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Rising Stars Lecture Series

The program seeks to recognize nationally renowned early-career faculty by inviting them to campus to share their cutting-edge research and career development strategies with the SDSU community over the course of a 2-day visit. This program provides a speaker honorarium and covers all travel expenses. The San Diego State University Rising Stars Lecture Series is supported by the Vice President for Research and Innovation and various colleges.

Nominee eligibility requirements include:

  • must be early career, pre-tenure faculty member
  • must be employed at an R1 institution outside of California
  • must be the PI on a recently awarded NIH R- or K- grant
  • must be willing to travel to San Diego   

If you would like to nominate someone for the Rising Star Lecture Series, please submit your nomination by contacting Research Advancement.

Upcoming Rising Stars Lectures:

Tatiana Hurtado Rising Star Lecture
Date: Friday, August 22
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Bioscience Center Alan and Debbie Gold Auditorium 
Title: Redirecting Cytomegalovirus Immunity against Pancreas Cancer for Immunotherapy
 
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Tatiana Hurtado de Mendoza, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center. She is a cancer biologist with expertise in targeted cancer immunotherapy. Her research focuses on cancer drug delivery approaches that reduce toxicity to healthy tissue and increase drug penetration into the tumor, two factors that increase therapeutic efficacy. Her research applies immunotherapy approaches in pancreatic or breast cancer, aiming to introduce neoantigens in these solid tumors in order to render them suitable targets for immunotherapies. Her vision for translation of these approaches is to redirect the patient’s pre-existing immunity against a pathogen toward the tumor.

Past Recipients: 

  • Sabrina Horvath, Ph.D, CCC-SLP
  • Nichol Castro, Ph.D
  • Erin Isbilen, Ph.D
  • Amanda Kong, Ph.D, MPH
  • Kristina Johnson, Ph.D
  • Tashara Leak, Ph.D.
  • Roberto Cofresí-Bonilla, Ph.D.
  • Megan Gross, Ph.D.
  • Abhinav Archarya, Ph.D.
  • Miaja Reblin, Ph.D.
  • Naomi Caselli, Ph.D.
  • Simon Fischer-Baum, Ph.D.
  • Jun Wang, Ph.D.
  • Leah Fabiano-Smith, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
  • Jiyeon Lee, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
  • Molly A. Erickson, Ph.D.
  • Dan Mirman, Ph.D.
  • Christi W. Miller, Ph.D.
  • N. Bonnie Nozari, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Arielle Borovsky, Ph.D.