Category: Cancer Biology Highlights

Stephanie Markovina, MD, PhD, was granted tenure by the WashU Board of Trustees in their December, 2024 meeting.

Dennis Hallahan, MD, FASTRO, and Abhay Singh, PhD have been awarded a grant from the Needleman Program for Innovation & Commercialization for $328,340. Their work is entitled “Bispecific T Cell effectors targeting an inducible cancer cell surface antigen”.

The event honored recipients of their first R01 research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Radiation Oncology was well-represented here, including Jessika Contreras, MD, Stephanie Markovina, MD, PhD, Jin Zhang, PhD and Stephanie Perkins, MD (not pictured, but also recently received first R01).
Congratulations to these researchers!

Stephanie Markovina, MD, PhD, METEOR Clinical Trial and Project 1 Co-l (Cervix) Lead has been awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health in the amount of $2,865,128. Her work is entitled “The role of SERPINB3 in cervical cancer therapeutic resistance”.

PGY-5 resident LeMoyne Habimana-Griffin, MD, PhD, has been selected to be a member of the Program for Underrepresented in Medicine for Equity and Diversity (PROUD-MED) 2024 Cohort. PROUD-MED is an initiative supported by the ICTS and WashU Medicine to enhance underrepresented in medicine (URiM) faculty development by providing mentored clinical research training, dedicated Research Development Program […]

PGY-3 resident and PSTP member, Vladislav Sviderskiy, MD, PhD, has been chosen to be part of the B. Leonard Holman Research Pathway by the American Board of Radiology (ABR). The Holman Research Pathway is an alternative pathway leading to Board certification, designed for the exceptional trainee who has both strong clinical abilities and a background […]

Stephanie Markovina, MD, PhD and Jessika Contreras, MD have been awarded an R37 MERIT grant from the National Institutes of Health in the amount of $3,182,644. Their work is entitled, “Accelerated Brachytherapy Forward Chemoradiation Therapy (ABC-RT) for Cervical Cancer”.

Maria Thomas, MD, PhD, and Stephanie Markovina, MD, PhD both received a Siteman Investment Program grant award to further their research.

Lauren Pedersen, PhD, a researcher in the Carmen Bergom Lab has been awarded a seed grant from the ASTRO Residents/Fellows in Radiation Oncology Biology.

Jin Zhang, PhD, has been awarded an NCI R01 Research Project Grant in the amount of $1,663,760 over a period of 5 years. The title of his work is “Integrating multi-omics, imaging, and longitudinal data to predict radiation response in cervical cancer”. This is the second R01 grant Dr. Zhang has been awarded during 2023.

Cristian Wieczorek Villas Boas, PhD has been awarded a travel award from iSRS for his work titled “PET/CT Imaging of αvβ6 Integrin to Monitor Radiation-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis”. He will travel to Hawaii to present his work. Cristian is a member of the Dr. Buck Rogers Lab.