June 28-July 1 2026 - Congrats to Amal and Tom for presenting fantastic, very popular posters at the 2026 Metastasis Research Society Meeting. We had lots of fun connecting with old friends and making new friends in the field!
May 17th 2026 - Tom, Lexi and I had lots of fun at the Komen 'More Than Pink' walk
May 8th 2026 - Congrats to Tom for being awarded a Student Community Member Award from the Oncology Graduate Program. And to Tom and Lexi for giving great lightening talks at the 2026 OGP Retreat!
May 1st 2026 - Happy two years to the Williams Lab! We celebrated with an escape room in our new lab jackets!
March-May 2026 - Congrats to Tom, Lexi, and Amal for submitting LOIs and full grant applications!
February 25th to 27th 2026 - Congrats to Aneglica and Lexi for fantastic talks at the 2026 TRCCC Annual Meeting. Lexi won an AAI Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award!!!
February 9th 2026 - Excited to welcome Amal Elhaw to the lab as a postdoctoral associate!
February 5th 2026 - Lexi passed her qualifying exam today and is now a PhD candidate!
January 2026 - Honored to receive a MetaVivor Award to support our work on breast cancer liver metastasis and be listed with all of these fantastic scientists who are shaping the field of breast cancer metastasis research - https://metavivor.org/grants/?_paged=19
December 15th 2025 - Tom passed his qualifying exam today and is now a PhD candidate!
Check out this blurb on the lab from the AACR TME working group:
November 18th 2025 - Congrats to Tom for a great talk at the Metastasis Research Society Early Career Leadership Council Meeting!
October 31 2025 - Happy Halloween!
August 2025 - More pictures of the lab from the 2025 Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium!
August 24th 2025 - Tom gave an outstanding presentation at the 2025 Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium!
August 1st 2025 - Congrats to Sunny for a fantastic final summer presentation titled "Development of a Robust Breast Cancer Liver Metastasis Mouse Model."
July 11th 2025 - Picklesburgh!!!
June 22nd 2025 - We had lots of fun at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center day at PNC Park watching the Pirates win!
June 2025 - We are very excited to welcome two summer students into the lab, Neha Sriram and Sunny Pham!
June 4th 2025 - Michelle presented work from the lab at the 2025 Liver Metastasis Research Network Annual Meeting
May 2025 - We had lots of fun at the Susan G Komen MORE THAN PINK walk this weekend!
May 2025 - The Williams lab is a year old! We've come a long way but are excited to continue sharing updates as we grow!
April 2025 - The lab went to trivia and we were suprised to get 2nd place (forgot a photo)!
March 2025 - Excited to welcome Tom Hintelmann, a rotating graduate student in the Oncology Graduate Program, to the lab!!!
February 2025 - We celebrated the end of Lexi's rotation at Coop De Ville!
February 2025 - Angelica, Lauren, and Michelle enjoyed attending their first TRCCC meeting at Seven Springs
January 2025 - Excited to welcome Lexi Hill, a rotating graduate student in the Oncology Graduate Program, to the lab!!!
November 2024 - Dr. Williams presented at the 2024 SITC Primer on Tumor Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy
November 2024 - Ecstatic to welcome Angelica Phan, a new Research Technician to the lab!!!
September 2024 - Super excited to welcome Neil Shah, a Pitt undergrad, Lauren Grove, a rotating graduate student in the Oncology Graduate Program, and Lauren McCue, an Animal Research Associate, to the lab!!!
September 3rd 2024 - Dr. Williams was selected as a 2024 Hillman Early Career Fellow for Innovative Cancer Research
July 3rd 2024 - Our LOI for the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Research Foundation-AACR NextGen Grant for Transformative Cancer Research was selected for a full application
July 3rd 2024 - Williams Lab Biosafety and IACUC Protocols are approved, we are gearing up to start experiments soon
May 1st 2024 - Williams Lab opens on the 2nd floor of the Assembly Building at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center/University of Pittsburgh