Day 2 at #AACRPan25 was a blast! Enjoyed a fantastic lunch with the Ruscetti and Pitarresi lab peeps, followed by an inspiring session at the poster presentations. Bringing home new ideas and connections. Can't wait for Day 3!

Congrats to postdoc Nikita Bhalerao, PhD for being awarded an AACR Scholar-in-Training award for this year's #AACRPan25 conference. Be sure to check out her poster # B049 today from 6-9pm!

Congrats to graduate student Boyang Ma for his poster being chosen for an oral presentation during the last plenary session at #AACRPan25! Thanks to the organizers for giving Boyang this opportunity. He is doing cool work at the interface of CAF, senescence, and RAS biology.

.UMass Chan Medical School has received a five-year, $4.4M grant from National Cancer Institute to study how transfer RNAs may drive the spread of melanoma: direc.to/nJe2 Richard I. Gregory, PhD, is collaborating with RNA researchers at BIDMC and Brown University. #CancerResearch #melanoma

To honor her late mother, PhD candidate Jessica Peura is studying how pancreatic cancer spreads. With an NIH fellowship, she developed a faster, more accurate research model to study metastasis at UMass Chan Medical School. #CancerResearch umassmed.edu/news/news-arch…

Tregs for the win!

A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, PhD, and Travis E. Faust, PhD, published in Cell explains how different cell types in the brain communicate in response to changes in sensory input to the connections between neurons: direc.to/nJHE SchaferLabUMassChan Travis Faust

Great talk Calvin!

Now online in Cancer Discovery: p21-Positive Senescent Stromal Cells Promote Prostate Cancer Immune Suppression and Progression that Can Be Reversed by Senolytic Therapy - by Lin Zhou, Marcus Ruscetti Lab, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159-8… UMass Chan Medical School