Dr. Raoud Marayati wins first place at the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB Research Retreat on Oct. 11, 2019. (Photo courtesy of the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB)

General surgery resident Raoud Marayati, M.D., won first place last week at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center’s 21st annual Research Retreat. Marayati took home the award for best research poster in the Clinical Residents and Fellows Category for her project, "PIM3 Kinase Promotes Tumor Growth and Metastasis in Hepatoblastoma.”

Marayati, a researcher in the lab of Division of Pediatric Surgery’s Elizabeth Beierle, M.D., also received the award for best resident research presentation at this summer’s annual meeting of the Alabama and Mississippi Chapters of the American College of Surgeons for a similar project for which she also won the Society of University Surgeons Resident Research Scholar Award last year.

According to the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB, more than 500 UAB faculty, residents, fellows and students attended the Research Retreat on Friday, Oct. 11, where they presented their cancer-related research and participated in the event’s annual poster competition.