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Prof. Pratt will co-chair the BMES Annual Meeting Cancer Technologies Track with Prof. Madeleine Oudin. The meeting will take place in Baltimore, Maryland, Oct 23-26 2024.

Prof. Pratt gave an invited talk at the Department of Developmental, Molecular and Chemical Biology and Program in Genetics, Molecular and Cell Biology joint seminar series. Her talk was entitled “Integrating Liquid Biopsy and Multimodal Technologies for Cancer Monitoring.

Prof. Pratt gave an invited seminar entitled “Integrating Liquid Biopsy and Multimodal Technologies for Cancer Monitoring” at Jefferson’s Health Sidney Kimmel Cancer center. She was invited and hosted by Dr. Terry Hyslop

The following projects will be presented during the 2023 BMES Annual Meeting, held October 11th - 14th in Seattle, WA: “Optimization and Expansion of Digital PCR Multiplexing for Rare Mutation Detection” presented by Colin Skeen in the Imaging Strategies in Cancer Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognosis session on October 13th from 8:30-8:45 AM.

Congratulations to Hanhminh Nguyen on receiving funding for Fall semester from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program!

We are very excited to extend a warm congratulations and welcome to our newest undergraduate researcher, Terry Chen. Terry was awarded an Undergraduate Research Program grant through BU STEM Pathways. He is currently in his sophomore year in the BU BME program.

Congratulations to Loran Gliford on being selected to be a trainee in the NIH T32 Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology (SB2) Training Program at BU! The training fellowship provides funding for the next two years.

We are very excited to extend a warm welcome to our Jackelyn (“Jacky”) Merida. Jacky joins us as part of the STEM Pathways program at BU. Maren Eltze will mentor Jacky as she works on her own research project.

Congratulations to former rotation student, Tori (Florence) Guerina. Tori has officially joined Meg Younger’s Lab in the Department of Biology. Onwards and upwards!

Congratulations to Kate Lee on completing her BS in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University! Well done!