Department of Ob-Gyn brings research and leadership to 2025 UW Carbone Cancer Research Retreat

The UW Carbone Cancer Center hosted their annual Research Retreat on April 10, 2025. Members of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology’s Division of Gynecologic Oncology and Division of Reproductive Sciences shared research and provided leadership for the event. Some of their exciting accomplishments:

Janelle Sobecki, MD, assistant professor in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology, served on the Research Retreat steering committee.

Abstracts presented at the retreat:

Basic Science: Development of a new 3D Microfluidic Model of STIC Lesions. Yalmarie Numan-Vazquez, Finnbar Reed-McBain, María Virumbrales-Muñoz

Population Science and Other: Linking Heterogenous Radiation Therapy to Dose Dependent Gene Expression Changes Through Deep Neural Network based Dosimetry from Spatial Transcriptomics. Zachary M. Danaceau, Justin Jagodinsky, Jessica M. Vera, Jessica Miller, Zachary Morris, Irene M. Ong

Population Science and Other: Overall survival following primary debulking surgery versus neoadjuvant chemotherapy in advanced ovarian cancer patients by frailty status. Minh Tung Phung, Britton Trabert, Ronald Gangnon, Amy Trentham-Dietz, Lisa M. Barroilhet

Translational Science: Treatment of ovarian cancer via combination radio- or chemotherapy with PARP-targeted radiopharmaceutical therapy. Taylor Johnson, Manish Patankar, Paul Ellison

Translational Science: Harnessing Electronic Health Records Data to Expedite the Diagnosis of Early-Stage Ovarian Cancer. Aurod Ounsinegad, Aubrey Barnard, Rene Welch, Jesus Gonzalez-Bosquet, Peter Argenta, Manish Patankar, Irene M. Ong

Translational Science: Biochemically-Informed Multimodal Learning for Immune Recognition Prediction with position-specific peptide analysis. Tapanmitra Ravi, Irene M. Ong

Incredible work, all!