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Latest updates and developments from the Christina Cho Lab

May 2026

We’re excited to welcome two outstanding summer students to the lab this year!  Please join us in welcoming Erika Barnes and Alexis Katz!

Erika has been accepted into the Biomedical Science Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSSURP) and will be working on a project investigating the role of NK cell dysfunction in melanoma progression. Alexis has been accepted into the Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research Program (SUMR) and will be investigating the role of T cell exclusion in melanoma. 

Congratulations to both Erika and Alexis for being accepted into these competitive and prestigious programs! 

We are thrilled to have them on board this summer and look forward to the exciting research they will contribute to the lab.

March 2026

Join us in congratulating Natalie Nelson on being awarded a Summer Research Fellowship (SRF) from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Her project will focus on identifying soluble inhibitors of T cell trafficking in non-small cell lung cancer. We are excited to see what she discovers!

Big congratulations to our postbaccalaureate intern, Anna Hepfer, on being accepted into the ICARE Postbaccalaureate Fellowship Program with the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa. We’re proud of her and excited to see what she accomplishes next!

September 2025

Lab Opens

  • Dr. Christina Cho joins the division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation (HOBMT) in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa.

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