The NCI Cancer Education Program 2016 cohort of 35 undergraduate and professional students from UofL and across the country will present their research projects at Research!Louisville scheduled for October 11-14.

The professional students present Tuesday afternoon Oct 11 and the undergraduate students present on Wednesday afternoon Oct 12.

A listing of the 2016 class, their faculty mentors, their institutions, and their abstracts are available at link. 

Student research posters are available at link.

Special congratulations to Christian Bradley (from Howard University) and Tiana Martin (from Spelman College) who were recently notified that their cancer project abstracts were accepted for oral presentations at the Global Prostate Cancer Disparities in Black Men Conference scheduled for November in Orlando, FL.  The faculty mentor for both students is Dr. La Creis Kidd, Our Highest Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology.