The holiday festivities are well on their way! Check out our USC team including members from our different cores and some of our trainees, celebrating the holidays with a cookie decorating party! #care2 #cancerresearch #nci #happyholidays

📢 Next week is the Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos conference @UTHealthSAMDA, there is still time to register 👇👇👇 latinocancer.com Be part of the conversation of how to eliminate cancer disparities among Latino populations! 💪✌️💖#LatinoCancer2024

What amazingly powerful stories of how survivorship and endurance can open the door to advocacy. #LatinoCancer2024 #latinos #CancerCare #Cancer #Advocacy #RepresentationMatters

Members of the AACR are kicking off the final day of the Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos conference by discussing cancer disparities #LatinoCancer2024 #latinos #CancerResearch #cancer

ASCL conference, it’s always a pleasure to reconnect with colleagues/friends, network, and have two of my research work presented! Proud to be surrounded in a community that’s supporting and push me through my career path. #LatinoCancer2024 Population and Public Health Sciences at USC Salud America! @YASurvivors

Fortunate to be part of the bi-annual Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos Conference this week and to share how Count Me In Low Grade Glioma Registry USC COPECC in PE-CGS are striving to optimize Hispanic/Latino engagement in their cancer genomics research.

What a treat to attend the 4th #LatinoCancer2024 conference in beautiful San Antonio, sharing our work from USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center USC COPECC & CaRE2HEC, meeting with friends & getting inspired to continue working to eliminate disparities among Latino populations! 🥰

Thank you AACR & Amelie Ramirez for inviting me to participate in this panel at #LatinoCancer2024 to talk about the amazing work & commitment of AACR to reduce cancer disparities 🥰

👏gr8 to see #eoCRC #research incl. studies🧐at #sociodemographic disparities Our March 6🖥️w/Mariana Stern & #PeterLance will🔎on "Building Trust & Resources in #CRC Research: Strategies for Community Engagement, Biospecimen Collection & Addressing Disparities" @SanjeevaniArora

Check out our new study Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention reporting on genome-wide gene-environment interaction analyses between red meat, processed meat & #colorectalcancer. Our findings support a role for SMAD7 in red meat induced colorectal carcinogenesis. 👇👇👇 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38112776/

🎙NEW EPISODE: Mariana Stern, PhD, discusses COGENES, an initiative that trains Hispanic or Latinx community advocates & educators on colorectal cancer prevention, genetic testing, & the importance of community members participating in cancer research. 🎧:keck.usc.edu/pphs/podcast/

Thank you Population and Public Health Sciences at USC for inviting me to talk about our USC COPECC CoGENES program that I co-lead with the amazing Lourdes Baezconde-G USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center along with an incredible team of experts! to learn more about our program and team visit our site 👇: usccopecc.org/cogenes-progra…

Wonderful interview with Mariana Stern and her important work.

Many🙏to Mariana Stern & #PeterLance for their💎presentations during our March 6💻on Building Trust & Resources in #CRC🔬-Strategies for Community Engagement, Biospecimen Collection, & Addressing Disparities 👀the📜by our Comms Cttee member Ophir Gilad 👉tinyurl.com/5cp9z728

Check out our new study exploring a genetic link between colorectal cancer and red meat intake medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-l… via Medical Xpress

🎙Cancer epidemiologist Mariana Stern spoke to NPR about the evolution of cancer treatments. Click below to listen to her episode about how far treatment options have come. npr.org/2024/03/04/119…

📢Grant writing tip for success - "If you have one idea that you find exciting, that makes you want to spend all that time in front of the computer - Don't give up on it. Find a way to get it done... Something good always comes out of that process." Mariana Stern #AACRECR #AACR24

Beyond the results of your #grant application, something #good always comes out from the #process. Great take home message from Mariana Stern to start w the Grant Writing Workshop at #AACR2024. Terrific program for the first PAS of the 2024 Annual Meeting AACR

⁦AACR⁩ annual meeting in San Diego with #LatinoScientists ⁦Mariana Stern⁩ ⁦Elena Martinez⁩ Luis Carvajal Carmona y Jose Aparicio ⁦UC San Diego Health⁩

✨Mariana Stern, PhD, has been appointed as Population and Public Health Sciences at USC Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. She looks forward to expanding her ongoing efforts to train the next generation of underrepresented minority public health scholars, & lead efforts to increase diversity (cont'd)⬇️