Claudia named a Cancer Consortium New Investigator 2024 🎉
The Vásquez lab received a New Investigator Award from the Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium to use the developing renal system of the fruit fly as a model to identify the fundamental cellular processes driving loose collective cell migration and MET – which are both essential developmental programs and steps in metastasis.
Seizing the summer days with the Kwon Lab
Together with our friends in the Kwon Lab , we took to Golden Gardens to grill and have a beautiful afternoon.
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We also went kayaking near UW! Everyone survived, some of us even had fun!
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Highschool interns – Melissa and Rishik
Melissa and Rishik are back for another summer in the Vásquez Lab. Rishik is working with Isabel and Melissa is working with Vesta.
They both still like boba.
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