Brilliant science and autumn inspiration at the UMass Cancer Biology Retreat @UMassChan @UMassCancerCtr! Kudos to Favour Akabogu for an invited talk and Yi-Hsuan Hsieh for the TOP POSTER award — #Sarcoma research shining even brighter than the New England fall leaves!

Terrific spotlight by @UMassChan on PhD candidate @FavourFavvycool highlighting Favour’s outstanding accomplishments and work on #sarcoma & #GIST, and well-deserved accolades for her research and presentations! www.umassmed.edu/news/news-ar...

PhD candidate Favour Akabogu is working to develop new therapies for a rare type of sarcoma called gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), a tumor that develops throughout the gastrointestinal tract: direc.to/nQ_m #StudentSpotlight #Research #PhD @sarcomalab.bsky.social

Congratulations to Favour Akabogu for being awarded the Vertex Biomedical Science Career Scholarship! Favour also won FIRST PRIZE for her oral presentation on #gastrointestinalstromaltumor #sarcoma at the New England Science Symposium!

The National Leiomyosarcoma Foundation is pleased to announce that it will be funding a two-year LMS research grant for 2026-2027. Please see the following link for information on applying, and we look forward to receiving your LMS-specific proposals! leiomyosarcoma.info/general-rese...