Month: April 2026

Former Cancer Biology T32 Trainee Patrick Carney, MD, PhD, received the 1st Place Flash Talk Award at the 2026 UW Carbone Cancer Center Annual Research Retreat. Dr. Carney received his PhD in the laboratory of McArdle Professor Christopher Bradfield. Now a General Surgery Resident, Dr. Carney’s Flash Talk described his ongoing research “Cyclin-dependent Kinase 7 (CDK7) …

Former Cancer Biology T32 Trainee Marina Sharifi recently gave a Badger Talk on research conducted in her laboratory related to “Breakthroughs in Personalized Breast Cancer Treatment”. Dr. Sharifi is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine (Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Palliative Care) at UW–Madison.  The physician-scientist’s laboratory “co-developed a liquid biopsy approach …