Congratulations to former lab member Patrick Jonker for being awarded the UChicago CCB Thesis Award for his work on vulnerabilities in lipid metabolism in pancreatic tumor.

Thank you to the Pancreatic Cancer Action for supporting Colin from our team to travel to the PanCAN Scientific Summit and AACR Pancreatic Cancer Meeting this year to discuss his work on metabolic drivers of therapy resistance.

Congratulations to Patricia from our team for being awarded a La Caixa fellowship to fund her work on tumor and brain metabolism!

Exciting new work from Colin in our team on how chronic nutrient stress in pancreatic cancer triggers therapy resistance. Check it out!

Congratulations to Dr. Patrick Jonker who defended his thesis today!

Congrats to Lyndon Hu in the lab for his Fulbright Award to study pancreatic cancer in Germany next year!

Alex was interviewed on the role of metabolism in tumor biology in advance of the upcoming AACR Annual meeting in Chicago by Technology Networks. Link.

Congratulations to everyone from both labs on the exciting discovery that phosphoethanolamine, a metabolite not previously implicated in immunity, is enriched in tumors and suppresses T cell function and immunotherapy. Lot of exciting work to come to leverage this finding for new methods to improve immunotherapies. Check out the paper, the News and Views, and coverage from the UChicago Cancer Center.

Big congratulations to Patrick Jonker who led a new study from our team determining that pancreatic cancers are sensitive to dietary polyunsaturated fats due to constraints placed on the tumor by the microenvironment. Check it out!