![Christian Capitini, MD](https://familycircle.pediatrics.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Capitini_Chr.jpg)
Congratulations to Katharine Tippins, medical student, and her mentor, Christian Capitini, MD, for receiving a Summer Student Fellowship from St. Baldrick’s Foundation in the amount of $5,000. This 4-month Summer Fellowship is for her project entitled, “Generating an NK-mediated graft-versus-tumor effect against osteosarcoma,” which she will use murine bone marrow transplant (BMT) models to develop evidence for a clinically applicable combined strategy that utilizes immunocytokines (IC) to enhance anti-tumor properties of immunologically activated, ex vivo activated natural killer (NK) cells. The underlying goal of this study is to develop a bone marrow transplant that can cure osteosarcoma.