Year: 2021


Laura Sipe awarded F32 NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)

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Dr. Sipe, a postdoctoral fellow in the Makowski Lab, was awarded an F32 postdoctoral fellowship award from the NCI entitled “The role of bile acids to ameliorate obesity driven triple negative breast cancer.” Congratulations Laura! We are so proud.

Medhi Chaib invited to speak at AACR2021

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Makowski lab graduate student @MehdiChaib was invited to give an oral presentation and poster on his project about reprogramming the immunosuppressive microenvironment in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) in the Mini symposia session Identifying the puppet master cells that orchestrate the tumor microenvironment at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2021 annual meeting. Congrats Mehdi! 

Laura Sipe presenting AACR-funded project on identifying genetic modifiers of TNBC

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Makowski lab postdoctoral fellow Dr. Laura Sipe @LauraSipe3 presented her poster on using the BXD recombinant inbred model to identify genetic modifiers of triple negative breast cancer at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2021 annual meeting. Congrats Laura! 

Mehdi Chaib invited to speak Keystone eSymposia.

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Mehdi Chiab, graduate student in the Makowski lab, was awarded a registration stipend and was invited to give a small talk at the prestigious Keystone Symposia – Myeloid Cells and Innate Immunity in Solid Tumors in Sept of 2020 (virtually due to COVID). He was grateful to meet many leaders in the field through 1:1… Read More

Bon Voyage Ajeeth

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Makowski Lab said goodbye to Ajeeth in a socially distant picnic in Health Sciences Park in October 2020. Good luck in Beantown!