ÜREN LAB

Pediatric Oncology

Our Goal:

We aim to discover small molecules that can inhibit important protein-protein interactions in pediatric sarcomas.

Research Highlights

Ewing Sarcoma

Osteosarcoma

Rhabdomyosarcoma

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AYKUT UREN

LAB MEMBERS

News:

2025

Congratulations to Prakriti Tiwari on being named as a Royden B. Davis Undergraduate Research Fellow. Herself and her summer 2025 research with Dr. Aykut Üren will be supported by this fellowship. (April 2025)

We welcome Nikola Knoll to our team as a PhD candidate! (March 2025)

2024

Congratulations to Dr. Aykut Üren for being selected as one of the Children's Cancer Foundation's 2024 Research Awardees and receiving a research grant (August 2024). 

Congratulations to Dr. Aykut Üren for being awarded the 2024 Hope Scholar Grant by Hyundai Hope on Wheels. This generous grant that will fund our research on pediatric cancer for the next two years (July 2024).

Congratulations to Anna Molotkova and Taryn Shaw on presenting their research posters at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in San Diego (April 2024).

We welcome Foram Shah to our team as a Research Assistant! (April 2024).

We congratulate Taryn Shaw for her grant award as part of Georgetown's Pharmacological Sciences Training Program. Grantees receive support for their PhD program and complete two internships. She will be developing novel drugs to treat rhabdomyosarcoma with her NCI F32 grant (2024).

We congratulate Anna Molotkova for her grant award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). She will be investigating the molecular mechanisms of Ewing sarcoma metastasis with her NCI F30 grant (2024).

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