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Paper Published on Tu Historia Cuenta Findings

Our first paper on the findings of the Tu Historia Cuenta program have been published in the Frontiers in Oncology Journal thanks to the hard work from Lizeth Tamayo. The paper reports on the demographics of the participants, health behaviors like mammography screening rates, and the prevalence of genetic testing among Latinas.

Genome Center Halloween Symposium - Best Poster

Congratulations to our very own, Dr. Xiaosong Huang! He won the award for the best poster at the UC Davis Genome Center Halloween Symposium for his work on PRS models and analysis of the PEGEN-BC data.

Genome Center Halloween Symposium 2022 - Best Presentation

Congratulations are in order for our very own, Dr. Valentina Zavala Cordero! She received the award for the best presentation/talk during the UC Davis Genome Center Halloween Symposium. Her talk focused on her research for the PEGEN-BC study where she looks at the impact of indigenous ancestry on breast cancer risk.

Tu Historia Cuenta on ABC 10

Dr. Laura Fejerman and the Tu Historia Cuenta project were featured on ABC 10, specifically, how Latinas are less likely to seek genetic counseling and how our promotores are empowering Latinas all over California on breast cancer awareness. You can read the article and watch the video here.

One Health and Minority Health Research

Brittany Morgan, a PhD student who is a part of the Fejerman Lab, just published an amazing paper on the addition of the One Health model to research frameworks around minority health and health disparities research. You can find the paper in Epidemiology and Global Health of eLife or by clicking here.

Tu Historia Cuenta Community Partner Recognized

The Fejerman Lab has been partnering with two community based organizations on a project called Tu Historia Cuenta, or your story counts. One of our partners, Promoters for Better Health in Los Angeles, was recently recognized by the City of Pomona, County of Los Angeles, California Assemblymember Rodriguez, and US Congressmember Correa. Promoters for Better Health was recognized for their hard work in reaching out and educating over 700 women on hereditary breast cancer and the importance of family history.

ABRCMS 2021 Award Winner in the Fejerman Lab

Ravinder Singh was awarded the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) for Social and Behavioral Sciences and Public Health

AACR-Genentech Cancer Disparities Research Fellowships

Our very own Dr. Valentina Zavala-Cordero has been awarded the AACR-Genentech Cancer Disparities Research Fellowship for her work in "Identification of non-European functional variants in breast cancer". Here is a short quote, "It is an honor to receive the 2021 AACR-Genentech Cancer Disparities Research Fellowship. This opportunity will allow me to advance knowledge about germline effects on tumor biology in an understudied population and will provide me with the resources to continue developing as a scientist and take my career to the next level.".