News.
2026
June 27 — Lab celebration of Irem Karaman's acceptance to Internal Medicine Residency at Florida International University/Baptist Health.
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March 30 — Saifun Nahar moves to DiscoverTME after a 5-year postdoc at the National Cancer Institute.
2025
October 15 — Awarded a Florida Department of Health grant to develop bacterial extracellular vesicles for lung cancer.
March 15 — Carolina de la Peña Fernandez and Justin Ruiz join DiscoverTME for their dissertation research
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February 26 — Lab members host surprise 1-yr anniversary celebration
2024
September 1 — American Brain Tumor Association Discovery Grant awarded to expand research of mitochondria transfer in brain tumors
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June 23 — Irem Karaman joins DiscoverTME after recently graduating from Med School in Turkey 🇹🇷
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May 1 — First lab NIH grant get activated! (Dennis' career development award)
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February 26 — Official start-date for DiscoverTME lab!
2023
November 18 — Oral presentation of mitochondria transfer discovery generates lots of interest in the Cancer Neuroscience session of the Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting.
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August 23 — Perspective article describing the interconnected nature of protumorigenic pathways in glioblastoma published in Trends in Cancer, in close collaboration with Bayik Lab
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April 6 — Discovery of protumorigenic role of mitochondria transfer in GBM published in Nature Cancer. This work was part of postdoctoral training in the lab of Dr. Justin Lathia.
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April 3 — Dennis Watson received Notice of Award for K99/R00 career development grant from the National Cancer Institute.
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January — Dennis Watson joined University of Miami as an Instructor.
