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Where do our graduates go? Let’s catch up with some alumni from Treehouse!
Treehouse’s Where Do Our Graduates Go is a series that features our former graduate students in the Vaske Lab! Let’s catch up with Dr. Sanders, Dr. Pfeil, and Dr. Anastopoulos.
Young Scientist Spotlight: Dylan Shiramizu
Dylan Shiramizu is an alum of the Treehouse UCSC Bioinformatics Immersion (TUBI) program, where students gain real-world work experience as researchers in a supportive environment, contributing to bioinformatic projects on pediatric cancer. Today, he is a research bioinformatician at Cedars-Sinai.
A childhood cancer survivor becomes a cancer researcher
Robert McCabe of Anchorage, Alaska, is a 15-year-old avid bowler, a fan of baseball and basketball, and a rising high school sophomore who hopes to be an engineer one day. He is also a pediatric cancer survivor, and most recently, a pediatric cancer researcher.
St. Baldrick’s Foundation grant will expand pediatric cancer research at UCSC
A new $100,000 grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation will provide UC Santa Cruz’s Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative funding to expand efforts to study rare pediatric cancers.
40 years cancer free: Why Mike Dolder is shaving his head
Mike Dolder is the Director of Engineering for UC Santa Cruz’s Physical Planning, Development & Operations department (PPDO), which manages and oversees all physical planning, design and construction activities on campus. When Mike was only two years old, he was...