Ph.D. student wins poster award at VCU School of Pharmacy Research Day

Oct. 27, 2025

Grace Rilee won one of two graduate poster awards at the recent schoolwide event.

Dean K.C. Ogbonna and Associate Dean Mary Peace McRae stand on either side of graduate student poster award winners Grace Rilee and Yasir Alshehry, at the front of a lecture hall on Research Day. — Ph.D. students Grace Rilee (center left) and Yasir Alshehry won graduate poster awards at VCU School of Pharmacy's 2025 Research Day.

Ph.D. student Grace Rilee, advised by Jiong Li, Ph.D., won the Best Poster Award at last week's Research and Career Day for the VCU School of Pharmacy. The title of her poster was "Targeting MDA-9/Syntenin-1 (SDCBP) as a Strategy to Eliminate Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Stem Cells." Congratulations; we're proud of you, Grace!

Read about all of our winners in our Research Day article on VCU School of Pharmacy News.