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Highlights for 2021

2021 Highlights

January 2021
Dr. Mendoza wins the JEDI Award from the Life Science Editors Foundation.

February 2021
Dr. Mendoza wins JEDI Award from Life Science Editors.

March 2021
Mendoza Lab publishes paper in BioRxiv on ERK feedback signaling in lung cancer progression.

June 2021
Congrats to Akib for passing the Department of Oncological Science qualifying exam and advancing to candidacy!

October 2021
Mendoza Lab publishes paper in Oncogene on ERK feedback signaling in lung cancer progression “NKX2-1 controls lung cancer progression by inducing DUSP6 to dampen ERK activity.” 

November 2021
Mendoza Lab publishes paper in BioRxiv on using a new computational model of cell migration to probe how adhesions control edge protrusion.  The model was developed in collaboration with Dr. Tamara Bidone, in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.