David Garcia Grisales, UMD physics Ph.D. student in the NCI-UMD Partnership Program, recently published two first-author papers in Molecular Cell and Nucleic Acids Research. Garcia Grisales is a student in Gordon Hager’s lab at NCI and Arpita Upadhyaya’s lab at UMD.

Program student in Eytan Ruppin’s and Bríd Ryan’s labs and Steve Mount’s lab at UMD. Sanju has developed innovative computational approaches for analyzing diverse types of cancer omics data.

UMD-NCI Ph.D. program student in Gordon Hager’s lab and Arpita Upadhyaya’s lab at UMD. David’s work has uncovered important new aspects of transcription factor (TF) dynamics and its relation with gene regulation.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a CAREER grant to Professor Pratyush Tiwary, IPST/Chemistry & Biochemistry, for his proposal "Learning to learn - Artificial Intelligence Augmented Chemistry for Molecular Simulations and Beyond".

Brian Ondov, UMD computer science Ph.D. student in the NCI-UMD Partnership Program, published a first-author paper titled "Revealing Perceptual Proxies with Adversarial Examples" in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics in October 2020.

Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BIOE) Assistant Professor Huang Chiao (Joe) Huang received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trailblazer R21 Award for New and Early Stage Investigators from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). This three-year, $621,000 award will support Huang’s efforts to develop a novel light-based technology to improve drug delivery across the blood-brain tumor barrier.

Simona Patange, a biophysics doctoral degree candidate and member of the NCI-UMD Partnership program, will be the graduate student speaker for the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences’ May Commencement Celebration. Patange’s advisors were Michelle Girvan (IPST/Physics/Biophysics), Daniel Larson and David Levens from the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI).




Milos Nikolic, UMD biophysics Ph.D. student and NCI-UMD Partnership student, and Giuliano Scarcelli, assistant professor in UMD's Fischell Department of Bioengineering, co-authored a paper with colleagues that was published on April 3, 2020, in the journal Small.

Mary Pitman, UMD-NCI program student, is an inaugural co-recipient of the NIH Center for Cancer Research (CCR), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award. The Center established the award in recognition of their contribution as a group, and to highlight some of the best Ph.D. work in the CCR laboratories. Over 100 students across clinical and basic science labs–including UMD, JHU and Oxford–were considered.

Mary Pitman, a Ph.D. student in chemistry and member of the NCI-UMD Partnership program, published a first-author paper "Minimal Cylinder Analysis Reveals the Mechanical Properties of Oncogenic Nucleosomes" with co-authors Yamini Dalal (NIH/NCI) and Garegin Papoian (Chemistry and Biochemistry/IPST). The paper was published online February 11, 2020, in Biophysical Journal.