CBGM News & Events
Student Awards
Sneha Cauhan received "Best Presentation Oral Award" in the Arsenal A Oral Symposium session.
Congratulations to our students for all of their hard work!
Student Awards
Graduate Research Day
- Rebekah Robinson received the ThermoFisher/Phi Kappa Phi Excellence in Research Award.
Congratulations to our students for all of their hard work!
Student Awards
Graduate Research Day
- Marissa Seamon received the Graduate School Award for Excellence in Research.
Congratulations to our students for all of their hard work!
Student Awards
- Yanyan Xu received the Award for Excellence in Research – Genomic Medicine.
Congratulations to our students for all of their hard work!
New approach emerges to better classify, treat brain tumors
Proteins could be source for new blood test for cervical cancer, better therapies
For cervical cancer patients, for instance, the therapy could include quercetin, a plant-derived flavonol, and vitamin C.
Read more at Augusta Chronicle
Gene signature found for poor response to standard chemotherapy in rare uterine cancer
Women who don’t survive a rare and aggressive uterine cancer called uterine serous carcinoma, have high expression of a group of 73 genes, a score scientists say can help identify these women and improve their outcome.
Read more at JagWire
Tran receives scholarship honoring women in higher education
CONGRATULATIONS TO LYNN TRAN
Great News! Lynn Tran, MD/PhD student of CBGM, has received the 2020 Louise McBee Scholarship sponsored by the Georgia Association for Women in Higher Education (GAWHE).
Congratulations Lynn!
Read more at EurekAlert!
Dr. Shruti Sharma
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. SHRUTI SHARMA
Great News! Dr. Shruti Sharma, Assistant Professor at CBGM, has been awarded the 2020 Provost's Award by the Graduate School at Augusta University.
Heartiest Congratulations Dr. Sharma!
Dr. Richard McIndoe
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. RICHARD MCINDOE
Great News! Dr. Richard McIndoe, Professor & Associate Director of CBGM, has been awarded a 1 year sub-contract from UC San Diego entitled: Coordinating and Bioinformatics Unit for the MMPC/DiaComp.
NIH 3 year F30 award
CONGRATULATIONS TO PAUL TRAN
Great News! Paul Tran, MD/PhD student of CBGM, has been awarded a NIH 3 year F30 award entitled: Deep Learning based Genetic Risk Prediction for Type 1 Diabetes.
Congratulations to Paul!
2019 Outstanding Young Basic Science Faculty Award
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. ASHOK SHARMA
Congratulations to Dr. Ashok Sharma on receiving the 2019 Outstanding Young Basic Science Faculty Award, Medical College of Georgia presented at the MCG Faculty Awards Ceremony on April 25, 2019.
Congratulations on this well deserved honor!
Three Minute Thesis Competition
CONGRATULATIONS TO LYNN TRAN!
Congratulations to Lynn Trann (laboratory of Dr. Jin-Xiong She) who won the silver medal in the Three Minute Thesis Competition with her speech on Personalizing uterine cancer treatment.
Congratulations Lynn!
Guest Speaker: Minglu Gao, B.E.
Molecular exploration of fungal beta-lactamases and antagonisms between two maize endophytes, Fusarium verticillioides and Sarocladium zeae
Graduate Research Day Awards
Lynn KH Tran, recipient of the 2018 Graduate Day Research Award in Genomic Medicine.
McIndoe honored with Georgia Bio Award
Dr. Richard McIndoe is one of the recipients of the 2018 Life Sciences Health Impact Awards from Georgia Bio. McIndoe and the MCG Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine will receive the group's Deal of the Year Award.
Read more at Jagwire News
New technology enables identification of biomarkers for a wide range of diseases
'Scientists have developed a way to identify biomarkers for a wide range of diseases by assessing the antibodies we are making to the complex sugars coating our cells.'
Read more at Jagwire News
Graduate Research Day Awards Banquet
At the Graduate Research Day awards banquet, CBGM graduate students were honored for their recent successes. Robert Schleifer (left), a 5th year PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. Jin-Xiong She, was recognized for being a semi-finalist in Augusta University's inaugural 3MT competition. Paul Tran (middle left), a Graduate Year 1 M.D./Ph.D. student in Dr. She's lab, received an award for his Graduate Research Day poster as the recipient of the Award for Excellence in Research in Genomic Medicine. Also pictured are fellow graduate student Lynn Tran (middle right) and their mentor, Dr. She (right).
Augusta University is researching a new drug that might help with diabetes-related blindness
Dr. Shruti Sharma of the Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine has a $1.5 million grant from the National Eye Institute to look at basic research into blocking inflammation among epithelial cells in light-sensing retina in the eye, Sharma is looking at a well-known agent in inflammation called interleukin-6 that can affect those cells even though they lack the receptor normally needed for such interaction, an effect called trans-signaling.
Read more at The Augusta Chronicle.
Therapy could be guided 'missile' against cancer
Using a double-targeted vehicle to home in on prostate cancer cells provides a highly targeted attack against interlocking mechanisms of survival to induce cell death and shrink tumors.
Read more at The Augusta Chronicle.