Jake Shaw and Caleb Konecek win at the ABRCMS Poster Presentation

Exciting News! Jake Shaw and Caleb Konecek, CBC undergraduates, win at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) poster presentation!

Jake Shaw shares his experience:

"I am honored to have been able to attend the 2024 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists #ABRCMS in Pittsburgh, PA from Nov 13–16 along with over 6,000 researchers. My experience was made possible by a travel award received from ABRCMS and my research was funded by NLM award number R25 LM01422 through the PHIRE program.

I had an incredible time at the conference hearing from researchers tackling complex public health problems through biological, chemical, and computational research. Through this experience I was able to present a novel prodrug design for selectively depriving cancer cells of iron, an essential nutrient for cellular growth, in my poster presentation “Intracellular Iron Binding Strategies for Cancer Therapeutics” for which I was honored to receive a $350 award in the chemistry category.

I was joined by my fellow CBC students Tyler Martinez, Marc Garcia, Gwen McKay, Forrest Zepezauer, and Caleb Konecek, who also received an award in the biochemistry and molecular biology category. Also in attendance from CBC was Dr. Katrina Miranda. While in Pittsburgh, I spent an afternoon exploring the city, including visiting the Andy Warhol Museum and a local cafe."