Achievements

2024

Congratulations Pratha Rawal, for receiving BRANN Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Bristol Myers Squibb Tomorrow’s Innovators STEM Scholarship and Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

2023


Pathania lab had the opportunity to present at the American Association for Cancer Research Special Conference on Breast Cancer!

Graduate students Josh Rivera and Haohui Duan had the opportunity to present their research at the poster symposium at 10th AACR Special Conference.


Congratulations Dr. Galhenage

Please join us in congratulating our graduate student Dr. Pamoda Galhenage on defending her thesis.

Undergraduate seniors presenting their posters at Honor College Symposium

Congratulations to Silvi Salhotra, Gabrielle McCloskey and Brenda Loc on graduating with Honors! And congratulations Brenda on receiving the Excellence in Research award for Biochemistry. We wish you all the best as you begin the next phase of your careers

The Pathania lab had the opportunity to attend the 2023 DF/HCC Breast & Gynecologic Cancer Symposium!

Graduate students Pamoda Galhenage, Haohui Duan, and Kathy Situ had the opportunity to present their research at the poster symposium, and graduate student Joshua Rivera delivered a talk on his research. Haohui Duan won the best poster award at the symposium.

Graduate student Joshua Rivera delivers an excellent talk on his research!

2022


Undergraduate students Pratha Rawal (left) and Gabby McCloskey (right) converse with peers at the UMB-DF/HCC partnership’s annual Cancer Symposium with keynote speaker Dr. Sweet-Cordero speaking on the genomic analysis of osteosarcoma.

Undergraduate student Silvi Salhotra presents her research findings gathered during her summer experience at the annual Beacon Student Success Fellowship Poster Symposium!


Undergraduate student Gabby McCloskey presents her research on cytosine deaminase activity in BRCA2-deficient cells at the annual U54 Poster Symposium for the university’s partnership with Dana-Farber and Harvard Cancer Center.


Graduate student Haohui Duan becomes a recipient of the prestigious Dean’s Doctoral Research Fellowship Award for Fall 2022.



Undergraduate student Silvi Salhotra receives the College of Science and Mathematics Undergraduate Research Fellowship (Fall 2022 and Spring 2023).

Undergraduate student Gabby McCloskey becomes a recipient of the U54 Cancer Research Partnership between UMB and Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (Summer 2022).

Undergraduate student Silvi Salhotra becomes a recipient of Summer 2021 Beacon Student Success Fellowship (BSSF) Grant, which allows her to continue their research in the lab (Summer 2022). 

Pamoda Galhenage (Graduate) receives the CSM Graduate Fellowship Award for the Spring semester (Spring 2022).

Erica Perry, Salomé Moulière, and Brenda Loc (undergraduates) receive the College of Science and Mathematics Undergraduate Research Fellowship  (Spring 2022).

Gabby McCloskey and Silvi Salhotra (undergraduates) receive the College of Science and Mathematics Undergraduate Research Fund (Spring 2022).

Undergraduate student Silvi Salhotra becomes a recipient of the U54 Cancer Research Partnership between UMB and Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (Spring 2022).

Gabby McCloskey, Silvi Salhotra, Nisha Patel and Stevenson Tran (undergraduates) were accepted into the TUSM/UMass Boston Enrichment Program – Pathway to Clinical Careers at Tufts University School of Medicine during Winter Break (January 2022).

2021

Congratulations to Joshua Rivera (Graduate) for becoming an official PhD candidate (Fall 2021)!

Undergraduate student Nisha Patel becomes a recipient of the U54 Cancer Research Partnership between UMB and Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (Summer 2021).

Congratulations to Haohui Duan and Pamoda Galhenage (Graduates) for their successful and impressive presentations of their Research Proposals and for becoming official PhD candidates (Spring 2021)!

Pamoda Galhenage (Graduate) receives the CSM Fellowship Award for the Fall semester.

Erica Perry and Stevenson Tran (undergraduates) receive the Summer 2021 Beacon Student Success Fellowship (BSSF) Grant, which allows them to continue their research in the lab. (Summer 2021)

2020

Pamoda Galhenage (Graduate) is awarded the Goranson Award for her research on Ovarian Cancer.

Urwah Kanwal (Undergraduate) receives the McCone and Alumni Research Fund.

Haohui Duan (Graduate) publishes her first-authored paper with the support of Sarah Mansour, and Margaret Gillis (Undergraduates).  Her paper is published in the Journal of Cell Biology

Joshua Rivera (Graduate) publishes a report on Integrated Transcriptome and Network Analysis Revealing Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Calvarial Suturogenesis.  (July 2020)

Erica Perry, Urwah Kanwal, and Stevenson Tran (undergraduates) receive the Summer 2020 Beacon Student Success Fellowship (BSSF) Grant, which allows them to continue their research in the lab. (Summer 2020)

Joshua Rivera (Graduate) has abstracts accepted to the American Academy of Cancer Research Evolving Landscape of Cancer Modeling 2020, Dana Farber/ Harvard Cancer Center Breast and Gynecological Research Symposium 2020, and Gordon Research Conference 2020 Single-Cell Cancer Biology (2020)

Haaris Zeb is awarded the UMass Boston Beacon Individual Service Award for his leadership and dedication to university activities and organizations. (May 2020)

Joshua Rivera (Graduate) is awarded the Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority (CSURM) Fellowship (February 2020)

Erica Perry (undergraduate) receives the College of Science and Mathematics Undergraduate Research Fellowship, supported by Sanofi Genzyme and Oracle, to continue her research on the origin of high-grade serous ovarian cancer (February 2020)

2019

Margaret Gillis (undergraduate) presents her research work about the role of CHEK2 in tumor suppression at the U54 poster presentation.

Haohui Duan (Graduate) presents her research work at 2019 KEYSTONE Symposia – DNA replication and genome instability: from mechanism to disease.

Urwah Kanwal (undergraduate) receives the 2019 Ryan Award for having the highest GPA after her freshman and sophomore years at UMB (January 2019)

Stevenson Tran (undergraduate) receives the 2019 Beacon Student Success Fellowship (BSSF) Grant for his research on the effects of uracil excision on replication stress in BRCA2-deficient cells and embryonic lethality. (Summer 2019)

Erica Perry and Haaris Zeb (undergraduates) are awarded the UMass Boston Undergraduate Research Funds Fellowship for their research on CHEK2 and Stalled fork repair. (December 2019)

2018

Haohui Duan (Graduate) presented her research work at BASSER 6th Annual Scientific Symposium- BRCA1, BRCA2, and beyond: an update on hereditary cancer.

Margaret Gillis (undergraduate) receives the Undergraduate Student Research Funds Fellowship for her research project on CHEK2 mutant breast cancer (December 2018)

Manal Khan (undergraduate) receives the Sanofi Genzyme Scholarship for her research on BRCA2 mutation-driven breast cancer (December 2018)

Manal Khan (undergraduate) receives the Undergraduate Student Research Funds Fellowship (December 2018)

Tiego Da’Silva (Post-Baccalaureate) receives a Diversity Supplement Award to continue as a U54/Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center Post-baccalaureate Fellow. The award allows him to continue his research on BRCA1 mutant ovarian cancer (August 2018)

2017

Tiego Da’Silva (Post-Baccalaureate) receives the U54/Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center Post-baccalaureate Award for his research on BRCA1 mutant ovarian cancer (August 2017)

Arpine Israelyan (undergraduate) receives the Sanofi Genzyme Scholarship (December 2017)

Department of Defense Breast Cancer Breakthrough Award (March 2017)

UMass Boston Scientist Seeks New Clues to Hereditary Breast Cancer (February 2017)