Graduate Student News
Thank you to Morgan Chu for visiting and giving a Seminar on November 14, 2024
January 6, 2025
Congratulations to Dr. John Murad (IMGS Alumni) for being a 2024 Career Development Grant Award Recipient from Tower Cancer Research Foundation.
December 23, 2024
Congratulations to the SACNAS Chapter 1st inaugural COH Meeting.
SACNAS (The Society for Advancement for Chicanos/Latinos and Native Americans in Science) is open to people from all cultural identities and allies, so please show up and help grow our diverse communities here at COH!
To learn more about the national SACNAS organization’s impact and goals please visit their website (https://www.sacnas.org/impact). Please do not hesitate to reach out to me (sirocha@coh.org) with any questions.
We’re excited to build with you!
Thank you,
Sienna, Kassy, and Greisha
SACNAS Members
Picture taken at 2024 SACNAS
Congratulations to Hai Pham on an outstanding presentation at the Decembers Beckman Frontier Forum.
Congratulations Mike Fernandez on being Honored with the Hematology Inclusion Pathway Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award by American Society of Hematology.
December 19, 2024
Dr. Britt Glaunsinger of UC Berkley University delivered the 9th annual memorial Susumu Ohno Leading Edge Lecture on December 18, 2024. In her talk, Dr. Glaunsinger provided astonishing new insights on how oncogenic herpesviruses manipulate: 1) targeted destruction of the host’s RNA, and 2) the host’s synthesis machinery to control gene expression.
We thank the Ohno committee, especially Dr. Andrei Rodin, and our LEL student sponsors Esther Rodriguez and Jean Patrick Gonzalez Dahua for making this remarkable seminar possible.
Photo (from left to right): Dr. Britt Glaunsinger, Dr. Andrei Rodin, Jean Patrick Gonzalez Dahua, and Esther Rodriguez.
December 9, 2024
Congratulations to Rosemarie Martinez Borrero on being selected as a 2025 Jenssen (J&J) SODEP Scholar!
December 6, 2024
Congratulations to Cesar Gonzalez on being selected as a 2025 Jenssen (J&J) SODEP Scholar!
November 22, 2024
Congratulations to Morgan & Helen Chu on their Prize Awardee Plaque unveiled in the Irell & Manella Graduate School Office on November 14th. In addition, honoring the Awardees for 2023-2024 Yu-Hsuan Fu and 2024-2025 Nan Jiang.
November 12, 2024
Congratulations to Cari, Diana and Alonso for being selected to present their posters to the Board of Directors.
Cari Young,
Poster title: “Focal Radiotherapy Improves the Efficacy of CAR T Cells Directed Against Prostate Cancer”
Diana Esparza,
Poster title: Pancreatic β-cells package double C2-like domain beta protein into extracellular vesicles via tandem C2 domains
Alonso Tapia,
Poster title: Endothelial role in regulating islet function.
November 11, 2024
Congratulations to Tongyuan (James) Xue (Graduate Student Alumni) for presenting at SITC in Houston.
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November 1, 2024
Congratulations 1st year PHD on completing your 1st Lab Rotation talks.
October 29, 2024
Invites you to a seminar presented by the
Morgan Chu Distinguished Visiting Professor:
James B. Lorens, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biomedicine
University of Bergen, Norway
“AXL as a Therapeutic Target in Cancer”
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM, PDT
contact kecarter@coh.org for more information.
October 25, 2024
Announcing Bio-Entrepreneurship Speaker Series:
We want to make sure you see this, and we want to make sure you know that if you are curious about turning basic science into biotech companies then this might be for you…
Ever feel like there's no handbook for launching a biotech company? That's because there isn't! But we've got the next best thing for you. The Postdoctoral Training Office, the Irell and Manella Graduate School, and the Office of Technology Licensing are combining forces to bring you the Bio-Entrepreneurship Speaker Series!
That’s right! We're hosting a bio-entrepreneurship speaker series right here at City of Hope. This is your chance to meet innovators and professionals from the startup world—people you'd probably have a hard time connecting with otherwise. They're ready to share their hard-won knowledge and real-life stories you just can't find in any book or online.
- Learn from the pros: Hear firsthand about the challenges and triumphs of clinical translation and commercialization.
- Exclusive networking: Rub elbows with industry pros and fellow scientists in a relaxed, informal setting.
Event Details:
| Date | Time (PT) | Speaker | Institution | Area of Focus | |
| 10/25/24 | 4pm | James Lorens | University of Bergen/ BerGenBio | A tale of bio-entrepreurship: the story of bemcentinib | |
| 10/28/24 | 4pm | Tom Cirrito | Astonishing Labs | What is a bio-entrepreneur and how do you do it? | |
| 11/7/24 | 4pm | Graham Cole | City of Hope Office of Technology Licensing | Licensing and patenting | |
| 11/11/24 | 4pm | Chris Molineaux | Drug development expert Fibrogen / Rigel / Onyx / Proteolix | Translating into the clinic: investigational new drugs (INDs) | |
| 11/18/24 | 4pm | Susan Molineaux | CEO Para Therapeutics | Funding your ideas and running startups | |
| 12/4/24 | 3:30pm | Linda Malkas | City of Hope Professor and Entrepreneur | Academic-Biotech start up: on the ground lessons in making, it happen. | |
| TBD | Vivek Mohta | President and co-founder Manifold.ai | Lessons from a recent start-up & partnering with VCs | ||
| TBD | Michael Caligiuri | City of Hope Professor and Entrepreneur | Spin outs from City of Hope | ||
| TBD | John Nackel | 360 Advisory Group | What are VCs and how do companies work with them | ||
Whether you are a faculty (Clinical or BRI), a postdoctoral fellow, a clinical fellow, a grad student, in tech transfer, or just really interested in biotechnology and translating discovery into care this is a golden opportunity to gain insights that only come from lived experiences.
Don't miss out on stories and advice you won't get anywhere else—and maybe spark some ideas for your own biotech journey!
This is for internal faculty (Clinical or BRI), a postdoctoral fellow, a clinical fellow, a grad student: For more information, please contact Dr. Mark LaBarge MLaBarge@coh.org.
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Invites you to a seminar series presented by the
Morgan Chu Distinguished Visiting Professor:
Rotem Karni, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada
Hebrew University Medical School
“Molecular Medicine – from understanding the molecular mechanism to the development of therapy”
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM, PDT
Contact kecarter@coh.org for more information.
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Thank you to all the students and postdocs that participated in the Pediatrics Parade. As well Thank you to all that donated candy.
October 18, 2024
Congratulations to Mike Fernandez on being selected to receive a 2024 HIP (Hematology Inclusion Pathway) Graduate Student Abstract Award (HGSAAA) on your abstract submitted to the 66th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition (December 7-10, 2024, San Diego)
October 11, 2024
Please join us for virtual Open House hours with admission committee members, faculty, and graduate student representatives. Topics will include how to apply to our Ph.D. program in biological sciences, tips on completing the application forms and more.
September 27, 2024
September 12, 2024
- Congratulations to Dr. Kumi Sakurai (Alumni) for being promoted to R&D Senior Manager, Intellectual Property at FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific.
September 10, 2024
- Welcome to the 2024 PHDBS, PHDTM and the MSTM Graduate Students. We wish you a successful year ahead of you.
- Congratulations to Diana Gumber for being invited and presenting at the Beckman Frontier on August 29.
- Congratulations to Dr. John Murad (IMGS Graduate Student Alumni) for his promotion to Assistant Professor of Research at Keck Medicine of USC.
- We would like to congratulate the Student Symposium Committee for an amazing Symposium this year. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication. In addition, we would like to congratulate the winners of the day:
Oral Presentations:
- First: Kassy Lopez
- Second: Diana Gumber
- Third: Vanessa Matti
Poster:
- First: Yu-Hsuan Fu
- Second: Tie between Vanessa Matti & Amanda Duplan
- Third: Xinying Guo
3-Minute Thesis:
- First: Kassy Lopez
Again, congratulations to all and we look forward to next year’s symposium.
September 5, 2024
- Congratulations to Nan Jiang on receiving the scholarship to attend the ISEVxTECH conference in Baltimore.
August 19, 2024
Congratulations to Nour Amwas on receiving “Best Poster” at the 11th annual ImmunologyLA conference. The title of her poster was “Inducing tumor-associated tertiary lymphoid structures using membrane-tethered LTBR agonists.”
Diana Gumber was selected to give an oral presentation at the 11th annual ImmunologyLA conference.