Dr. Agolia Receives TTE Fellowship Award
July 1, 2024
Dr. James Agolia
Dr. James Agolia has been selected by Stanford’s Transplant and Tissue Engineering (TTE) Center of Excellence for their 2025 Fellowship Award. Agolia will receive more than $30k towards his salary while conducts research on uterine leiomyosarcoma with his mentor Dr. Dan Delitto.
“The goal of the project is to find new molecular targets for uterine leiomyosarcoma, a rare, devastating cancer of the uterus that frequently recurs locally and metastasizes,” said Agolia. “Due to a clinical trial at Stanford (NCT04727242), we have the opportunity to study tissue samples from patients who have locally recurred and are getting a second surgery. Using novel single-cell RNA sequencing techniques and organoid modeling, we hope to generate a comprehensive molecular map of uterine leiomyosarcoma and identify potential drug targets that we can then test in an organoid model.”
Agolia is a residents in Stanford’s General Surgery Residency Program, who is starting his two years of professional development time.
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