ASHANI WEERATNA, associate professor and program leader in the Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis Program, was named the Ira Brind Associate Professor at the Wistar Institute. Weeraratna’s primary research focus is how melanoma metastasizes and how changes in the tumor microenvironment might initiate the disease’s spread or make it resistant to treatment. She is also a...
Kevan Shokat, a professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UC San Francisco, has won the second annual Stephenson Global Prize for research in pancreatic cancer.
