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Clayton gave a proffered talk at the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) Annual Meeting 2025, sharing his results about detection of cancer in patients who have presented with incidental pancreatic lesions, using a novel blood …

The Bothwell prize is awarded annually by McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and UW Carbone Cancer Center for a paper published by a team based at the University of Wisconsin and judged for its potential …

We posted one more preprint before ringing out 2024. This work was also the data behind our recent WARF Innovation Award and shows that plasma DNA fragmentation patterns are preserved in dried blood spots, a …

New preprint from our lab describes promising results of a collaborative project led by Dr. Clayton Marcinak, developing a multianalyte blood test for detection of pancreatic cancer in patients with high-risk incidental lesions. Clayton was …

We are grateful to receive this wonderful recognition of our work led by Michelle Stephens and our team, and excited to continue its development to make blood-based early detection of cancer more accessible and cost-effective. …

Can we analyze DNA in peritoneal fluid samples to detect and monitor peritoneal metastasis? This question is the focus of work led by Dr. Muhammad Talha Nawaz, a clinical research fellow in our lab. In …

Congratulations to Dr. Haikun Zhang, a postdoctoral scientist in our lab, who received a grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program. In collaboration with Dr. Mehreen Kisat’s lab at UW-Madison, Haikun will develop computational methods for …

Most lab members attended the Circulating Nucleic Acids in Plasma and Serum (CNAPS) Meeting in Graz. Murtaza presented a talk, and the lab presented two posters. It was a fantastic meeting with stellar science and …

Kirsten Dennison presented a poster about a new method for tumor-guided SV analysis for MRD detection at AACR Annual Meeting 2024 in San Diego. At the same meeting, Clayton Marcinak presented a poster about his …