Lung Cancer Metabolism Working Group: News

2024

• Elsa Flores, PhD is awarded FBRP/Florida Cancer Innovation Fund.
• Florian Karreth, PhD is awarded NIH/NCI R21.
• Gina DeNicola, PhD receives Research Educator of the Year Award at the annual Faculty Appreciation and Recognition Ceremony.
• Florian Karreth, PhD is awarded ACS-RSG Supplement.

2023

• Paul Stewart, PhD is invited to serve on the US HUPO Advisory Board.
• Moffitt Research Education & Training office hosts a lecture, “Strategies to reprogram myeloid cell-mediated immune suppression in cancer hosts,” and reception for Paulo Rodriguez, PhD, recipient of the Researcher of the Year Award for 2022.
• Xiaoqing Yu, PhD awarded Faculty Member of the Year at the 2023 BBSR Annual Awards.
• Janine DeBlasi, PhD (DeNicola Lab) successfully defends her Doctoral Dissertation “Distinct NRF2 Signaling Thresholds Mediate Lung Tumor Initiation and Progression.”
• John Cleveland, PhD joins the AACR Cancer Centers Alliance Steering Committee as Subgroup Chair: Basic and Translational Research.
• Chang Jiang, PhD (DeNicola Lab) promoted to Faculty in the Department of Molecular Oncology.
• Paulo Rodriguez, PhD is appointed Chair, Department of Immunology  & Co-Leader, Immuno-Oncology Program.
• Nathan Ward, PhD (DeNicola Lab) promoted to Faculty in the Department of Metabolism and Physiology.
• Gina DeNicola, PhD is appointed Leader of the Developing Metabolism Program.
• EAB Retreat hosted by group at Armature Works in January 2023.

2022

• Elsa Flores, PhD is appointed Associate Center Director, Basic Science
• Paulo Rodriguez, PhD receives W. Jackson Pledger Researcher of the Year Award.
• Brooke Fridley, PhD is awarded the first R01 equivalent.
• P01 Workshop hosted at the Epicurean Hotel in September 2022.

2020

• Laura Torrente Fernandez, PhD (DeNicola Lab) was a finalist in the Moffitt Distinguished Lecturer Symposium speaking competition.
• The Molecular Oncology Department had its annual retreat at the Lowry Park Zoo. Nicolas Prieto (DeNicola Lab) and Marco Napoli, PhD (Flores Lab) won awards for their posters.
• Yun Pyo Kang, PhD (DeNicola Lab) had a featured poster at the Virtual Moffitt Annual Symposium.
• John Cleveland, PhD was selected as Moffitt’s Executive Vice President and Center Director.
• Eric Haura, PhD was appointed Associate Center Director, Clinical Science.
• Laura Torrente Fernandez, Paloma Gonzalez Sanchez, and Chang Jiang, all postdoctoral fellows from the DeNicola Lab, were awarded Women in Research Grants from Cayman Chemical.
• The DeNicola Lab was awarded a MPI R01 from the NIDDK with their collaborator Ed Schmidt at Montana State University.
• The DeNicola Lab was awarded a Moffitt-AdventHealth Consortium (MAC) award with their collaborator Steve Gardell at AdventHealth.
• Jay Lockhart, PhD (Flores Lab) gave a virtual poster presentation entitled “Spatial genomics coupled with machine learning to identify p53-driven molecular signatures that are predictive of lung adenocarcinoma progression” at the AACR Tumor Heterogeneity conference.
• P01 grant application entitled "Identifying Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Lung Cancer" was resubmitted for review to the NIH.

2019

• Chang Jiang, PhD and Laura Torrente Fernandez, PhD (DeNicola Lab) received Travel Grants from Cayman Chemical to attend the AACR annual meeting.
• At the Cancer Biology and Evolution Symposium, Hayley Ackerman, PhD (Flores Lab) won a poster award and Marco Napoli, PhD (Flores Lab) won best oral presentation.
• Yun Pyo Kang, PhD (DeNicola Lab) received the AACR-Takeda Oncology Lung Cancer Research Fellowship.
• Laura Torrente Fernandez, PhD (DeNicola Lab) was awarded best presentation at the Molecular Oncology Department Retreat.
• Marco Napoli, PhD (Flores Lab) and Yun Pyo Kang, PhD (DeNicola Lab) received poster awards at the Molecular Oncology Department Retreat.
• Gina DeNicola, PhD attended the Keystone Metabolism meeting and chaired the "Metabolism of ROS and survival" session.
• The DeNicola Lab was awarded a Bankhead Coley grant from the State of Florida.
• Hayley Ackerman, PhD and Marco Napoli, PhD (Flores Lab) selected for Molecular Oncology Research-In-Progress Seminar Series Junior Trainee Presentation Awards.
• P01 grant application entitled "Identifying Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Lung Cancer" submitted for review to the NIH.

2018

• Andrew Davis, PhD and Hayley Ackerman, PhD (Flores Lab) were awarded best presentation by a junior member at the Molecular Oncology Research-In-Progress Seminar Series (RIP).
• Andrew Davis, PhD (Flores Lab) was awarded the Helmsley Scholarship to attend the Computational Genomics Course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories.
• Florian Karreth, PhD received a Melanoma Research Foundation Mucosal Melanoma Career Development Award.
• The Flores Lab was awarded a pilot grant from 10X Genomics to apply single cell RNA-seq to their studies of the p53 family in lung adenocarcinoma.
• The DeNicola Lab was awarded an innovation award from the Cancer Biology and Evolution program. 
• Nate Ward (DeNicola Lab) won a poster prize at the Molecular Oncology departmental retreat.
• The DeNicola Lab was awarded an R37 MERIT award from the NCI.