Master’s student
Supervisor: Dr. Miguel Burnier
Cancer Research Program
Dr. Jade Lasiste, a graduate student in pathology, was awarded the Member-in-Training (MIT) Outstanding Poster in the Lens subspecialty category at the annual conference of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), held in Baltimore from May 7 to 11. The poster is titled “Metformin inhibits epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in lens epithelial cells.”