Dr. Deshka Foster joins the show to discuss her recent paper published in Cancer Cell titled “Multinomic analysis reveals conservation of cancer-associated fibroblast phenotypes across species and tissue of origin.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1535610822004445?dgcid=coauthor
We also talk about Dr. Foster’s career as a Stanford General Surgery resident. Dr. Foster says she was able to earn her PhD by adding an extra year onto her professional development time thanks to amazing mentorship and the Advanced Residency Training at Stanford (ARTS) Program: https://med.stanford.edu/arts.html
Learn how she got interested in bench work, managed her time, got funding, and totally crushed it.
p.s. “Desmoplasia” is actually spelled exactly how it sounds!
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