Iris Liu Awarded Summer Intern Scholarship in Cardiothoracic Surgery by American Association of Thoracic Surgery

Iris Liu, BA, a first-year medical student at UCSF and former HHMI scholar at Dartmouth,has been awarded a prestigious Summer Intern Scholarship in Cardiothoracic Surgery by the American Association of Thoracic Surgery for 2018. The program was established to introduce the field of cardiothoracic surgery to first and second year medical students with the goal of broadening their educational experience by working in an AATS member's, cardiothoracic surgery department. The Scholarship is partially funded by Scanlan International Inc. and the AATS Foundation.

Liu’s research is focused on studying mechanisms of resistance and recurrence in non-small cell lung cancer, with an emphasis on harnessing large-scale “omics" data to elucidate patterns of molecular alterations in the tumor and tumor microenvironment. She will pursue this research in the Kratz Lab and Bivona Lab at UCSF and will attend the AATS annual meeting in 2019.