9/27/23: Dr. Rickard was selected as one of two winners of this year's Team Minnow Tank Competition

The Mowery lab is proud to announce that Dr. Ashlyn Rickard was selected and competed as a finalist at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center 2023 Annual Scientific Retreat for the Team Minnow Tank Competition. This competition was an opportunity for trainees to propose a high risk research idea that has the possibility to yield a high reward. Dr. Rickard proposed a research idea focused around creating a more specific GEMM for HPV negative head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. The proposed model would allow for more targeted tumor formation in areas that have been extremely difficult to mimic in mouse models, such as opharyngeal cancer. Through the presentation, Dr. Rickard was selected as one of two winners of this year's Team Minnow Tank Competition and was awarded funding for this project proposal! The Mowery lab extends our congratulations to Dr. Rickard for her innovative idea and success with the Team Minnow Tank Competition.