Tackett and Koss Labs Receive R21
Congratulations to Tackett and Koss labs on receiving a $421,000 NCI R21 grant to study cancer-evolved resistance mechanism to enhance adoptive T-cells.
Anna Completes SURF Program in the Koss Lab
Anna participated in the eight-week Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program, funded by the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She focused on identifying E3 Ligases linked to T cell exhaustion. At the Arkansas Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium, she earned an award for having one of the top 10 posters out of 120! We enjoyed having Anna in the lab this summer!
New Koss Cell Culture Lab is opened
May 2024
More space, more science!
Katie Wallis joins the Koss Lab
May 2024
Welcome to the Lab! We are lucky to have you and know you will make major contributions to our work.
Brian receives Outstanding Young Alumnus Award
May 2024
Congratulations to Brian for being named a 2024 Hendrix College Outstanding Young Alumnus!
Bria Defends her Master’s Thesis
April 22, 2024
Bria defended her thesis: "CD28 signaling upregulates phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase-2 (PCK2) to maintain T cell metabolic fitness.”
Best of luck in clinical trials at Arkansas Children’s Research Hospital!
Brian and Fen Receive $100,000 Award
April 3, 2024
Brian Koss, Ph.D. & Fen Xia, M.D., Ph.D. received $100,000 for the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute 2024 Team Science Award for "Exploring host GSK3β-53BP1 axis in immune control of tumor progression.”
Bria Wins the Eddie Reed Award
March 2024
Congratulations to Bria who won the Eddie Reed Award for Excellence in Cancer Research for her poster entitled, “Defining the role for PCK2 in T cell metabolic plasticity in glioblastoma”.
Sydnye Wins Two Awards
March 2024
Congratulations to Sydnye who won first place in the Professional Student category and runner up in the Cancer Research category for her poster entitled, “Proteome turnover dynamics profiling reveals destabilization of key metabolic machinery during T cell exhaustion”.