DeNardo Lab News

July 2019

• Panni et. al. published in Science Translational Medicine !
• Press release
• Highlight in Nature Reviews G&H

April 2019

• Hong Jiang & Xiuting Liu's manuscript published in Gut !

Nov 2018

• John Herndon finishes his research in lab, and will head next to Wash U Human Tumor Atlas consortium 

Sep 2018

• Xiuting Liu joins the lab as new postdoctoral scholar !
• David and Samarth attended the AACR Special conference on 'Pancreatic Cancer: Advances in Science and Clinical Care' in Boston, MA
  • Samarth received the Aflac AACR Scholar-in-Training Award to attend the conference 

 

May 2018

• Hong Jiang finishes his postdoctoral research in lab ! 
• Brett Herzog joins the lab !

Mar 2018

• Meyer et al. published in Nature Communications
• Roheena attended SSO 2018 Meeting at Chicago, was awarded 2018 SSO Traveling Fellowship

 

Feb 2018

• David, Roheena and Samarth attended the joint-Keystone Symposia on 'Lymphocytes and their Roles in Cancer' and 'Emerging Cellular Therapies: T Cells and Beyond' at Keystone, CO
  • David presented talk on combinatorial strategies targeting myeloid and t cell compartments in pancreatic cancer
  • Samarth presented a short talk on "Neoantigenicity accelerates early pancreatic cancer progression"

 

Jan 2018

• Melissa Meyer successfully defends her thesis & will soon head out to her postdoctoral appointment in San Diego !

 

Oct 2017

• Varintra Krisnawan (MSTP) joins the lab for her graduate studies !

 

Sep 2017

• Samarth is awarded the 2017 NCI F99/K00 Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Fellowship for his project grant defining barriers to immune surveillance in pancreatic cancer; NIH RePORTER link.

 

Aug 2017

• Zhu Y et al. published in Immunity; read Special preview here

 

May 2017

• Review on role of tumor-associated fibrosis in modulating immunity published in Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy

 

April 2017

• Yu Zhu successfully defends his thesis & heads out to his postdoctoral lab @ Stanford !

 

Mar 2017

• John Baer joins the lab for his graduate studies !

 

Jan 2017

• David promoted with Tenure to Associate Professor of Medicine
• David awarded NCI Supplement as part of SPORE Project 1

 

Aug 2016

• $10.4 million NCI SPORE awarded for Pancreatic Cancer Research at WUSTL Med

 

July 2016

• Jiang et. al. published in Nature Medicine 
• Press: "Immune-based therapy in mice shows promise against pancreatic cancer"
• Press: "FAK inhibition alters tumor cells to respond to immunotherapy in pancreatic cancer"