Graduate students Melissa Leonard, Devin Jones, and Jasmine Tuazon presented posters at the AAI IMMUNOLOGY2023 conference. Melissa and Devin both presented symposium talks and received travel awards for their work. After the conference, Jasmine, along with OSU MI&I and PIIO PIs Drs. Emily Hemann and Mark Rubinstein, advocated to Ohio representative and senator staffers for increased, sustainable NIH funding.

Kaitlin Read graduated with her Ph.D. from the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program and celebrated in her backyard with close friends and family. Since then, she and her family moved to Philadelphia to start as a postdoctoral researcherR at the University of Pennsylvania in the lab of Dr. Jim Riley studying CAR T cells.