2018
September 2018
September 1st: The oHSV project funded by Dr. Leavenworth’s DoD grant starts.
September 24th: Dr. Leavenworth received the Young Supporters Board New Faculty Development Award in Cancer Research from the UAB CCC.
August 2018
August 7th: Jeffrey Grimes, a GBS Microbiology theme student, joined the lab for his dissertation work.
August 13th: Nikita Bhalerao, a GBS Cancer Biology theme student, joined the lab as a rotation graduate student.
August 15th: Xianzhen (Jane) Hu joined the lab as a Researcher V.
June 2018
June 16th: Dr. Leavenworth presented our studies on oncolytic virotherapy at the 7th Annual Southeastern Immunology Symposium
June 11th: Gelare Ghajar-Rahimi joined the lab as a MD/PhD rotation student
May 2018
May 15th: Dr. Leavenworth presented our studies on Treg cells at the Microbiology Department Seminar
May 4th: Dr. Leavenworth presented our studies on Oncolytic Virus at the Virology Discussion Group Meeting
March 2018
March 19th: Jordan Favors joined the lab as a work-study student
February 2018
February 23rd: Dr. Leavenworth’s research on oncolytic virotherapy was recommended for funding from DoD PRCRP!
January 2018
January 22nd: Lin Luo, joined the lab as a Postdoc fellow.
January 8th: Erin McLaughlin, a GBS Immunology theme student, joined the lab as a rotation graduate student.
January 8th: Sarah Faxel, a GBS Immunology theme student, joined the lab as a rotation graduate student.
2017
November 2017
On November 1st, Dr. Leavenworth received the NCATS institutional Mentored Career Development (KL2) Award.
http://www.uab.edu/ccts/news/ccts-welcomes-new-mentored-career-development-kl2-scholars
October 2017
On October 16th, Oluwagbemiga (Gbenga) Ojo, a GBS Immunology theme student, joined the lab as a rotation graduate student.
August 2017
On August 14th, Reham Soliman, a GBS PBMM theme student, joined the lab as a rotation graduate student.
On August 14th, Jason Needham, a GBS Microbiology theme student, joined the lab as a rotation graduate student.
July 2017
On July 1st, Michael Dixon, a GBS Immunology theme student, joined the lab for his graduation dissertation work.
June 2017
On Jun. 12th, Michael Patton joined the lab as a rotation MD/PhD student (joint with Markert lab).
On Jun. 12th, Michael Dixon joined the lab as a rotation Graduate student.
On Jun. 7th, Dr. Leavenworth received the SOM AMC21 pilot grant as a Co-PI.
On June 2nd, Dr. Leavenworth presented our research at the UAB 4th MS symposium.
On June 1st, Baolong Yan joined the lab as a Visiting Scholar.
May 2017
On May 1st, Dr. Leavenworth was funded by an NIH R01 grant as a Co-Investigator.
April 2017
On April 10th, Stephen Moore, a GBS Neuroscience theme student, joined the lab as a rotation graduate student.
February 2017
Congratulations to Jun Wang for being accepted into the UAB GBS program as a graduate student.
Welcome Jun Wang as a Volunteer student starting from February 15th 2017
On Feb. 10th, Dr. Leavenworth received the ACS-IRG Junior Faculty Development Award
2016
December 2016
On December 19, Jie Yin joined the Leavenworth lab as a Postdoc fellow.
November 2016
Dr. Jianmei Leavenworth discussed her research at Chinese Academy of Sciences at Hefei, Xiamen University, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Second Military Medical University and East China Normal University on November 14.
October 2016
On Oct. 24, 2016, Katherine Valin joined Leavenworth Lab as Researcher II.
Dr. Jianmei Leavenworth discussed her research at UAB’s 18th annual Comprehensive Cancer Center retreat Oct. 17, 2016.
On Oct. 1, 2016, Dr. Leavenworth joined UAB Neurosurgery as an Assistant Professor.
Previously, Dr. Leavenworth was at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard University. Her main research interest is to understand the mechanisms of self-tolerance, focusing on molecular and cellular elements that regulate effector and regulatory cell subsets of the immune response. Her long-term goal is to seek effective strategies for cancer immunotherapy using mouse models and specimens from patients with malignant tumors, including gliomas. Dr. Leavenworth completed medical school at Nantong University (NTU) School of Medicine, Nantong, Jiangsu, China. She then finished her Ph.D training in molecular biology, microbiology and biochemistry with a focus on immunology at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She was at Harvard Medical School since 2009 serving as a research fellow (Postdoc) and then as an instructor.
