Congratulations to Aicha Quamine, Hematology/Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant Graduate Student in the Capitini Laboratory, who was recently awarded a 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) for her project “Bioengineering and Characterization of a Novel Third Generation Anti-GD2 CAR-NK Cell.” The NSF GRF provides three years of financial support for tuition, fees, and other costs of education. Aicha’s research performed under the direction and mentorship of Christian Capitini, MD, will investigate whether the engineering of a novel anti-GD2 CAR natural killer (NK) construct that exploits endogenous signaling pathways typically used by NK subsets will produce a CAR-NK cell type with enhanced cytotoxicity and cytokine production against a GD2+ neuroblastoma, also resulting in an increase in CAR NK cell glycolysis.