Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and the University of Georgia (UGA) hosted nearly 100 researchers on the Emory campus in Atlanta for the 2024 UGA-Winship Cancer Research Summit on April 22. The annual summit highlights strengths and synergies of the two institutions and explores opportunities to collaborate on cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment efforts.
This year’s summit featured a keynote presentation from Winship researcher Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, the Lawrence W. Davis Professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine, who addressed progress in breast cancer research and treatment and where the field is heading. Faculty, trainees and students presented emerging cancer research spanning basic, translational, clinical and population sciences. In addition, recipients of the most recent UGA-Winship joint pilot grant discussed their inter-institutional project, “Exploring the Therapeutic Potential of Apolipoprotein L1 for Human Cancers” (principal investigators: Gregory B. Lesinski, PhD, MPH, and Stephen Hajduk, PhD).
The day concluded with a reception and scientific poster session showcasing research from UGA and Winship students, trainees and lab members, with awards given to the top-scoring posters from each institution.
UGA and Winship poster award winners include:
- Characteristics of Mismatch Repair Deficient Endometrial Cancer in a Diverse Cohort
Sara Brenner, MD
Resident, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Emory University School of Medicine - Adoptively Transferred Th17 cells Induce Anti-tumor B Cell Responses to Regress Solid Tumors
Anna Cole
Doctoral student, Cancer Biology Graduate Program
Emory University - Modify KPR Software to Assemble and Genotype MHC-II Alleles in Dogs
Nikitha Sundaresha
Doctoral student, Institute of Bioinformatics
University of Georgia - Identification of Lysine Isobutyrylation as a New Posttranslational Modification
Nolan Swain
Doctoral student, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
University of Georgia
The summit’s steering committee members included representatives from UGA and Winship and are listed below.
Eugene Douglass, PhD (UGA)
Natarajan Kannan, PhD (UGA)
Eileen Kennedy, PhD (UGA)
Kimberly Kerstann, PhD (Winship)
Gregory Lesinski, PhD, MPH (Winship)
Adam Marcus, PhD (Winship)
Carlos Moreno, PhD (Winship)
Chrystal Paulos, PhD (Winship)
Renee Read, PhD (Winship)
Corey Saba, PhD (UGA)
Khalid Salaita, PhD (Winship)
Lisa Sudmeier, MD, PhD (Winship)
Jason Yustein, MD, PhD (Winship)
Shaying Zhao, PhD (UGA)
