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Driven by his eye-opening past, Zhao Zhang refuses to play it safe as he changes what we know about the biology of cancer.

Chloe Barrington-Ham, PhD,, a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Alicia Darnell, PhD, has been awarded a three-year Hope Funds for Cancer Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, which provides an annual stipend and travel award to postdocs pursuing "highly innovative projects that challenge the traditional paradigms of understanding the causes, mechanisms, progression, disease markers or risk factors of the most difficult-to-treat cancers."

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Michael Caminear, a graduate student in the lab of Ann Marie Pendergast, PhD, has been awarded the Paul and Lauren Ghaffari Graduate Fellowship, which provides support to doctoral students pursuing oncology-related research.

Margaret Weber Barbier, a graduate student in the lab of Trudy Oliver, PhD, received the Jo Rae Wright Fellowship for Outstanding Women in Science. Created in memory of Jo Rae Wright, former dean of the Duke University Graduate School and professor of cell biology, medicine, and pediatrics, this fellowship recognizes one Ph.D. student in the biomedical sciences "whose research shows particular creativity and promise."

Trudy Oliver, PhD, DCI member and professor of in the Duke Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, received the Vicky Amidon Innovation in Lung Cancer Research Award from the Lung Cancer Initiative (LCI). The award recognizes and provides research funding for innovative lung cancer projects that will improve the lives of those diagnosed with lung cancer in North Carolina. Since 2008, LCI has funded more than $4.2 million in lung cancer research through programs like the research fellowship grant, health disparities in lung cancer grant in partnership with the V Foundation for Cancer Research, Career Development Award, and the Vicky Amidon Innovation in Lung Cancer Research Award.