Ribeiro Pereira Lab Life: Spring 2022

Ribeiro Pereira Lab event

June 2022

Will Smith, Zachary Fisher and Abbey Zidel joined us as summer students!

Will Smith, Zachary Fisher, and Abbey Zidel join us as summer students!

Thank you to the Siteman Cancer Center for funding our work. We are very grateful to have been awarded a Pre-R01 SIP.

Our publication “PET/CT imaging with a 18F-labeled galactodendritic unit in a galectin-1 overexpressing orthotopic bladder cancer model” received The Alavi-Mandell Award.

May 2022

We received a new grant! Thank you to The Elsa Pardee Foundation for funding our work.

Our publication “Immuno-PET Detects Changes in Multi-RTK Tumor Cell Expression Levels in Response to Targeted Kinase Inhibition” received the Alavi-Mandell Award.

Drs. Sandeep Panikar and Emma Brown presented their work at MIR’s annual Research Symposium poster session.

Dr. Ribeiro Pereira was elected to the Center for Molecular Imaging Innovation and Translation (CMIIT) Board of Directors.

Read our latest work “Caveolin-1 temporal modulation enhances antibody drug efficacy in heterogeneous gastric cancer” and a blog post on this topic.

April 2022

Dr. Panikar received a Best Poster Award at the 2022 Oncologic Imaging Program. Congratulations, Sandeep!

Will Smith received a U-STAR Summer Fellowship program and will be joining us in the summer for eight weeks. Congratulations, Will!

Radiochem and PET imaging and cell culture — what a busy week!

Relay For Life 2022

Happy hour with the amazing Shoghi Lab!