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LECOM-Bradenton Scholar Wins Prestigious Poster Award at Florida Medical Association Annual Meeting

The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) congratulates fourth-year medical school scholar, Nicolette Casarcia, on her recent victorious poster presentation during the David A. Paulus, M.D. Poster Symposium at the Annual Meeting of Florida Medical Association (FMA) in Orlando, Florida held from August 2-4, 2024.

Nicolette’s poster entitled, Phytochemicals in the Prevention and Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer: Progress, Pitfalls, and Promise, represents a study that she and six other LECOM-Bradenton medical students conducted. Patrick Rogers, Samvit Iyer, Emma Guld, Yutong Li, Jack T. Burcher, and Lindsay K. DeLiberto joined in the project. The team performed the research under the guidance of Anupam Bishayee, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology and Director of Research.

Nicolette Casarcia