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Yinwen Cheng, Awarded for Outstanding Oral Presentation at the 2019 Central States Regional Chapter of the Society of Toxicology

October 2, 2019

Award Group
Yinwen Cheng is pictured in the top row, 2nd from the left.

Yinwen Cheng, a PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. Andrean Simons-Burnett, was awarded for “Outstanding Oral Presentation” at the 2019 Central States Regional Chapter of the Society of Toxicology (CS-SOT).  Yinwen’s presentation was titled “Estrogen: a possible explanation for gender differences in responses to cancer immunotherapy”.  Yinwen’s PhD research project focuses on the use of endosomal toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists in head and neck cancer therapy.