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Makowski lab graduate student Mehdi Chaib has published “PKC agonism restricts innate immune suppression, promotes antigen cross-presentation and synergizes with agonistic CD40 antibody therapy to activate CD8 + T cells in breast cancer” in Cancer Letters (here). Congratulations Mehdi! Highlights: •PKC agonism suppresses murine breast cancer tumor growth in vivo. •PKC agonism impairs MDSC expansion, trafficking, and suppressive… Read More

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.

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! 

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 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!