News Archive

Dr. Chiappinelli is the winner of the Clara Bliss Hinds Mentorship Award

Check out the latest perspective by PhD candidate Trace Walker and Dr. Chiappinelli on how protein exaptation by ERVs promotes an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment.

Congrats to Tomas and all co-authors for their publication on how oncogenic transformation results in the de-repression of TEs published in Cancer Research.

On July 20, 2023, Tomas Kanholm defended his thesis! Tomas is the second PhD graduate from the Chiappinelli lab.

Khadra Omar presented at AACR 2023

Dr. Chiappinelli with Dr. Soto-Feliciano and Dr. Schrump, chaired a session at the annual AACR meeting.

In March of 2023, The Scientist wrote an article titled, "Jumping Genes' Role in Cancer" which highlighted work being done in the Chiappinelli lab.

Congrats to PhD candidate Trace Walker on publishing a book chapter in Advances in Cancer Research.

On September 27, 2022, the Chiappinelli lab had their first PhD candidate, Stephanie Gomez, defend their thesis! Congrats to Stephanie Gomez, PhD!

Medical Students, James Castro Argueta and Noor Diab, in collaboration with the GW Chapter of the ASCO Oncology Student Interest Group, are fundraising for the Foundation for Women’s Cancer’s (FWC) Move4Her campaign throughout September.