Duke KURe Shines at 2025 8th Annual CAIRIBU Conference!
CAIRIBU fosters cross-disciplinary engagement to accelerate discovery and innovation. Through this annual gathering, CAIRIBU strengthens its mission to cultivate scientific collaboration, generate transformative insights, and advance translational science to reduce the burden of benign urologic disease. The annual CAIRIBU meeting highlights and celebrates trainees and early-stage investigators in particular, and offers them multiple networking opportunities.
At this year's meeting, nearly 100 abstracts were submitted with 39 institutions represented.
Congratulations!
- Best Abstract and Oral presenter: Ananya Pinnamaneni, mentee of Michael Odom, 2025 KURe alum
- Best poster award to current KURe scholars: Jennifer Hammel and Natasha Wilkins
- CAIRIBU Recognition Award: Cindy Amundsen, PI/PD, for her commitment to the growth of early career investigators and fostering engagement and collaboration
Invited speakers included James Hokanson (2017 KURe alum), Natasha Wilkins (current scholar), Michael Odom, 2025 KURe alum, and Junqin Chen (postdoc of K12 mentor, Pei Zhang).
Posters were presented by postdocs / mentees of Naz Siddiqui (2017 alum and KURe mentor), Tanya Sysoeva (2018), and Jim Hokanson (2017)
Current KURe scholar Grant West presented a poster.
Alumni and Duke KURe mentors (James Hokanson, Byron Hayes, Michael Odom, Chuck Scales, and Grant West) served as abstract reviewers, moderators, round table facilitators, and meeting summary speakers.