We are excited to welcome our newest CORE Fellows! This year, we are welcoming our second cohort of 30 Cultivating Opportunity & Realizing Excellence (CORE) Leadership Program Fellows. Stay tuned for updates! #CORE2022

As the CORE program reached its final week, Fellows met with their teams and their medical school mentors to finalize their Incubating Change projects on health disparities. Join us for their presentations tomorrow from 6-9pm ET! RSVP link: forms.gle/oXvuH9PMuU3yd9…. #CORE2022

Doc Lab welcomed our latest Doc - Dr. Jiayang Chen Jiayang (Wiki) Chen, PhD!! Jiayang presented a wonderful thesis on his #MYT1L studies, made his audience cry with his acknowledgement, and recognized Joe Dougherty's mentorship with hand-written calligraphy! Jiayang, we will miss you dearly!

A year in the making! Today we crowned the champion of our DocOlympics™️ Ping Ping tournament. In the finale, we had Jiayang “I’m leaving for a real salary” Jiayang (Wiki) Chen, PhD - Allen “he’s finally gone!” Yen faced off in what, according to Jiayang, was supposed to be a quick 2x 11-4 win

What a special & inspiring day! Emilee Kotnik’s hooding ceremony was filled w excitement - symbolizes years of work and new discoveries in ovarian cancer. #papercomingsoon ⁦@tripleEkotnik⁩ ⁦@WUSTLdbbs⁩ ⁦IMSD_WUSTL⁩ ⁦GYN Cancer | #GYNCSM⁩ #luckytobeapart

Celebrate Latiné and Hispanic Heritage at WashU's Noche de Cultura! 🎉 this 2 night event will be a great start to the weekend and an oppronuity to learn, make friends, and immerse yourself. RSVP can be found at linktr.ee/wustl_sacnas

Congratulations to the newest class of the Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN)! The 75 talented undergrads will gain hands-on research experience under the mentorship of early career scientists incl. grad students & postdocs. simonsfoundation.org/2023/09/26/sim…

For all undergrads interested in the SURFiN neuroscience fellowship, the informational webinar begins today (Thursday 4/11) at 12noon ET! It will be recorded and posted later, but come today to ask your questions live. Register & find additional info here: simonsfoundation.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

I’m thrilled to have joined Dougherty Lab WashU lab members at Simons Foundation’s first annual SURFiN Symposium in NYC! I’m endlessly grateful for the opportunity to present my research and engage with experts dedicated to supporting underrepresented minorities in science 🧬

This is my mom. She was an asylum seeker. She slept in a church b/c she had nowhere else to go. She is a housekeeper & a waitress. She is my hero. These degrees are for her. Harvard Medical School, M.D. ✅ Harvard Business School, M.B.A. ✅ Harvard Kennedy School of Government,