Lab News

UW Cellular and Molecular Pathology PhD candidate Amanda Schussman has received the prestigious NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Nation Research Service award Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) to support her research in the Murtaza Lab. The award provides …

In May, Muhammed Talha Nawaz took the stage for an oral presentation of his work at the 67th annual Digestive Disease Week meeting in San Diego for the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. …

Murtaza Lab members Muhammed Talha Nawaz and Elise Dietmann  presented their work to advance cancer detection at the annual AACR conference in Chicago this past April.

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. …

Murtaza and Michelle were featured in a video produced by WARF based on their work with dried plasma spots that could allow at-home and in-office collection of samples for plasma DNA analysis. WARF chose this …