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Be sure to catch Plenary Session 2: Transcriptional, Post-Transcriptional, and Epigenetic Regulation in Urological Diseases—next at #SBUR2025!

#SBUR2025 is officially underway! Learn about Innovative Models and Technologies in Urological Research and more at #SBUR2025!

We’re just two days away from the SBUR 2025 Fall Meeting! Share your journey with the community — post a travel selfie and tag #SBUR2025 to let everyone know you’re on the way!

Meet our next 2024 SBUR Travel Awardee: Songqi Zhang from the University of Massachusetts Boston! "My poster, “Lysine methylation of FOXA1 alters its chromatin binding and represses E2F signaling,” examines the impact of FOXA1 methylation on prostate cancer progression. 1/4

STARTING NOW—Join us for the #SBUR Summer Trainee Webinar! Open to all SBUR members, this new platform highlights trainee research. Register now to learn more about kidney, testicular, urothelial and penile diseases: buff.ly/xmP9xeL

Congratulations to Chenming Ye, from the University of Georgia, who received an SBUR 2024 Travel Award and was selected for podium presentation! "My study has demonstrated biological vectors to deliver CRISPR machinery for targeting androgen receptor in prostate cancer cells. 1/3

THIS WEEK—Don't miss the #SBUR Summer Trainee Webinar! Open to all SBUR members, this new platform highlights trainee research. Join us on Friday, August 22 at 4:00 PM ET to learn about kidney, testicular, urothelial and penile diseases. Register now: buff.ly/xmP9xeL

DUE TODAY—The #SBUR2025 Call for Abstracts is closing soon! All abstracts submitted will be considered for selection as an in-person poster presentation at the SBUR Annual Meeting in Orlando from November 13 - 16, 2025. Submit now before it’s too late: lnkd.in/gSFTXzXg

DUE TOMORROW—The #SBUR2025 Call for Abstracts is closing soon! All abstracts submitted will be considered for selection as an in-person poster presentation at the SBUR Annual Meeting in Orlando from November 13 - 16, 2025. Submit now before it’s too late: tinyurl.com/4z7hje65

Register now to SAVE! Early bird prices for #SBUR2025 are ending soon. Secure your spot by August 15 to take advantage of discounted rates. Hurry, before it's too late: buff.ly/jjAytly

🎉Meet our next 2024 SBUR Travel Award Winner, Heiko Yang, MD, PhD from UCSF! "We created a low-cost normothermic ex vivo kidney perfusion device to study intact kidneys outside the body. We hope to use this platform as a new tool for urologic discovery. 1/2

Huge congratulations to the 2024 Eula and Donald S. Coffey Innovation Award winner, Daniel Triner, MD, PhD, from the University of Michigan! "Our research is focused on developing a patient derived organoid platform for rapid drug testing,... 1/2

DUE TODAY—Submit your nominations for the 2025 Mentorship Award before it's too late! This award was established in honor of Dr. Leland W.K. Chung who devoted his entire career to urologic cancer research. Check your email to learn more: buff.ly/m2g4wNM

DUE THIS WEEK—Submit your nominations for the 2025 Mentorship Award before it's too late! This award was established in honor of Dr. Leland W.K. Chung who devoted his entire career to urologic cancer research. Check your email to learn more: buff.ly/m2g4wNM

🚨 Please join us in congratulating Nikhila Suresh, PhD from Purdue University — our next featured 2024 SBUR Travel Award Winner! 👏 "My research explores how inflammation influences epithelial differentiation in benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH). 1/4

STARTING SOON—Join us for the next SBUR Summer Trainee Webinar! Open to all SBUR members, this new platform highlights trainee research. The bladder diseases installment begins today at 4:00 PM ET. Secure Your Spot Before It's Too Late: buff.ly/6aU7XDu #SBUR

📢 Join us for the next SBUR Summer Trainee Webinar — tomorrow, Friday, July 25 at 4 PM ET. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect and learn! Sign up here to receive the Zoom link: buff.ly/6aU7XDu

🎉 Meet our next 2024 SBUR Travel Awardee: Dr. Galina Semenova, MD, PhD, from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center! She was also selected for a podium presentation—congrats, Dr. Semenova! "I was honored to present my recent work on the development of combinatorial antibody-drug... 1/4

THIS WEEK—Don't miss the next SBUR Summer Trainee Webinar! Open to all SBUR members, this new platform highlights trainee research. Join us on Friday, July 25 at 4:00 PM ET to learn more about bladder diseases. Secure Your Spot Today: buff.ly/6aU7XDu #SBUR

Congratulations to Felipe Rodriguez-Tirado, PhD, from Nationwide Children’s Hospital, for his 2024 SBUR Travel Award and podium presentation! "Urinary tract obstruction (UTO) triggers a protective adaptation in the renal urothelium, but regulatory mechanisms... 1/4

Congratulations to Alexandra L. Polasko, PhD, from Stanford University, for her 2024 SBUR Travel Award and for her selection as a Eula and Donald S. Coffey Innovation Award Finalist! "My SBUR presentation/poster highlighted the characterization and pre-clinical testing... 1/6

TOMORROW—Don't miss the new SBUR Summer Trainee Webinar! Open to all SBUR members, this new platform will highlight trainee research. Join us on Friday, June 27 at 4:00 PM ET to learn more about prostate diseases. Register here before it's too late: buff.ly/UeB2Us5

🚨 Exciting news from SBUR! 🚨 We’re launching the SBUR Summer Trainee Webinar Series – a new platform to highlight trainee research! Open to all SBUR members. First webinar: Friday, June 27, 2025 | 4:00 PM EDT / 1:00 PM PDT 👉 Register here: veritasamc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Congratulations to Jude Owiredu from Weill Cornell Medicine who was selected as a Eula and Donald S. Coffey Innovation Award Finalist! "In our efforts to dissect the underlying epigenomic landscape changes dictating prostate tumorigenesis, we have found that... 1/3

Congratulations to Shaghayegh Nouruzi, PhD, from the University of British Columbia, Canada, for her SBUR Travel Award! "My presentation at the SBUR highlighted findings from our recent study published in JCI Insight, “ASCL1 regulates and cooperates with FOXA2 to drive... 1/4

Meet Mostafa Nasr, an SBUR Travel Award Winner from the University of South Florida, who was also selected for podium presentation! "Induction of the transcription factor, PRDM16, in prostate cancer cells is critical for the initiation of an intrinsic dormancy program that... 1/2

Congratulations to Shiqin Liu, MD, PhD, from UCLA for her SBUR Travel Award! "Metastasis remains the leading cause of prostate cancer-associated deaths, highlighting the urgent need to determine the mechanisms underlying prostate cancer progression." 1/4

Meet our next featured trainee: Mingyu Liu, MS, from UMass Boston! Mingyu earned an SBUR Travel Award and was selected for a podium presentation—congrats! "We designed a workflow called Super-Enhancer Analysis for Lineages, and identified three... 1/3

Congratulations to Hunain Khawaja, MS, from the University of Arizona for his SBUR Travel Award! "My work aims to explore the role of mechanical forces on prostate epithelial differentiation and how those factors can contribute to prostate oncogenesis. 1/3

Join us at #AUA25! Don't miss out on the educational event of the year, and secure your spot now for the the SBUR and SBUR SUO Spring Programs at #AUA25 in Las Vegas! Learn more + register here: buff.ly/adwzsL4 #sbur #urology #SBURatAUA

Congratulations to Ashley Jackson, PhD, from Nationwide Children`s Hospital for her SBUR Travel Award! " Childhood urinary tract obstruction (UTO) is met with limited treatment options and represents a leading cause of chronic and end-stage kidney disease in children. 1/4

Congratulations to Jennifer Heritz from SUNY Upstate Medical University who received the SBUR Travel Award and was also selected for podium presentation! "The development and progression of the most common type of kidney cancer, clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC),...

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Congratulations to Krinio Giannikou, PhD, from UCSD for her SBUR Travel Award and podium presentation! "The awarded poster highlighted our recent work on TSC1-mutant bladder cancer (TSC1mBLCA), which is a distinct molecular subtype with a gene expression profile mirroring...

Congratulations to Sander Frank, PhD, SBUR Travel Awardee, from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center! "Our poster focused on trying to better understand the consequences of CDK12 mutation in advanced prostate cancer and identify effective and targeted therapeutic strategies."

We are thrilled to introduce our first trainee Travel Awardee, Gada Awdalkreem, MBBS, MSc. Here is how she described her research: "Our poster effectively elucidated the development of the NEPC cell line derived from androgen -sensitive MyC-CaP cell line, it highlighted the...

Congratulations to all the 2024 SBUR Fall Meeting Travel Award Winners! Over the coming weeks, we'll be featuring each awardee's exciting research. Stay tuned!