Rankin Receives Prestigious Minority Scholar Travel Award

Bethany Rankin, center, with Tatiana Shaurova and Marc Koyack.

Bethany Rankin, center, with Tatiana Shaurova and Marc Koyack.

Published February 16, 2012 This content is archived.

Bethany Rankin, a PhD candidate in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, has received a Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

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The prestigious award—made possible by a grant from the National Cancer Institute’s Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities—supports Rankin’s attendance at the AACR’s annual meeting, March 31 to April 4 in Chicago.

Rankin works in the laboratory of Rajendram Rajnarayanan, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology.

She is a former participant of UB’s CLIMB Program.

“My goal is to be a physician-scientist,” Rankin says. “I hope to one day develop treatments that target tamoxifen-resistant breast cancers and triple-negative breast cancers, both of which are relatively vigorous and lack effective treatments.”