancer cell death as a potential therapy for hard-to-treat cancers. Their study, published by Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, is described further in this article: bit.ly/4bvbGTJ

Our PhD students were awarded McMaster Health Sciences Plenary Awards! Congratulations to Emily Feng for an Outstanding Achievement Award and to Liz Balint and Ana Portillo for Publication Awards!

Congratulations to Caitlin Mullarkey (@dr_mullarkey), associate professor McMaster Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences, on receiving an Award of Excellence from Ontario Government ON Colleges, Universities, Research & Security. The award is in recognition of her outstanding leadership of the BBS Summer Scholars Program. ow.ly/PTun50RIQi6

Congrats to Dr Sheila Singh, co-recipient of the Canadian Cancer Society Robert L. Noble Prize! This award is given to individuals with outstanding achievements in basic biomedical cancer research.

Karen Mossman receiving the ICIS Honorary Lifetime Award from President ⁦@slg1717⁩ at #cytokines2024 in beautiful Seoul

Enjoying #Cytokines2024 and explore the beautiful city of Seoul! Liz Balint Emily Feng Ana Portillo

While CD56 expression could be used to indicate a hyper-functional state of NK cells, it does not directly influence the anti-tumor functions of expanded NK cells Journal of Leukocyte Biology Congrats, Ana Portillo! Ashkar Lab doi.org/10.1093/jleuko…

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Cell therapy with human IL-10-producing ILC2s limits xenogeneic graft-versus-host disease by inhibiting pathogenic T cell responses cell.com/cell-reports/f… Cell Reports @sarah_crome

We are thrilled to announce that our study investigating the impact of oral cannabis consumption on pregnancy outcomes and fetal development is now published at eBioMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science part of Lancet Discovery Science ! This work was led by our talented previous student, Tyrah Ritchie!✨

More people are turning to cannabidiol (CBD) cannabis strains to help with the side-effects of pregnancy. A new study from McMaster University has uncovered the potential risks, which includes impaired fetal growth. Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research CIHR CFI / FCI ow.ly/BLHM50UV44z