We congratulate Emre Deniz, Prakriti Tiwari, Purushottam Tiwari, and Anup Tiwari on their paper publication in Science Signaling! (March 2026).
We congratulate Anna Molotkova, Emre Deniz, and Purushottam Tiwari and former lab member Isabel Frye on their paper publication in Cancer Research Communications! (February 2026).
We congratulate Anna Molokova for successfully defending her PhD thesis! (February 2026).
2025
Congratulations to Dr. Aykut Üren on being awarded a grant by the Jeff Gordon Children's Foundation! This generous grant will help us to develop new drugs for rhabdomyosarcoma (September 2025). Congratulation to Dr. Purushottam Tiwari for being awarded an S10 Instrumentation Programs award from NIH! (July 2025).
We welcome Anup Tiwarito our team as a Sponsored University Associate from Walter Johnson High School! (June 2025).
Congratulations to Taryn Shaw for being awarded 1st place for the 2025 Clarity in Science Award by Georgetown Breast Cancer Advocates. This recognizes excellence in communicating research to lay audiences (May 2025).
Congratulations to Anna Molotkova and Taryn Shaw on presenting their research posters at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meetingin Chicago (April 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 Knollto 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 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 Meetingin San Diego (April 2024).
We welcome Foram Shahto 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).
2023
We welcome Isabel Fryeto our team as a Research Technician! (Aug 2023)
We congratulate Kay Nakazawa, Taryn Shaw, Anna Molotkova, Purushottam Tiwari, and Emre Deniz and former lab member Marilyn Kouassi-Brou on their paper publication in Cancer Research Communications! (August 2023)
Congratulations to Dr. Aykut Üren for being named as one of the Children's Cancer Foundation (CCF) 2023 Research Awardees (July 2023)
We congratulate Emre Deniz, Sezen Atasoy, Anna Molotkova, and Purushottam Tiwari and former lab member Handan Sevim on their paper publication in European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry! (February 2023)
Congratulations to former lab member Mario Lemus on his new position as a Protein Purification Scientist!! (Jan 2023)
Congratulations to Jeff Petro and Emre Deniz on participating in the Hyundai Hands on Hope Contest at the DC AutoShow! And Congratulations to Jeff Petro on winning the contest!! (Jan 2023)
2022
We welcome Irene Tangto our team as a Master Degree Candidate! (Sept 2022) We welcome Taryn Shawto our team as a Doctoral Degree Candidate! (Aug 2022)
We welcome Prakriti Tiwarito our team as a Sponsored University Associate from Walter Johnson High School! (July 2022)
Congratulations to Emre Deniz, Taryn Shaw, and Anna Molotkova on presenting their research posters at the Children Cancer Foundation Research Symposium on June 8 2022. Emre Deniz held a talk on 'Ezrin Asserts its Roles on Osteosarcoma Metastasis Through Interacting with RNAs.' (June 2022)
Congratulations to Jing Zhang in finishing herMaster Degree in Biotechnology! (May 2022)
We welcome Sezen Atasoyto our team as a Postdoctoral Fellow! (March 2022)
We welcome Jing Zhangto our team as a Master Degree Candidate! (Jan 2022)
2021
Congratulations to Anna Molotkova, who presented two abstracts at the Advances in Ewing Sarcoma Research (AESR) 2021 meeting on Oct 15. The virtual meeting was organized by the Bone Cancer Research Trust and University of Leeds in the UK. (Oct 2021)
We welcome Emre Denizto our team as a Postdoctoral Fellow! (June 2021)
We congratulate former lab member Handan Sevim as well as current lab members Kay Nakazawa, Anna Molotkova, and Jeff Petro on their paper publication in PLOS ONE! (June 2021) We congratulate Brittany Meisenheimer in finishing her Master Degree in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology! (May 2021)
We are extremely grateful to Spada Pediatric Sarcoma Foundation for its generous support of the Ewing sarcoma project in our laboratory!! (May 2021)
We congratulate Purushottam Tiwari, Mario Lemus, Taryn Shaw and former lab member Marilyn Kouassi-Brou for a paper publication in BMC molecular and cell biology! (Feb 2021)
We welcome Todd Young to our team as a Postdoctoral Fellow! (Jan 2021)
2020
We welcome Kay Nakazawa to our team as a Research Assistant! (Nov 2020)
We welcome Brittany Meisenheimer to our team as a Master Degree Candidate! (Oct 2020)
The lab received a research grant from Bone Cancer Research Trust, UK! (Sept 2020)
We received a two year 2020 Hyundai Hope Scholar Grant from Hyundai Hope on Wheels for one of our Ewing sarcoma projects!! (July 2020)
We congratulate Marilyn Kouassi-Brou for being accepted to Medical School!! She will be attending starting in the Fall of 2020!! (Feb 2020)
We congratulate Anna Molotkova for being accepted to the Ph.D/M.D. program Georgetown University School of Medicine! she will be joining the Class of 2024! (Feb 2020)
We have received a R12 grant from the National Cancer Institute for our Rhabdomyosarcoma project! (Jan 2020)
We welcome Handan Sevim to our team as a Postdoctoral Fellow! (Feb 2020)
We received a grant from the Children's Cancer Foundation for our Rhabdomyosarcoma project! (November 2019)
We welcome Taryn Shaw to our team as a Research Assistant! (September 2019)
We congratulate Erin Conn, PhD in her new job as a Program Associate for SEA Change and the AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassadors Program! (August 2019)
We welcome Mario Lemus to our team as a Biacore technician! (July 2019)
We congratulate Erin Conn for successfully defending her PhD thesis! (April 2019)