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CaNCURE trains students to transform cancer treatment
Amanda Stroiney, who is developing a mobile app that delivers personalized treatment information to people with breast cancer, never expected to work in the field

CaNCURE opens door to medical school
Biochemistry student Brian Cortese found mentorship, experience, and opportunities through the CaNCURE program. After a six-month research co-op followed by volunteer work in his CaNCURE

Students explore nanomedicine research with CaNCURE
In August 2014 we announced an exciting new cancer nanomedicine research co-op program called CaNCURE, which gives scores of Northeastern students the opportunity to work

Cancer researchers are everyday heros. They work to understand how cancer grows, develop better treatments, and improve patient quality of life. This is my vision of what a cancer researcher looks like…
Alexis Robinson, ’22
2021 CaNCURE Trainee
CaNCURE Happenings

Brian Shim wins 2 Peak Awards
Brian Shim (BIOL, ‘23) was awarded NU’s Peak Ascent Award to support a second co-op in CaNCURE’s Hahn Lab at DFCI. Between CaNCURE co-ops, Brian

Zachary Chau wins award at RISE
Zachary Chau (BIOE/BIOC ‘24) was awarded top prize in teh interdisciplinary category at NEU’s 2022 Research, Innovation, & Scholarship Expo for a research poster titled

Julie Na Yoon Kim wins NU Co-op Award
Julie Na Yoon Kim (CHME ’21) was recognized by NU’s College of Engineering for having shown great promise and intellectual fortitude throughout her co-op experiences.

Q&A with cancer researcher Victoria D’Agostino
Victoria D’Agostino (BIOE ‘19) was recently featured in Duke University’s GWHT YouTube Student Spotlight Series for her PhD research on breast cancer metastasis. Check out

Bryanna takes over NU’s Instagram
Bryanna Testino (CMOL ’23) took over NU’s Instagram account for a day to talk about her CaNCURE Co-op at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Check out

Sagi Ravid wins Fulbright Award
Sagi Ravid (CHME, ‘21) has been awarded a Fulbright Research Study Grant to conduct research in nanoparticles for cancer immunotherapy with Dr. Maria Jose Alonso

Daem Celestin honored as Huntington 100
On April 22, CaNCURE trainee Daem Celestin (Health Sciences ’19) was inducted into Northeastern’s Huntington 100. Other CaNCURE students who won this prestigious award include

Mahimasri Kotamreddy receives 2021 President’s Award
Mahimasri Kotamreddy (BIOL, MATH ’21) was recognized by NU’s President Aoun for excellence in academics, research, and experiential learning.

Benjamin Dottinger wins RISE2021
Benjamin Dottinger (Health Sci, ‘23) received a Research, Innovation, Scholarship & Entrepreneurship Award at NU’s annual RISE conference for a poster titled, “What MRI Can

Na Yoon Kim recieves COE Co-op Award
Na Yoon Kim (CHME ’21) was one of 15 undergraduates recognized by NU’s College of Engineering for having shown great promise and intellectual fortitude throughout

Holly Chadwick recieves Honors Propel Grant
After volunteering with Global Medical Brigades (GMB) in Panama and Honduras, Holly Chadwick (COS’23) was awarded an Honors Propel Grant to pursue research investigating common

Evan Mun wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Evan Mun (BIOC, ’20) was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. in Bioengineering research at Caltech. The NSF GRF

Zoe Bishop wins Fulbright Award
Zoe Bishop, Biochemistry ’19, has received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in South Korea, as well as educate locals about racial and ethnic disparities

Daem Celestin wins RISE2019
Daem Celestin, Biology ’21, was awarded the Undergraduate Best Physical and Life Sciences Award for her poster titled “nPLEX Assay for High Throughput Protein Analysis‘

Justin Margolin receives 2019 Huntington 100 award
On April 8, CaNCURE trainee Justin Margolin (Health Sciences ’19) was inducted into the Huntington 100 by one of last year’s CaNCURE winners, Patrick Sheedy

Two CaNCURE winners at RISE 2018
14 CaNCURE students presented their co-op research at the 2018 Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Expo. This annual event features the work of over 400 students and

Two CaNCURE trainees American Society of Photobiology Awards
Kaitlin Moore (Health Sciences, ’19) was awarded the Fredrick Urbach Memorial Student Travel Award by the American Society of Photobiology to present her research titled,

CaNCURE featured at RISE2017
Three CaNCURE students presented their CaNCURE co-op at Northeastern’s Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Expo. The annual RISE event features the work of over 400 students