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Congratulations to GSK PhD student Brianna Naizir in the lab of Andrea Schietinger for defending her thesis entitled "Defining the Role of TOX in CD4 T Cell Fate Commitment and Effector Function."

Congratulations to GSK PhD student @juldelgado22 in the lab of Andrew Koff for defending her thesis entitled "A Multi-Omics Study of Molecular Determinants and Pathway Diversity Underlying Therapy-Induced Senescence in Cancer."

Congratulations to GSK PhD student Tiffany Merlinsky in the lab of @SantoshVardhana for defending her thesis entitled "Cysteine Availability Limits CD8+ T Cell Priming in Severe COVID-19"

Congratulations to GSK PhD student Won Jun Kim in the lab of @AbdelWahablab for defending his thesis entitled "Mis-Splicing-Derived Neoantigens and Cognate TCRs in Splicing Factor Mutant Leukemias."

We are now accepting applications for our Cancer Biology and Cancer Engineering #PhD programs for the 2026 academic year. Apply: sloankettering.edu/gerstner/admis…

Congratulations to GSK's students who were awarded fellowships over the last year! sloankettering.edu/news/gerstner-…

Congratulations to #GSK alumnus Zhi (Zach) Zheng from the lab of Scott Keeney, who has been awarded the 2025 Chairman's Prize! mskcc.org/news/2025-gsk-…

Congratulations to GSK PhD student Margaret Kennedy in the lab of @LoweLabMSKCC for defending her thesis entitled "Investigating Transcriptional Dysregulation in Disease through Genetic Engineering and Therapeutic Inhibition."

Congratulations to GSK PhD student Celeste Dang in the lab of @SunLab_Official for defending her thesis entitled "Investigating the Role of Transcription Factor 19 in Innate and Adaptive Immunity."

Congratulations to GSK PhD student Mariano Aufiero in the lab of Tobias Hohl for defending his thesis entitled "Determinants of Myeloid Cell-Mediated Antifungal Immunity."

#GSK Student @_MariahLee_ in the lab of Joseph Sun recently presented a poster on her research at the the 21st Meeting of the Society of Natural Immunity (SNI) in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Well done!

#GSK Student Hyunu Kim in the lab of Joseph Sun recently presented a poster on his research at the the 21st Meeting of the Society of Natural Immunity (SNI) in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Well done!

Congratulations to GSK PhD student Ella Nguyen in the lab of Christopher Lima for defending her thesis entitled "The RNA Exosome Pathway in Cell Cycle Progression."

#GSK Student Monica Acosta in the lab of Gretchen Diehl recently presented a poster on her research at the 2025 Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Phagocytes in Waterville Valley, NH. Well done!

Congratulations to GSK PhD student Ana Sanchez in the lab of Stewart Shuman for defending her thesis entitled "Distinct Contributions of Duf89 and Siw14 to Phosphate Homeostasis and Inositol Pyrophosphate Dynamics in Fission Yeast."

This week, 4 GSK PhD students are attending the inaugural @theNASEM workshop on Cancer Engineering!

Congratulations to GSK #Cancer #Engineering #PhD student @GfrancoYee for being named a 2025 Hertz Fellow!

Congratulations to GSK PhD student Mohammed Islam in the lab of @TommyVierbuchen for defending his thesis entitled "Stem Cell Models for Characterizing Cis-Regulatory Evolution During Cortical Development."

Congratulations to GSK PhD student Zhi (Zach) Zheng in the lab of Scott Keeney for defending his thesis entitled "Structural and Molecular Mechanisms of Spo11-Catalyzed Double-Strand Break Formation in Meiotic Recombination."

Congratulations to GSK PhD student @NanXu4 in the lab of @studerl for defending her thesis entitled "Epigenetic Regulation of Human Developmental Timing."