Congrats Caitlynn Barrows for successfully defending her PhD this week at @mda-uthgrad.bsky.social. Co-mentored by
@siwyoung.bsky.social and Mary (Cindy) Farach-Carson, she's the 1st PhD student to graduate from our lab. So proud of her amazing work with human salivary gland stem/progenitor cells.

Congratulations to @mda-uthgrad.bsky.social PhD student Andrea Molina Hernandez for winning an AACR MICR Travel Award to present her work in intratumoral cytokine therapy for head and neck cancer at the @theaacr.bsky.social Annual Meeting. Check out her poster on 4/28/25! #AACR25

Congrats Young Lab trainees for showcasing your work!
@riceuniversity.bsky.social undergrads Arman Hassan and Riya Pagilla discussed polarizing myeloid cells w/ STING agonists and new MDP hydrogels and @mda-uthgrad.bsky.social student Gema Sunga won 1st place at ACTS for her OSCC TME project! 💪

Congratulations to @utsdhouston.bsky.social DS2 student Shawn Nguyen for winning the @aadocrnsrg.bsky.social Outstanding Regional Representative award and being selected to present his work on phenotyping the oral cancer immune microenvironment at this year's @aadocr.bsky.social SCADA competition!

Excited to welcome Alejandra Cobos Perez to our lab as a new PhD graduate student! She will be co-mentored by
Omid Veiseh and Simon Young as she develops biomaterial-encapsulated micro-cytokine factories to treat oral cancer, as an ongoing collab between Young/Lee (UT) and Veiseh/Tabor (Rice)

Lots of great research presented at UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry Student Research Showcase today! Arman Hassan, Shawn Nguyen, Andrea Molina Hernandez, Gemalene Sunga, Alejandra Cobos Perez, Caitlynn Barrows, Audra Boehm, Neeraja Dharmaraj, Nourhan Hussein repping
Young Lab projects 👍🧪