Newsworthy Items

 

Fall 2025

Fokhrul Hossain published a P20 manuscript in NPJ Breast Cancer. 

Sun Young Kim published in JAMA Network Open. 

Brionna King (M4 Medical Student - Honors Research Program) won the LSU LCMC Health Cancer Center Travel Award for her research on nucleoside analogs as novel immunotherapeutics leveraging the adenosine pathway. She will present her research at the AACR annual meeting 2026 in San Diego with the travel award support.

Laura Naldi (PhD student): Laura's image of a tumor-derived organoid was selected for the Agilent BioTek 2026 imaging calendar. Organoid models are at the forefront of preclinical cancer research, and a key component of Laura's work on sodium-dependent regulation of antitumor T-cell responses through the vasopressin pathway. The project is a collaboration between Dr. Giulia Monticone's lab at LSUHSC and Dr. Alessandro Peri at the University of Florence (Italy). 

Dr. Giulia Monticone, Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and the LSU LCMC Health Cancer Center, was awarded a highly competitive FDA - AACR Oncology Educational Fellowship for the 2025–2026 cycle. This prestigious fellowship, jointly sponsored by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), provides fellows with unique opportunities to deepen their understanding of regulatory science and policy in oncology drug development. As part of the fellowship, Dr. Monticone will receive support to attend two key in-person events: the AACR Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, in April 2026, and Project ODAC Odyssey in May 2026 at the FDA’s White Oak Campus. During these events, fellows participate in specialized sessions within the Regulatory Science and Policy Track, engage directly with FDA staff, and culminate their experience by leading a mock FDA Oncology Drugs Advisory Committee meeting. We congratulate Dr. Monticone on this remarkable achievement and look forward to their contributions to advancing oncology research and drug development at LSUHSC.

Spring 2025 Graduates