2026

• Blake Schwettmann presents a poster on immune regulatory functions and therapeutic opportunities of MIF signaling in pancreatic cancer at the AACR Annual Meeting
• Blake Schwettmann selected to attend the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pancreatic Cancer course
• Blake Schwettmann’s CPRIT Cancer Intervention and Prevention Discoveries Training Grant is renewed. Congratulations Blake!
• Fei Conrad accepted into the Master of Public Health program at UT Southwestern. Congratulations Fei!
• The lab welcomes Beutler Institute undergraduate researcher Xie Miaoling

2025

• Dr. Maddipati presents on mechanisms of metastasis in pancreatic cancer at Advances in Gastroenterology in Tokyo, Japan
• The lab publishes article on metastatic heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer and opportunities for targeted intervention in the Journal of Clinical Investigation
• Blake Schwettmann awarded a CPRIT Cancer Intervention and Prevention Discoveries Training Grant. Congratulations Blake!
• Blake Schwettmann receives a poster award at the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center Retreat
• Blake Schwettmann selected to give a talk at the UT Southwestern Cancer Biology Retreat
• Melanie Johnson accepted to medical school. Congratulations Melanie!
• The lab welcomes Beutler Institute undergraduate researcher Junling Xiao
• The lab publishes collaborative work with the Bates lab on combined HDAC and eIF4A inhibition in pancreatic cancer in Drug Resistance Updates
• Dr. Maddipati serves on the Veterans Administration Oncology C Merit Review study section

2024

• The lab welcomes graduate student Blake Schwettmann
• The lab welcomes Melanie Johnson
• Dr. Maddipati receives VA Merit Award (R01 equivalent) to study MIF-CD74 signaling as an immune regulator and therapeutic target in pancreatic cancer
• Dr. Maddipati presents at the Tumor Metastasis Meeting at UT Southwestern

2023

• Dr. Maddipati receives the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award for optogenetic engineering of tumor topography in native tissue environments
• The lab welcomes research associate Fei Conrad
• Valli Annamalai selected to give a talk at the Cancer Biology Retreat
• Albert Kwan matches into the Physician-Scientist Training Program at the University of Cincinnati. Congratulations Albert!
• Asal Saeid accepted to medical school. Congratulations Asal!
• Dr. Maddipati presents on targeting tumor heterogeneity at UT Southwestern

2022

• The lab publishes article on MYC and metastatic heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer in Cancer Discovery
• Dr. Maddipati receives CPRIT High Impact/High Risk Award to develop a novel optogenetic recombinase system to study and target metastatic cancer
• Dr. Maddipati presents on mechanisms of tumor metastasis at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX
• Dr. Maddipati presents on mechanisms driving tumor metastasis in pancreatic cancer at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, OK
• Taku Higashihara completes his postdoctoral fellowship and returns to Japan, where he is now Chief Surgeon of Gastroenterological and General Surgery at Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center
• The lab welcomes Albert Kwan
• The lab publishes collaborative work with the Brekken lab on antigen-presenting cancer-associated fibroblasts in Cancer Cell
• The lab publishes collaborative work with the Aguilera lab on ablative radiation therapy in oligometastatic pancreatic cancer in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics

2021

• Dr. Maddipati presents on drivers of metastatic heterogeneity at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD
• Dr. Maddipati presents at Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Grand Rounds at UT Southwestern
• Dr. Maddipati presents at the DC Program Retreat at UT Southwestern
• The lab publishes collaborative work with the Rhim lab on APOBEC3A-driven chromosomal instability in pancreatic cancer metastasis in Nature Cancer

2020

• The lab welcomes postdoctoral fellows Angad Kumar and Saurav Bhattacharya
• The lab welcomes Valli Annamalai and Asal Saeid
• Dr. Maddipati presents on MYC control of metastatic burden in pancreatic cancer at the Cellular Networks and Cancer Program Spotlight on MYC at UT Southwestern
• Dr. Maddipati presents on strategies for pancreatic cancer prevention at the Pancreatic Patient Summit at UT Southwestern

2019

• Dr. Maddipati named CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research and joins the faculty at UT Southwestern
• Dr. Maddipati receives a UT Southwestern Disease Oriented Clinical Scholars (DOCS) Award to study mechanisms underlying metastatic heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer
• Dr. Maddipati presents on the origins of metastatic heterogeneity in the Hamon Center Seminar Series at UT Southwestern
• The lab welcomes senior research scientist Feng Wu and postdoctoral fellow Taku Higashihara