News

1/13/26: Kailun Liu, 2nd year Oncology Graduate Program student, passed her Comprehensive Exam to become a PhD Candidate.

November 2025: The Mowery lab welcomes Kai Fluet to the lab as a graduate student.

October 2025 - The Mowery, Kirsch, and Patel labs published a paper on the role of the KEAP1/NRF2 pathway on radiotherapy resistance and immune suppression in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma in Clinical Cancer Research

July 2025 - The Mowery lab welcomes Kailun Liu to the lab as a graduate student.

5/8/25: The Mowery lab welcomes Kailun Liu to the lab as a rotating graduate student!

April 2025 - Drs. Mowery, Kalinski, and Vujanovic receive head and Neck Spore Developmental Research Award.

9/15/24: Dr. Mowery, Dr. Rickard, and Dr. Sobit gave oral/poster presentations at the Radiation Research Society Annual Meeting.

9/3/24: The Mowery lab welcomes Joseph Veliz to the lab!

July 2024 – Dr. Mowery receives Head and Neck SPORE Career Enhancement Program Award.

July 2024 - The Scheff and Mowery labs received an R21 grant from NIH (NIDCR) to study radiation-induced oral mucositis and related neuropathic pain.

5/30/24: Dr. Mowery was selected for an ECI Travel Award!

5/1/24: The Mowery lab welcomes Neil Shah to the lab for the summer as an undergraduate student from the University of Pittsburgh!

4/15/24: Dr. Rickard was awarded a Professional Development Award!

3/1/24: The Mowery lab welcomes Younjin Jeong to the lab as a visiting graduate student!

12/15/23: Mowery lab published “Preclinical Evaluation of the ATR Inhibitor BAY 1895344 as a Radiosensitizer for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma”