Kevin Roarty Lab

Roarty Lab News

Master
Content

Welcome to the lab, Maddie!

After laboratory rotations this past academic year, we can now officially welcome Madelyn Esquivel (Maddie) to the Roarty lab! Maddie is a graduate student from the Cancer and Cell Biology Program here at BCM, and we're so excited to have her join the team. Welcome to the lab, Maddie!

Happy New Year - 2021!

We're excited to welcome Madelyn Esquivelto the lab for her rotation. Madelyn is from the Cancer and Cell Biology Graduate Program here at Baylor College of Medicine.

Translational research initiatives funded!

Kevin Roarty was awarded a Baylor College of Medicine Breast SPORE CEP.

Exciting projects funded!

Kevin Roarty received a Faculty Seed Award from Baylor College of Medicine. Thank you to the Caroline Wiess Law Fund for Research in Molecular Medicine and the L.E. Gordy Cancer Research Fund to support our research endeavors to better understand breast cancer metastasis!

Welcoming a new rotation student to the lab

We are excited to welcome Ying to the lab as a new rotation student from the Cancer and Cell Biology Program here at BCM. Ying joins us from The University of Minnesota Medical School with extensive experience in mammary gland biology, and we are excited to have her in the lab during Term 1!

Susan G. Komen Scholar Series

March, 12, 2020 - Kevin Roarty was the Keynote Speaker for the Susan G. Komen Scholar Series of the North & West Texas Chapter. It was a pleasure to meet the organizers, patients, and advocates during this special event. It was also nice to be able to share our research on breast cancer, communicate how Susan G. Komen supports our research endeavors on metastasis and therapeutic resistance, and educate the community on why supporting science is so important. Very inspiring to be a part of this event.

Breast Disease Research Seminar Series

June 10, 2020 - Kevin Roarty gave the first Virtual Talk for the Breast Disease Workshop of the Baylor College of Medicine Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, it was good to be able to engage with some great colleagues. We had some great questions and are looking forward to pursuing some new directions in our research. I clearly need to work on my camera angle!

2019 New Hires 

Hongjiang Si joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. His expertise is in vascular and lymphatic biology along with calcium signaling. Great experience for our studies on breast cancer metastasis.

Andrea Pedroza joins the lab as a research associate. Andrea has extensive experience in histology, and we're excited to have her join the team.