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Margaret “Maggie” Bohm received a $500 travel award from UTHSC College of Graduate Health Sciences (for the Society of Immunotherapy (SITC) in San Diego, CA, 2023)

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Margaret “Maggie” Bohm received the Alma and Hal Reagan Fellowship from UTHSC College of Graduate Health Sciences for a portion of her stipend, $13,000 (Nov 2022 – Oct 2023)

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Margaret “Maggie” Bohm received a 500$ travel award from UTHSC College of Graduate Health Sciences (for Bioactive Lipids Meeting, New Orleans, Oct 2022)

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Margaret “Maggie” Bohm was selected to give a lightening talk at the 17th International Conference on Bioactive Lipids in Cancer, Inflammation and Related Diseases New Orleans, Oct 2022

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Congratulations to Dr. Mehdi Chaib for Makowski Lab’s recent publication in Science Advances on PKCdelta in monocytes in cancer immunotherapy

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Congrats to Mehdi, my former graduate student, on his last paper from this doctoral thesis recently published in Science Advances. It took a great team to complete this important body of work demonstrating that protein kinase C delta regulates mononuclear phagocytes and hinders response to immunotherapy in cancer. Here is the PubMed link. Great job… Read More

Happy 2024! Great news, we are hiring!

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Please apply https://ut.taleo.net/careersection/uthsc_post-docs/jobdetail.ftl?job=230000027X&tz=GMT-06%3A00&tzname=America%2FChicago

Congrats to Makowski lab for 3 Million dollar award from the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research entitled “Inflammatory Drivers of The Obesity-Cancer Connection”

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We are hiring for our newly funded NCI U01 to study obesity, protective immunity, and breast cancer risk.

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Come work with us! Link to posting here.

We can’t wait to work with NCI’s Metabolic Dysregulation and Cancer Risk Program: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Obesity-Associated Cancer Research program.

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Very excited to conduct this work on my project entitled Determining the Contribution of Microbial-Derived Metabolites to Protective Immunity in Obesity-Driven Cancer Risk with MPIs Jeff Rathmell and Joseph Pierre, and many other collaborators. This is a dream project! These studies will increase understanding of obesity-associated cancer risk and point to potential interventions to alleviate… Read More

Check out our new paper led by Dr. Laura Sipe, PhD in eLife on immunotherapy response in pre-clinical models of breast cancer after bariatric surgery

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Response to immune checkpoint blockade improved in pre-clinical model of breast cancer after bariatric surgery. Link HERE