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We are excited to share that Dr. Despina Siolas has been awarded a 2025 Pilot Grant from the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI) and the Weill Cornell Medicine Meyer Cancer Center. This competitive funding supports her innovative project titled “Gut microbiota control of immune suppression in colorectal cancer liver metastases” and features collaborations with Dr. Manish Shah and Dr. Greg Sonnenberg. This work aims to explore how microbial...

Blackburns and Dr Siolas at hockey game
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of...

Blackburns and Dr Siolas speak at NYITCOMClinical Practice Reflections: It's Okay to React – A Police Detective's Incredible Journey with Pancreatic Cancer was a powerful and deeply moving event...

Conor Buckley to UCLA

We are thrilled to congratulate Siolas Lab member, Dr. Conor Buckley on his acceptance into a Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive...

Dr. Siolas and her lab team at the CR&T Gala

On November 21, 2024 Dr. Siolas attended the 2024 Cancer Survivors Hall of Fame Dinner and was awarded a grant by the Cancer Research & Treatment Fund, INC....

Bioss Winner
Siolas Lab member Mayar Abdelalim has recently won the 2024 July Summer Grant held by Bioss Antibodies! Her abstract was considered among multiple other submissions to be most deserving of a $1000 dollar grant which will to go to future...

Mayar & Nora receiving their certificate of completion

Mayar Abdelalim and Nora Rahimian have completed their Summer Internship with the Meyer Cancer Center & Englander...

Eddie Blackburn & the Siolas Lab
The Siolas Lab has recently met with Edward Blackburn and his family. Eddie was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer in 2019 which has a less than 1% overall 5...

Nora
Congratulations to Siolas Lab volunteer Nora Rahimian has been offered to participate in the John P. McNulty Scholars Program for Leadership in Science and Math at Hunter College!...

Mayar
Congratualtions to lab volunteer Mayar Abdelalim for being chosen as a Raab Presidential Summer Research Fellow for 2024!

The Raab Fellowship makes possible special student opportunities under faculty...

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