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Students win research excellence awards Two students won the Edith Peng Award in Research Excellence and $850 during the Annual Hollings Cancer Center Research Retreat held Nov. 17 at the Holliday Alumni Center at The Citadel.   Of the 50 presentations competing, the two winners were Adnan Al-Ayoubi, a lab student of Scott Eblen, Ph.D., in the Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology; and Juan Carlos Varela, a lab student of Steven Tomlinson, Ph.D., in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.   Al-Ayoubi’s title presentation was, “A Novel MAPK Substrate that Regulates Multidrug Resistance in Ovarian Cancer.” Varela’s presentation was, “Down Regulation of Crry on Tumor Cells Enhances the Outcome of Antibody Therapy in a Metastatic Model of Bladder Cancer and Leads to the Induction of an Anti-tumor CTL Response.” The students will be able to use the cash prize to cover the travel costs to attend a professional meeting.   More than 200 faculty, post doctoral trainees and students attended the event in which 50 entries of research abstracts were presented by students, post doctoral trainees and junior faculty. Ten of the entrants were selected to give an oral presentation.   A keynote and visual presentation was provided by Merrill Egorin, M.D., a noted researcher from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. His talk titled, “Anticancer Clinical Pharmacology: Where We Have Been and Where We Need to Go.”   The retreat coordinators included Steven Rosenzweig, Ph.D., professor of cell and molecular pharmacology, and Dennis Watson, Ph.D., a professor, pathology and lab medicine.     Friday, Dec. 1, 2006 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island Publications at 849-1778, ext. 201.