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
Makowski Lab said goodbye to Ajeeth in a socially distant picnic in Health Sciences Park in October 2020. Good luck in Beantown!
Press Release HERE UTHSC Researchers Collaborate on $2 Million Grant To Study Immune System and Triple Negative Breast Cancer Written by Communications and Marketing | September 2, 2020 Dr. Liza Makowski Liza Makowski, PhD, a professor in the Department of Medicine-Hematology-Oncology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and Joseph F. Pierre, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department… Read More
Emily has worked in the Makowski lab for 2 years! Thank you so much for all of your contributions! Happy graduation and we wish you success in medical school!
Makowski lab is proud to announce that postdoctoral fellow Dr. Laura Sipe was awarded a 3 year 2020 AACR-Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation Fellowship for a project entitled “Novel pre-clinical model to identify genetic modifiers of TNBC.” Fantastic news Laura!
Jared Clements, first year medical student at UTHSC, was awarded a 2019 UTHSC/West Cancer Clinic Summer Cancer Research fellowship for his project entitled “Metabolic Reprogramming to Improve Triple Negative Breast Cancer Outcome.” Congratulations Jared!
Read our new paper on glucose transporter GLUT1 in macrophage metabolism and atherosclerosis. Link here to Journal of Immunology
Yummy lunch at Global Cafe to celebrate Arati! Congratulations!
Laura presented in the Obesity and Cancer Section/Susan G. Komen Challenge Symposium at the 2018 ObesityWeek meeting. As a winner she will present the results of her pilot studies at the 2019 ObesityWeek meeting in Las Vegas, NV, within a session devoted to results from the Susan G. Komen® Breast Cancer Challenge.
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