Summertime News from the Delgoffe Lab

Happy Summer from the Delgoffe Lab! Here are some highlights from what we've been up to the last few months:

New Funding

  • US Army/Department of Defense Translational Team Science Grant (CA170483 -  PIs Delgoffe, Najjar) - Metabolic Remodeling of the Tumor Microenvironment to Improve the Efficacy of Immunotherapy
  • NIH/NIAID R21AI135367 (PI: Delgoffe) - Illuminating metabolic pathways enabled by early T cell activation
  • NIH/NCI P50CA097190 (Project Leader: Delgoffe) - SPORE in Head and Neck Cancer Project 1: Evaluating and overcoming tumor hypoxia as a metabolic barrier to immunotherapy

And graduate Student Ronal Peralta was awarded funding from the University of Pittsburgh's Autoimmunity and Immunopathology Training Program T32.

 

New students

MSTP student Paolo Vignali and Konstantinos Lontos have officially joined our lab. Welcome!

 

Featured highlight from the lab

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PittMed magazine's Feast to Famine: Denying tumors what they need 

 

And finally, we're enjoying the sunshine!

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