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Awards and Accolades
2026: Alesandra Echeandía Marrero was a Norman G. Pauling Fellowship award recipient
2026: Allen Shen's poster won 3rd place at the Cancer Neuroscience Program Scientific Retreat
2026: Khalil Kasm's poster won 3rd place at the Cancer Neuroscience Program Scientific Retreat
2026: Allen Shen was named a student representative for the GSBS Cancer Biology Program
2026: Khalil Kasm was selected as the CNP Trainee of the Year for Basic/Translational Research
2026: Anand Singh won top neurotoxicity poster at the 2026 International Cancer Neuroscience Symposium
2026: Allen Shen received the John & Charlene Kopchick Fellowship from UTHealth Houston and UT MD Anderson
2025 and 2026: Khalil Kasm won the 2026 Trainee Peer-to-Peer Research Excellence in Mentorship Award
2025: Alesandra Echeandía Marrero was selected as a student representative to the GSBS Neuroscience Program
2025: Ella Zhou won 3rd place at the UTHealth Neuroscience poster session
2025: Allen Shen received a Dee S. and Patricia Osborne Endowed Scholarship in support of his research
2025: Allen Shen took 2nd place at the GSBS Neuroscience Program Symposium
2025: Anand Singh & Khalil Kasm, 1st (neurotoxicity) & 3rd (neurobiology) place at CNP Scientific Retreat
2025: Allen Shen's poster placed 2nd in the neurobiology category, at the CNP Scientific Retreat
2025: Aishani Gargapati after her white coat ceremony at medical school. Congratulations, Aishani!
2025: Valeria won 1st place for neurosurgical oncology at XXVIII Congreso Mexicano de Cirugía Neurológica
2025: Allen Shen was awarded the 2025-2026 Rosalie B. Hite Fellowship by the Student Scholarship Committee
2025: Khalil Kasm received the Children's Tumor Foundation Young Investigator Award
2025: Anand Singh won the Cyrus Award in Basic Science at the Internal Medicine Research Retreat
2025: Allen Shen received a Cancer Biology Program travel award to attend the CSHL brain tumor meeting
2025: Madeline Ansley received a travel award from Rice University to present at AACR 2025 in Chicago
2025: Allen Shen's flash talk won 1st place at the Graduate School Cancer Biology Program Spring Symposium
2025: Khalil Kasm (center) won a Top 5 Award for his talk at the 2025 Gulf Coast Consortia pain conference
2025: Khalil Kasm's flash talk won Best Presentation at the UT MD Anderson Education Week competition
2024: Madeline Ansley won first prize at the UTHealth 30th Annual Neuroscience Symposium
2024: Khalil Kasm received the Daniel Benedict Gazan Award in Sarcoma Research Excellence Award
2024: Aishani Gargapati graduated from Rice and won a Distinction in Research (Neuroscience) award
2024: Alesandra Echeandía Marrero was awarded an NIH T-32 training grant
2024: Aishani Gargapati was accepted into the NCI Cancer Research Interns Summer Program
2024: Ava Hamblett was awarded a summer internship in the Impurity Assays Group at Pfizer in Bothell, WA
2024: Khalil Kasm won the best poster award at the Trainee Research Day
2024: Anand Singh was a finalist for the Best Poster Award, Division of Internal Medicine Retreat
2026
NINDS award (R01) to study how neuron-glioma synaptic communication is regulated by acid-sensing mechanisms
2025
NCI Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) award (R37) to support the study of cancer neuroscience in peripheral nerve tumors
2024
Andrew Sabin Family Foundation award
Kleberg Foundation award to study how chemotherapy influences cognition (chemobrain)
2023
US Department of Defense (DOD) award to study cancer neuroscience in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1)-associated gliomas
DOD award to study the effects of diet on cognitive function in NF1
2022
Gilbert Family Foundation Vision Restoration Initiative award to investigate optic nerve oligodendroglial dynamics and myelination in NF1
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Recruitment of First-Time, Tenure-Track Faculty Members Award
The University of Texas Rising STARS Award
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Young Investigator Award
Research by Dr. Pan and colleagues was spotlighted in the June 2024 issue of Medical Xpress, an online source that tracks scientific developments worldwide. The research, published originally in Nature Neuroscience, provides strong evidence that neurofibromatosis type 1 mutations delay the development of oligodendroglia, leading to disruptions in motor learning.