Kate Chiappinelli @chiappinellilab.bsky.social

A huge congratulations to the #GWIBSFamily PhD students who earned awards at our 2025 SMHS Research Showcase last week, and a big thank-you to our faculty judges who made the tough decisions! @KevinANestler @ShathaSalameh_ @C_M3lo_97 tinyurl.com/3zt9y9ya

"It is critically important that we raise our voices in support of innovative cancer science and medicine." @AACRPres Patricia M. LoRusso, DO, PhD (hc), FAACR, calls on the #AACR25 delegates to stand together and call on Congress to make cancer research a national priority.

Fantastic science at #AACR25 today! So inspiring to see @CancerGrand Challenges like extrachromosomal DNAs #ecDNAs 🧬⭕ (team eDyNAmiC!) and transposable elements 🦘🧬 (key for the Dark Proteome!) highlighted in the 🎓educational sessions. Really cool science being discussed 🔬!

Looking forward to #AACR25! If you want to learn more about transposable elements in cancer, our educational session is at 10 am on Saturday 4/26! @AACR @bengrbm

OCRA is proud to announce the first 3 recipients of the $6 million we’ve awarded to support groundbreaking ovarian & related gyn cancer research in 2025 bit.ly/4ix1ZYE. And we’re not stopping there—stay tuned as we continue to expand our investment in research this year.

Thrilled to share our @um_svilab work published today in @jclinicalinvest focused on harnessing viral mimicry to activate immunotherapy for #GBM. Thanks to all of my @SylvesterCancer @UMneurosurgery colleagues for their invaluable contributions! jci.org/articles/view/…

Grateful for the funding to explore high risk projects for novel cancer immunotherapies!! You can hear a bit about the work we and the other amazing Scholars do in this video.

Gilead Research Scholars Program funds impactful research. So important to have this funding for young investigators, particularly at this time where funding is so challenging. gilead.inc/4kCE1wK

Ting Wang, Tommy Kaplan, Daniel De Carvalho, and Katherine B. Chiappinelli discussed "Normal and Abnormal Methylation Patterns and Detection" at the AACR Conference on DNA Methylation, Clonal Hematopoiesis, and Cancer. #AACRmethylation25 @twang5 @decarvalho_lab @ChiappinelliLab

Thank you to @decarvalho_lab and @SajidMarhon for their leadership on this study, and all team members who made this study possible! This study represents an exciting new direction towards understanding how dsRNAs promote tumorigenesis. We're excited to expand further!

✨NEW CONFERENCE✨We are so pleased to announce our brand new 'Endogenous Retrotransposable Elements & Human Diseases' Conference will be taking place 03-06 Nov 2025, in Mexico🇲🇽 Full speaker line-up coming soon! 👀 #EREHD25 More information: bit.ly/4ahy8jM

📣 Calling all rising undergraduate juniors & seniors! Applications are open for the GW SPARC program! Don't miss the chance to be mentored in @GWCancer Center research labs for 10 weeks with housing and a stipend provided. Apply before February 2, 2025: bit.ly/3W8N8uq

Check out our new story! Mechanisms of innate and adaptive immune activation in cancer cells deficient in SMARCA4. Thank you to the multiple collaborators that made it possible. @neoviral @bengrbm @gonen_mithat @ChiappinelliLab science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Amazing representation by @cdmrp @OvCaAcademy ECIs, alumni, mentors, and deans at 15th #HHMT meeting in Surrey, UK! @BuckanovichLab @ChiappinelliLab @DmitriyZamarin @DenardaD @sophiahlge

Was so inspired last night at the event hosted by @PowerOvarian. Old and new friends together for a great cause. @immunegirl thanks for including me. @ChiappinelliLab and Sarah Gitto, amazing fun! #advocacy #beatovariancancer 🩵🩵

Please support our amazing medical student @JCastroArgueta as he runs 50 MILES (!) to fundraise for gynecologic cancers!

Congratulations to Dr. Erin Grundy who did an amazing job on her dissertation defense today! Thanks to co-mentor Cath Bollard and all thesis committee members @GW_IBS @AlbertoBosqueP @RebeccaLynchLab

Strong showing from the Chiappinelli Lab at the MITM Retreat 2024! PhD students Kevin Nestler and Trace Walker won 1st and 2nd place poster prizes!

Granted tenure and promotion to Associate Professor @GWSMHS, effective July 1. Many thanks to my mentors, collaborators, and colleagues, but most of all to the extraordinary Chiappinelli Lab members who worked so hard, together, through challenging times. Onward!

Vote for Dan! He is an awesome scientist and person and has been such an important mentor to me over the past five years.