Kyle Wegner is first author on ‘Edar is a downstream target of beta-catenin and drives collagen accumulation in the mouse prostate’, published in BIO. Kyle is a PhD candidate in the lab of Chad M. …
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2019 O’BRIEN CENTER SPRING SYMPOSIUM
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SAVE THE DATE FOR SPRING SYMPOSIUM
Save the date for the 2018 George M. O’Brien Urology Research Center Spring Symposium, “Cellular Functions in Urology,” on April 20-21, 2018. Save_the_Date_Flyer
VEZINA INVITED TO SPEAK AT AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INVESTIGATIVE PATHOLOGY ANNUAL MEETING
Chad Vezina, PhD, will present “Linking DNA Methylation to Androgen Signaling and Prostate Proliferative Growth” at the 2017 American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) annual meeting, held in conjunction with the 2017 Experimental Biology Meeting in …
SPUUR INTERN PRESENTS AT NIDDK MEETING
Leema John, 2016 SPUUR intern, presented her summer research findings at the 2016 NIDDK Urology Director’s Meeting in Pacific Grove, California, December 7-9, 2016.
UMASS BOSTON AND DANA-FARBER/HARVARD CANCER CENTER U54 PARTNERSHIP RECEIVES $8.5M
The University of Massachusetts Boston and the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) have been granted $8.5 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health to support their U54 Comprehensive Partnership for Cancer Disparities …
JEONG RECEIVES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE GRANT TO STUDY PROSTATE DISEASE DEVELOPMENT
Clara Jeong, PhD, received a Prostate Cancer Research Program Postdoctoral Training Award from the Department of Defense to support her investigation into the effects of environmental toxicants on prostate disease development. The two-year award begins …
VEZINA PRESENTS LECTURE AND TALK AT COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY COURSE
Chad Vezina, PhD, gave a lecture and talk on prostate development and benign prostate disease at the” Cold Spring Harbor Lab Course, “Mouse Development, Stem Cells and Cancer,” held in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, …
VEZINA RECEIVES ZOETIS ANIMAL HEALTH AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
Chad Vezina, PhD, associate professor of comparative biosciences in the UW School of Veterinary Medicine, is the recipient of the 2016 Zoetis Animal Health Award for Research Excellence. The UW School of Veterinary Medicine established …
BUSHMAN RECEIVES VA GRANT TO STUDY LINK BETWEEN PROSTATE INFLAMMATION AND BPH/LUTS
Wade Bushman, MD, PhD, the Robert F. and Dolores K. Schnoes Chair in Urologic Research, was recently awarded a 4-year Merit Award from the Veteran’s Administration to study the role of prostate inflammation in Benign …