Dr. Hayes joined Soman Abraham’s lab when he arrived at Duke after his undergraduate studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute to start and develop his dissertation project. He completed his doctorate degree in 2021 with work focused on understanding the functional impact…
Pakawat Chongsathidkiet, MD., PhD. graduated from the Pathology PhD Program in the spring of 2020, the first to defend on Zoom! Pakawat (Nick) did his postdoc in Dr. Peter Fecci’s lab last year continuing from his PhD project. He got accepted this year into the neurosurgery clinical fellowship program at…
In the 2021 annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), former PhD student Dr. Xuhui Bao and one other former Duke PhD student were elected out of a group of 16 to be NextGen Stars (https://www.aacr.org/meeting/aacr-annual-meeting-2021/nextgen-stars/) of this year to present in the Spotlight session in the…
A committee of biomedical graduate students has selected Professor of Pathology Laura Hale, MD PhD, as a distinguished nominee for the 2021 Gordon G. Hammes Faculty Teaching Award. For over 25 years, Dr. Hale has taught the Introduction to Systemic Histology and General Pathology courses, typically taken by graduate students…
4th year PhD candidate Yuanfan Yang writes, “The Lunar New Year, also called Chinese Spring Festival, is a time when families get together in Asian culture. Since traveling home is not encouraged at this moment to fight with COVID, our grad students Nicole, Jennifer and I celebrated the…
Claire Otero, a third year PhD candidate working in the Permar lab, has been inspiring the next generation of STEM students through her work with the Journal of Emerging Investigators, (JEI). Claire says, “I am currently working as one of three head copy editors with JEI, which means that I…