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Fun day with the lab at Keystone Ski Resort!  While the layer of snow was thin, the enthusiasm definitely wasn’t.

🎉 Our lab is excited to welcome a new master’s student — Lev!  🎉 Lev is joining us as a Master’s student in the Pharmaceutical Sciences program, bringing two years of research experience in immunology and nanoparticle drug‑delivery . Please join me in welcoming Lev!

I’m honored to share that I’ve been selected as this year’s Rising Star Research Award in the Basic Science category. This award recognizes junior faculty who are emerging as leaders in research through significant discoveries and original scholarship, and it is designed for investigators within the first three years of their faculty appointment. https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/annual-campus-awards-ceremony-recognizes-research-excellence

This year has been truly phenomenal, and after finally landing the “perfect” faculty position, I’m proud of how naturally everything came together. 🔬 I built a fully functional research lab in just a couple of months ✨ I assembled a dream team 💰 I secured several competitive grants 🤝 I established new clinical and research collaborations 🧬 I developed new IRB protocols, accelerating exciting translational work 📣 I was invited to present my work more times than I can coun

Our lab has been awarded a Cancer League of Colorado grant  for the project: “Immune Amplification to Target Lung Cancer” in collaboration with Dr. Joshua Thurman, MD. This project aims to explore innovative strategies to enhance immune responses against lung cancer , advancing our mission to improve patient outcomes. We are grateful to the Cancer League of Colorado for supporting this important work and look forward to sharing updates as the research progresses.

We are thrilled to welcome Natasha Shrivastava to the Bouchard lab for this semester! After graduating from Connecticut College with a bachelor's in Biological Science, Natasha moved to Colorado where she worked in Dr. Heide Ford’s laboratory as a Professional Research Assistant. Alongside assistant graduate students with their projects, she focused on investigating the metastatic landscape of Ewings Sarcoma-specifically looking at the dynamics of homeotic transcription facto

We are thrilled to welcome Spencer Mahaffey to the Bouchard lab! Spencer Mahaffey serves as the Bioinformatics Software Engineer for the lab, leveraging a dual background in Molecular Biology and Computer Science. He holds an M.E. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder and dual B.S. degrees from the University of Wyoming. Spencer possesses deep domain knowledge, having performed both bench work and software development for M. tuberculosis research and div

This month has been full of exciting news for the Bouchard Lab! We’re thrilled to be launching two new projects: 🔬 TIL Therapy in...

RadRes has long been one of my favorite meetings. This society truly fosters a sense of community and provides an outstanding platform...

🍂 Fall is here! That means new students, cooler weather, and the first signs of changing colors—definitely the best time of year for...

Enjoying one last lab lunch together before Isaac and Ryan head back—what a fun summer full of phenomenal research, great results, and...

Gina & Gabriela delivered a joint talk on our spatial biology work, Ryan presented exciting O-glycoproteomics results, and Isaac made a...

X-Ray irradiator training today—ready to blast some cells and science it up! Bonus: amazing outfit. Lab chic at its finest. 😅🧑‍🔬

The Anschutz Medical Campus has great places to grab a bite, but Tsreet is hands-down a favorite!

It’s been a stressful couple of weeks for Gabi, but she absolutely crushed it! She delivered an amazing final rotation presentation and...

We’re proud to share that Gina and Gabriela have been awarded travel grants to present their research at the upcoming Radiation Research...

Ryan Tran is a rising junior at Pomona College majoring in Molecular Biology and minoring in Chinese. He is from Aurora, Colorado, and he...

Isaac joins us from the CREU program, a highly competitive summer program for undergraduate researchers. The goal of the program is to...