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Loesgen Lab Awarded Grant from the Florida Cancer Innovation Fund

March 11, 2026

Prof. Sandra Loesgen won a grant from the Casey DeSantis Florida Cancer Innovation Fund. Her team will work on the preclinical development of mensacarcin for melanoma and pediatric brain cancers. Click to read the Whitney Lab News article.

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Prof. Sandra Loesgen wins the inaugural Gator Angel Wing Award

December 17, 2025

Through the generous support of Dr. Nicholas Conti and Amy Fox Conti, this award supports bringing innovative research from the lab to the market. Read more here.

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Loesgen Lab publishes in the flagship journal for the International Society for Microbial Ecology

September 20, 2025

Manipulation of the Symbiodiniaceae microbiome confers multigenerational impacts on symbioses and reproductive ecology of its Exaiptasia diaphana host.