Alumni Spotlight
Congratulations Daphne Han, 2023 CPRIT CURE alumni, who presented at this year's CPRIT conference in Galveston on her summer research "Exploration of Fragmentomics for Monitoring Progression in Neurofibromatosis Patients."
Loraine Gigi on her recent co-authorship of "CHD1, a multifaceted epigenetic remodeler in prostate cancer" with her mentor, Dr. Di Zhao.
Loraine was a 2022 CURE undergraduate trainee, with the Zhao Lab, in the Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX)
Alumni Accomplishments
By the Numbers
6 Post-bacs @ NIH
12 Goldwater Scholars
3 Goldwater Honorable mentions
1 NCI research fellows
2 Fulbright Scholars
2 Fulbright Research Grants
5 NSF grantee/Fellowships
2 Patents
1 HHMI Summer Scholar
3 AMGEN Scholars
5 T32 Awardees
1 CPRIT Grad Scholar
2 NIH Internships
1 NIH other award
1 NIH undergrad award
1 Rhodes Scholarship Finalist
246 Publications since CPRIT summer research training in top journals such as:
- Cell 2
- Lancet 1
- JAMA Oncology 1
- Journal of American Chem Soc 1
- Journal of Clinical Oncology 2
- Nature 4
- Nature Cancer 1
- Nature Communications 4
- Nature Materials 1
- Nature Medicine 2
121 First and/or Co-First Author publications of Alumni:
- Lancet 1
- Nature 4
- Nature Cancer 1
- Nature Communications 5
- Nature Genetics 1
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1