POSTER SESSION WINNERS

The Case CCC Scientific Retreat featured 66 scientific poster presentations by Cancer Center students, trainees, postdocs and fellows. Congratulations to the top poster winners:

First Place

Jennifer Eads, MD
Education level but not race is associated with clinical trials barriers

Susan Foy
Multifunctional Magnetic Nanoparticles for Imaging and Drug Delivery

Kumar Sukhdeo
Lgr5+ stem-like cells contribute to colorectal cancer chemoresistance

Munir Tanas, PhD
Identification of a Disease-defining WWTR1/CAMTA1 Gene Fusion in Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma

Michael Wendt, PhD
Downregulation of epithelial cadherin is required to initiate metastatic outgrowth of breast cancer

Second Place

Amar Desai
The Role of Exo1 in DNA Mismatch and Double Strand Break Repair: Implications for Improved Radiotherapy in Cancer

Liraz Levi
Suppression of mammary carcinoma cell growth by inhibition of FABP5

Blanka Sharma
Nanoparticle-Mediated p53 Gene Delivery for Tumor Inhibition

Steve Sizemore, PhD
FOXC1 is required for basal breast cancer viability and promotes invasion through MMP expression