- Dr. Yash Choksi received a Best Poster Award at the 2019 AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting in Chicago.
- Jen Pilat received a Best Poster Award at the Digestive Disease Research Center (DDRC) Retreat.
- Our publication, "Serine Threonine Kinase 17A maintains the epithelial state in colorectal cancer cells", was featured in the VUMC Reporter and tweeted by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)!
- Shruti Anant was awarded a Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program (VUSRP) Fellowship for her research to be conducted this summer. This award carries a stipend of $5,000. Congratulations, Shruti!
- Dr. Yash Choksi and Dr. Sarah Short received pilot funding from the DDRC. Dr. Short also received a Young Investigator award from the DDRC. Congratulations!
- Joshua Thompson successfully defended his dissertation, "Blood Vessel Epicardial Substance (BVES) and BVES Binding Partners in Intestinal Homeostasis and Tumorigenesis. Congratulations, Dr. Thompson!
- Dr. Sarah Short and Rachel Brown received travel awards from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) to attend Digestive Disease Week (DDW).
- Jen Pilat received an Abstract of Distinction award for her abstract submitted to DDW.
- Dr. Yash Choksi received a Career Development Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Congratulations, Dr. Choksi!
- Jen Pilat received an F31 NRSA Individual Fellowship grant for her work studying Selenoprotein P in Wnt-driven tumorigenesis. Congratulations, Jen!
- Dr. Sarah Short, Rachel Brown, Jen Pilat, and Jasmine Chaparro each received $2000 grants from the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) to support their research.