Obtained necessary approvals from both IRB and UT Southwestern Tissue Resource to begin the analysis of banked human renal cell carcinoma specimens.
Received Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center support.
Samuel performs valuable in silico analysis from publicly available databases.
Research:
Agreement on MTA with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Silvia begins working at the bench on day 13.
Funding:
Received Endowed Scholar Award.
NIH KO8 Award transfer initiated.
Letter of intent submitted for Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Award.
UT Southwestern Mission:
PI appointed faculty member of Cancer Biology graduate programs.
Personnel:
All personnel complete necessary training (safety, radioactivity, mouse handling…).
Fellowships:
Samuel is awarded a postdoctoral fellowship.
Silvia submits proposal.
Recruitment:
Yeny and Nick join the lab.
Several candidates for postdoctoral positions interviewed.
Lab Operation:
Equipment and supplies arrive from Boston.
Lab space remodeling is completed.
Internet ports and phone lines activated.
Completed outfitting of the lab with fridges, freezers, microfuges, PCR machine, NanoDrop spectrophotometer, FPLC machine, hypoxia chamber, computers and printers.
Radioactive sublicense obtained.
Infrastructure:
Silvia compiles information for electronic databases.
Samuel establishes lab intranet.
Plasmid database and various other electronic platforms created by Samuel.
Yeny generates electronic inventories for cell lines, primers, and antibodies.
Nick adapts mouse database with capabilities for transferring information onto mouse cage cards.
Repositories created for centralized access to plasmids, glycerol stocks, primers, cell lines, and antibodies.
Yeny performs a cost assessment of frequently ordered reagents.
Mice:
Mouse strains from Dana-Farber arrive and successfully go through quarantine.
Animal protocol is approved.
Nick organizes mouse colony and implements PCR strategies for genotyping.
