{"id":5546,"date":"2019-07-26T12:47:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=5546"},"modified":"2019-07-26T12:50:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:50:22","slug":"cpb-graduate-student-alix-dieterly-wins-three-national-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/cpb-graduate-student-alix-dieterly-wins-three-national-awards.php","title":{"rendered":"CPB Graduate Student Alix Dieterly Wins Three National Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8094_copy1_sm-1024x809.jpg\" alt=\"Alix stands in her laboratory wearing a white coat with shelves of beakers behind her\" class=\"wp-image-5552\" width=\"400\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8094_copy1_sm-1024x809.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8094_copy1_sm-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8094_copy1_sm-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8094_copy1_sm-297x235.jpg 297w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8094_copy1_sm.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>Dr. Alix Dieterly, a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Pathobiology, received three awards at the recent 38th Annual Society of Toxicologic Pathology Symposium.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A graduate student in Purdue Veterinary Medicine\u2019s\nDepartment of Comparative Pathobiology, Dr. Alix Dieterly, received three awards\nat the 38<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP) Symposium,\nwhich was held last month in Raleigh, N.C. Dr. Dieterly is a PhD candidate as\nwell as a veterinarian and board-certified anatomic pathologist.&nbsp; She received the awards for research she is doing\nunder the mentorship of Dr. Tiffany Lyle, assistant professor of veterinary\nanatomic pathology.&nbsp; Dr. Lyle is the principal investigator of the\nresearch, which is being conducted in her Blood-Brain Barrier Laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research involves assessing changes in the restrictive blood vessels in the brain, or blood-brain barrier in lung cancer brain metastases.&nbsp; There are currently no effective treatments for patients whose lung cancer metastasizes to the brain.&nbsp; Drs. Lyle and Dieterly hope to identify a therapeutic option by utilizing changes in the blood-brain barrier.&nbsp; Dr. Dieterly has a year left in her PhD program.&nbsp; In the first two years of her dissertation research, her work has involved a time course evaluation of one of three different types of lung cancer as well as characterizing metastatic lesions in the vertebral bodies and parenchymal organs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8042_copy2_sm-1024x892.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Dieterly examines slides under a microscope\" class=\"wp-image-5551\" width=\"400\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8042_copy2_sm-1024x892.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8042_copy2_sm-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8042_copy2_sm-768x669.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8042_copy2_sm-270x235.jpg 270w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_8042_copy2_sm.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>Dr. Dieterly works on research under the leadership of Dr. Tiffany Lyle, assistant professor of veterinary anatomic pathology, to identify the changes in the brain vasculature in lung cancer brain metastases.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the awards Dr. Dieterly received is the STP Student\nTravel Award, which is presented to graduate students based on several\ncriteria, including their experimental design and the impact of their research.&nbsp; She also received the International Academy\nof Toxicologic Pathology\/STP Toxicologic Pathology Trainee Award, which is presented\nto a graduate student studying toxicologic pathology whose research accomplishments\ninclude contributing to public safety, establishing testing methods and\nstandards, and developing new techniques.&nbsp;\nAdditionally, Dr. Dieterly received the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Place Young\nInvestigator Award for her poster presentation.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The STP Student Travel Award consisted of a $1,000 stipend\nto go toward travel and lodging costs for the STP Annual Convention, as well as\ncomplimentary registration and STP student membership for the following year.&nbsp; The Trainee Award also included a $1,000 stipend\nand the Young Investigator Award came with a $500 prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Dieterly said attending the STP Symposium and receiving the awards can open many doors for the future and gives her important visibility in the toxicologic pathology community. She said it has been rewarding to be able to do the research and receive such recognition.&nbsp; She also praised the STP for being very supportive toward students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Dieterly earned her BVMS degree (DVM equivalent) in 2017 at the University of Glasgow, Scotland and is board certified by the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP) in anatomic pathology. As an anatomic pathologist, she works with animal models in the pre-clinical stages of research to mirror what goes on in the human body. She hopes that eventually they will be able to transition the research to an <em>in vitro<\/em> model. After completing her PhD program, Dr. Dieterly plans to conduct research in an industrial setting. She wants to continue working on cancer studies with a focus on drug development and toxicities to find therapies that might otherwise go unknown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A graduate student in Purdue Veterinary Medicine\u2019s Department of Comparative Pathobiology, Dr. Alix Dieterly, received three awards at the 38th Annual Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP) Symposium, which was held last month in Raleigh, N.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1054],"tags":[1240,138,123,26,400,56,1241,1242,168],"class_list":["post-5546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-graduate-student","tag-alix-dieterly","tag-award","tag-cpb","tag-featured-story","tag-graduate-student","tag-homepage","tag-society-of-toxicologic-pathology","tag-stp-symposium","tag-tiffany-lyle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5546"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5569,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions\/5569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}