Sapanabear, Ph.D Candidate
Two special notes about Sapanabear!
She successfully passed her orals last month and is an official Ph.D candidate in Cancer Biology at the esteemed University of Chicago. Huzzah! By all accounts, she’s got it made. Her group is led by a doctor professor that any graduate student would pine to have as their PI, and her fellow labmates are a tightknit, scary smart, and light hearted cadre of friends. It is reported that others in the biological sciences department have started to refer to her lab as the ‘fun group’‘, an admirable feat at the University of Chicago, whose unofficial motto is “where fun comes to die.” Her thesis by the way?
a case-control genome-wide association study of genetic susceptibility for the development of therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia (t-AML)
Yeah. I tried reading her proposal last year and finally acknowledged that she’s smarter than I am.
The other news! Sapana is first author on an editorial in the soon to be published issue of Leukemia Research. It’s on “Translating genetic questions into clinical answers in acute myeloid leukemia”, and now I need to somehow figure out what that really means.
mom Said,
August 6, 2009 @ 2:32 pm
What a glowing praise for Sapu. We are all so proud of her.