Congratulations to Tigist Tamir of Ben Major’s lab for successfully defending her PhD!
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The title of Tig’s defense talk which she gave Oct. 25 was “Identification and characterization of kinase regulators in KEAP1/NPF2 signaling.”
In 2016 as a third-year graduate student, and while she was a T32 training grant appointee, Tig was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Gilliam Fellowship in support of her research on cell-signaling mechanisms that could provide new targets for treating cancer.
Tig’s journey to becoming a scientist was also highlighted in UNC SOM Vital Signs News
In January, 2020 Tig will become a postdoc in the Forest White lab at MIT.
We wish you all the best, Tig!
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