Kim Lab News Archive 2020
Nick Belt and Yifei Sun joins Kim Lab. Welcome, Nick and Yifei!
Congratulations to Alex Avera and Spenser Brown for being selected as GAANN fellows!
Spenser Brown co-authored a review paper in collaboration with Dr. Han-A Park entitled “Cellular Mechanisms of Circulating Tumor Cells During Breast Cancer Metastasis” in International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Congratulations, Spenser!
We gratefully acknowledge supplement funding from the National Science Foundation that will support Joe Park’s internship with our collaborators at Spark Therapeutics.
We gratefully acknowledge new funding from the National Science Foundation (PI: John Kim) to develop brain tumor organoids using bioreactors.
Our project studying the effects of salinomycin on glioblastoma stem cells is accepted for publication in Oncology Reports. Congratulations, Justin and Will!
Joe Park is awarded the American Institute of Chemists Graduate Award by the UA ChBE department. Congratulations, Joe!
John Kim is awarded the Outstanding Faculty Member Award by the UA Omega Chi Epsilon.
Kim Lab REU alumnus Mike Doane won the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations, Mike!
Group dinner to welcome Jules Bates and celebrate Joe’s first author publication.
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Joe Park’s and Brianna Beswick’s collaboration project with Drs. Yuping Bao (UA ChBE) and Farah D. Lubin (UAB Neurobiology) entitled “Surface Effects of Ultrasmall Iron Oxide Nanoparticles on Cellular Uptake, Proliferation, and Multipotency of Neural Stem Cells” is published in ACS Applied Nano Materials. Congratulations, Joe and Brianna!
Juliana Bates joins Kim Lab. Welcome, Jules!
We gratefully acknowledge new internal pilot project funding from the UA Office for Research Development (PI: John Kim) to study the perivascular and hypoxic microenvironments of brain tumors.
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