Several University of Florida Health Cancer Center early-stage investigators and a trainee who are part of the CaRE2 Health Equity Center have been recognized or honored by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) as they participate in two conferences.
CaRE2 is a bicoastal cancer research and training center that brings together Florida A&M University, the UF Health Cancer Center and the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. The CaRE2 Health Equity Center is funded by grants from the National Cancer Institute, Center for Reducing Cancer Health Disparities, U54 CA233396, U54 CA233444 and U54 CA233465.
Sherise Rogers, M.D.
Sherise Rogers, M.D., an assistant professor in the division of hematology and oncology in the UF College of Medicine, will deliver an oral presentation, titled “Feasibility of serial microbiome collection in a multi-site neoadjuvant pancreatic cancer clinical trial allowing for a diverse patient population,” during the “Hot Topics and Recent Discoveries 4: Presentations from the Top-Rated Abstracts,” session at the 16th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved, which will be held Sept. 29 to Oct. 2 in Orlando.
Lakeshia Cousin, Ph.D., APRN, AGPCNP-BC
Lakeshia Cousin, Ph.D., APRN, AGPCNP-BC, an assistant professor in the department of family, community and health systems science in the UF College of Nursing, is the chair of a session, titled “From Diversity to Equity: Navigating Cancer Survivorship Across the Lifespan,” at the 16th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved.
Kristianna Fredenburg, M.D., Ph.D.
Kristianna Fredenburg, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine, is on the program committee for the 16th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnical Minorities and the Medically Underserved. Fredenburg is also co-leader of the CaRE2 Tissue Modeling Core.
Corey Perkins
Corey Perkins, a Ph.D. candidate in the lab of Thomas Schmittgen, Ph.D., in the UF College of Pharmacy, received an AACR Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award for her research, titled “Epigenetic small molecule library screen to discover compounds that inhibit and reverse pancreatic acinar to ductal metaplasia,” at the AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: Pancreatic Cancer, which will be held Sept. 27-30 in Boston.
Poster presentations
University of Florida presentations at the 16th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnical Minorities and the Medically Underserved.
Contact registry for health-related cancer research: promoting inclusion in research
Guzman I, Hensel B, Aristizabal C, Ibarra E, Barahona R, Hazelton-Glenn B, Wilkie D, Krieger J, Stern MC, Suther S, Baezconde-Garbanati L, Webb F
Haitian and African American men’s knowledge of and willingness to utilize at-home colon cancer screening tests
Jean-Louis A, Guzman I, Hensel B, Webb F
Community Scientist Research Advocacy Program: Bridging cancer research and community advocacy
Hensel B, Ibarra E, Aristizabal C, Guzman I, Barahona R, Hazelton-Glenn B, Lee J, Zhang Z, Stern MC, Baezconde-Garbanati L, Suther S, Webb F
Exploring differences in supportive care medication use among racial and ethnic minorities with pancreatic and colorectal cancers
Allen JM, Awunti M, Guo Y, Rogers SC, Scarton L, Whitner C, Wilkie DJ
Exploring the relationship between miR-9-5p levels and MAP1B expression in laryngeal cancer cell lines
Gobin G, Lattimore C, Walker J, Fredenburg KM
Bridging the gap: A literature review of cancer mortality and incarcerated individuals
Isaacs T, Oladeru O, Li J, Iwai Y
