Mañán Mejías receives UW Carbone Cancer Center Minter Graduate Student Cancer Research Award

Congratulations to Paula Mañán Mejías, graduate student in the lab of María Virumbrales-Muñoz, PhD! Mañán Mejías was selected as the 2026 recipient of the UW Carbone Cancer Center’s Thomas and Bonnie Minter Graduate Student Cancer Research Award. 

Mañán Mejías will use the award to attend the 2027 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, where she will share her work with the cancer research community. Mañán Mejías’s research interests include creating biomimetic models of the ovarian cancer microenvironment to explore factors that promote metastasis and progression, with the goal of identifying therapeutic targets. She is specifically interested in the role of adipocytes in the progression and metastasis of high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC). 

Incredible work, Paula!