Program Overview

The Training Program for Interdisciplinary Cancer Research (IDCR) provides UCI graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with comprehensive, highly interdisciplinary training that includes cancer biology, the most current research methods, and a focus on translational science such as the development of novel cancer therapeutics and diagnostics. This foundation together with professional development activities produces well-trained experts armed to successfully attack the cancer problem from vantage points in both academia and industry.

Trainee Highlight: Bridget Fortin

March 12, 2024

A Special Highlight on Bridget Fortin, a Biomedical Sciences PhD Candidate, Former Cancer Biology T32 ICDR Trainee and a member of the Masri Lab!!With the assistance of her Principal Investigator Dr. Selma Masri Bridget has been awarded the NIH National Cancer Institute F31 Predoctoral Fellowship!!The F31 Predoctoral Fellowship award assists talented doctoral candidates in conducting…

New T32 trainees appointed

September 11, 2023

Welcome to our newly appointed trainees in the Interdisciplinary Cancer Research program. Predoctoral students are: Isam Adam (Lawson lab); Brendan Chu (Edinger lab); Daniel Martinez (Benavente lab); Taryn Morningstar (Halbrook lab); Eli Soyfer (Fleischman lab). In addition, Shannon Pfeiffer (Masri lab) will join the training program in January 2024. Our new postdoctoral trainee is Dr.…

New Publication

August 28, 2023

Congratulations Temoc Ramirez, T32 Trainee, on his co-author publication, “FAM120A couples SREBP-dependent transcription and splicing of lipogenesis enzymes downstream of mTORC1” in Molecular Cell Journal. This was a collaborative publication between Gina Lee, Cholsoon Jang and Fangyuan Ding labs. Link to the paper: HERE

New Cancer Biology T32 Trainees!

August 28, 2023

Congratulations to new T32 Trains on the Cancer Biology Interdisciplinary Training Grant (PI: Fruman & Edinger). In July we welcomes Hannah Savage, a postdoctoral scholar in Devon Lawson’s Lab, Jason Li, a postdoctoral researcher in Wei Li’s lab and opened a call for 4 more trainees. We look forward to welcoming more trainees in October…