2/15/2023: Dr. Becky Dadey is awarded T32 from the UPitt Cancer Immunotherapy Training Program (CITP). Congratulations Becky!!

2/10/2023: Dr. Ryan Augustin’s article “Targeting Cbl-b in cancer immunotherapy” is published on JITC. Congratulations Ryan!!

12/6/2022: Dr. Ryan Augustin’s commentary “Old dog, new trick: a tumor-intrinsic role for PD1 in chemoresistant tumor subclones” is published on CCR. Congratulations Ryan!

11/14/2022: The Spatial Omics and Computational Imaging Symposium in Human Diseases Symposium (SPCIG), sponsored by UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, will be held in The Assembly Building, Pittsburgh, PA. We welcome a stellar lines of speakers from UPitt, CMU, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, and Nature Methods Editorial Board. The SPCIG symposium is organized by Dr. Riyue Bao, Dr. Tullia C Bruno, and Dr. Yufei Huang. Please join us!

11/7/2022 - 11/12/2022: The SITC Annual Conference is happening in Boston, MA! Dr. Augustin, Dr. Dadey, and our medical students Zane Nathaniel (Y4) and Arjun Mittal (Y2) will be presenting their work (4 posters + 1 oral presentation!) in Immuno-Oncology and Cancer Immunotherapy. Our lab manager and project coordinator, Sarah Brodeur, will be with us too. Looking forward to seeing everybody at SITC!

11/7/2022: Dr. Rose Doerfler joins our lab. Welcome Dr. Doerfler!

11/2/2022: Dr. Krishna Singh joins our lab. Welcome Dr. Singh!

10/9/2022: We submitted a pilot grant on deep learning and early diagnosis of cancer. Fingers crossed!

10/7/2022: We look forward to Dr. Becky Dadey to present her story on p38 and immune exclusion at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center retreat poster session!!

9/19/2022: Dr. Bao joins the two-day NCI Computational Immuno-Oncology Workshop to discuss challenges, solutions, and future directions in data integration, team science, and therapeutic development in IO.

9/7/2022: We look forward to Arjun Mittal to present his story on CTLA4 tomorrow at Center for System Immunology (CSI) retreat poster session!!

8/20/2022: We received NOA that our R01 in “Immune Exclusion in Cancer Immunotherapy” gets funded by NIDCR!! Congrats to the team :)

8/8/2022: Dr. Becky Dadey submitted her F32 grant. We are rooting for you Becky!!

7/22/2022: Our R01 received a score of 21 (5%)!!!! We are cautiously hopeful :)

7/8/2022: Dr. Bao teaches MSTP year 1 students on using bioinformatics to make new discoveries in biomedicine at UPitt School of Medicine. Thanks Dr. Richard Steinman for the kind invite!

7/5/2022: We resubmitted our R21! Thanks to the team work in lab and fingers crossed.

5/9/2022: Congratulations to our very own Dr. Jason Luke on being elected to #SITC At-Large Director and Board of Directors!

3/12/2022: The 2nd annual #SITC Computational Immuno-Oncology Webinar Series goes live!! Sponsored by NCI Moonshot Program and organized by Big Data and Data Sharing Committee (https://bit.ly/3ihrSOL). Read more and register (it’s free!): https://www.sitcancer.org/education/computational

3/10/2022: Dr. Luke gives plenary lecture at Melanoma Research Alliance Annual Retreat on “Integrating clinical and genomic observations to advance combination therapies in melanoma”, Washington, D.C.

3/5/2022: We resubmitted our R01! Fingers crossed.

2/15/2022: Dr. Bao and Dr. Luke give UPitt DOM #BenchToBedside #Medicine grand rounds, entitled “Analyzing the T cell-inflamed tumor microenvironment to nominate novel cancer immunotherapy strategies”. Watch the talk recording here: https://dom.pitt.edu/grandrounds

2/9/2022: Congrats to Dr. Ryan Augustin on this fielding leading translational review/perspective in IO - “Next steps for clinical translation of adenosine pathway inhibition in cancer”, published on Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. Read more: https://jitc.bmj.com/content/10/2/e004089

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