PittPharmacy graduate student Ashley Fancher has received a Tony B. Academic Travel Award to attend the 2016 Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) conference in San Diego, California, January 2016. The Tony B. Academic Travel Award program recognizes up-and-coming researchers who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in laboratory science and technology.
Fancher will present her abstract titled, Development of secondary radio ligand binding and reporter assays to follow-up hits from the AR-TIF2 HCS. Fancher and team are developing assays to identify compounds with potential to be optimized into drugs for the treatment of castration resistant prostate cancer.
The Tony B. Academic Travel Award is a very prestigious and competitive award which honors Tony Beugelsdijk, Los Alamos National Laboratory, an Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) co-founder who passed away in August, 2009.
Paul A. Johnston, PhD, research associate professor at PittPharmacy, is Fancher’s faculty advisor.
