News Archive
Members of the Chiappinelli Lab visted J.C. Nalle Elementary School's first annual STEM fair. These future scientists hypothesized which form of strawberries (fresh, frozen, or jam) would yield the most DNA and then extracted the DNA!
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!