Happy holidays from the Dimitroff Lab!

Congratulations to senior undergraduate Gabriella Santos for being one of the three students selected to receive the 2024 American Association of Immunologist (AAI) Young Scholar Award! Her selection was based on her oral presentation she completed this past November at Phoenix!

🔬✨Exciting News from the #DimitroffLab✨🔬 Our paper "Tumor-intrinsic galectin-3 suppresses melanoma metastasis" has been published; it reveals novel mechanisms in metastasis! Discover our groundbreaking findings at sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #Cancerresearch #Glycobiology

🔬✨Exciting News from the Dimitroff Lab ✨🔬 Our paper "The role of galectins in mediating the adhesion of circulating cells to vascular endothelium" has been published! Discover our groundbreaking findings at doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.… #CancerResearch #glycobiology #galectins

🔬✨Exciting News from the Dimitroff Lab ✨🔬 Our latest paper, "Galectin-9 – ligand axis: an emerging therapeutic target for multiple myeloma," is now published! Discover our innovative findings at doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.… #CancerResearch #Glycobiology #Galectins #MultipleMyeloma

Huge congratulations to Ismaray Govea for earning first place at the Office of Undergraduate Research and Internships Fall Symposium for her groundbreaking melanoma research! #FIUResearch #MelanomaResearch #CancerBiology #WomenInSTEM #UndergraduateResearch #FIUMARC

Happy Holidays from the Dimitroff Lab ✨🎉🔬

🎉 Huge congratulations to Brandon Fernandez for graduating from Florida International University with a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences! 🎓🌟 A special shoutout to Brandon’s family, the Dimitroff Lab, and the SEA-PHAGES program for their incredible support.

🎉 Big congratulations to Beatriz Andarcio for getting accepted into Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine! 🐾 We can't wait to see you thrive as you embark on this exciting journey to become a veterinarian.💚 #FutureVet #MSUPride #VetSchoolBound 🎓

🎉 Congratulations to Alexandra Firek on matching at Broward Health’s Dermatology Residency Program! 🏥✨ Wishing you the best on this exciting journey! 🔬👩‍⚕️💙 #MatchDay #FutureDermatologist #BrowardHealth

🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to our Ph.D. student, Joseph Souchak, on his induction into Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society! 👏👏💙💛 We’re proud to see him achieve this honor!

🎉🎉Congratulations to our three lab members, Olivia Jose, Brandon Fernandez, and Aiza Berdalinova for presenting at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Conference at FIU (URFIU)!!👏👏

👏👏Congratulations to members of the Translational Glycobiology Institute at FIU for presenting at the 4th Annual South Florida Translational Research Symposium!! 🔬

🥳🥳 Congratulations to our lab members, Aiza Berdalinova and Ismaray Govea, for presenting at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR 2025)!!! 👏👏🔬🧪 #NCUR2025 #FIUMedicine #DimitroffLab

Huge congratulations to our amazing PI, Dr. Charles Dimitroff, on being named a 2025 FIU Top Scholar! We're incredibly proud and grateful to have such an inspiring leader guiding our lab. #FIUTopScholars #FIUMed #DimitroffLab

🧬Our latest study is now published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences! 📖 Read here: mdpi.com/1422-0067/26/1… Congrats to Dr. Norhan B. B. Mohammed, Ph.D student Rajib K. Shil, and Dr. Dimitroff! #CancerResearch #FIUMedicine #Glycobiology

We are happy to share that Lee Seng Lau successfully defended her doctoral dissertation! 💙🎓 Lee's research focuses on improving CAR-T cell therapy for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, opening the door to smarter and stronger glycoengineered CAR-T cells. Congratulations!!!

Congratulations to Maria Suarez for successfully participating in FIU HWCOM’s Summer Research Fellowship Program! In this program, M1, M2, and pre-matriculants presented research they conducted over the summer and reflected on their experiences during a final presentation.