UConn Health · School of Medicine
Center for Molecular Oncology
Providing a fertile environment and forum for basic and clinical/translational investigators interested in molecular and genetic approaches to better understand and potentially prevent and treat human neoplasia.
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Welcome to the Center for Molecular Oncology at the UConn School of Medicine. The aim of the center is to provide a fertile environment and forum for basic and clinical/translational investigators interested in molecular and genetic approaches to better understand and potentially prevent and treat human neoplasia.
Basic & Clinical Research
Translational Science
Awards & Recognition
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In the News
Recent achievements, publications, and recognition from our physician-scientists.
Sara Halili, from the Arnold Lab, was featured in an October 2025 article on the JAX website: New JAX-led course gives early career researchers a front row seat to personalized cancer care.
Candidate Caroline Guild McNaboe was judged by the Award Selection Committee to be deserving of this meritorious Scholar award. Congratulations, Caroline, on being the 2025 AACR-Women in Cancer Research Scholar Award winner.
Sharon Yaqoob-Krzystofiak presented her joint-first author poster at the recent 2025 annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, San Francisco.
Drs. Costa-Guda, Corrado, Bellizzi, Saria, Saucier, Guemes-Aragon, Kakar, Rose, Pascal, Alander, Mallya, and Arnold’s paper “Influence of Vitamin D Deficiency on Cyclin D1-Induced Parathyroid Tumorigenesis” was selected as the Endocrinology Featured Article of the week.
Congratulations to Maia Jakubowski for winning the 2024 ENDO REGMS Award.
Congratulations, Dr. Christopher Heinen, on being selected as the recipient of the Osborn Biomedical Science Graduate Teaching Award for 2024! The intention of this award is to recognize a UConn Health Graduate School faculty member for their commitment to providing the best education in the classroom and training in the laboratory. Students in the Biomedical Science graduate program both nominate and vote on the recipient of the Osborn Award.
Dr. Andrew Arnold will receive the 2024 William F. Neumann Award, the highest honor of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, at this year’s ASBMR Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada. Congratulations!
Congratulations! Prachi Thakore, from the Delany Lab, was presented with the 2023 Raisz Award at the Skeletal Biology and Regeneration Symposium on September 28th.
Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Costa on the selection of her abstract entitled “Treatment of Parathyroid Neoplasia by Pharmacologic Inhibition of cdk4/6” as a “Best Abstract” at the recent WorldMEN: 18th International Workshop on Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia and other Rare Endocrine Tumors in Marseille, France.
Featured Articles
New JAX-led course gives early career researchers a front row seat to personalized cancer care
Walnut study Instagram and YouTube famous
Walnut Consumption Curbs Inflammation and Colon Cancer Risk
Systemic Inflammation and the Inflammatory Context of the Colonic Microenvironment Are Improved by Urolithin A
UConn’s Dr. Arnold Awarded Highest Honor of the ASBMR
Podcast: Colon Cancer, Nuts, and Early Onset
AICR Spotlight Research: Meet Daniel W. Rosenberg, PhD