Assistant Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Dr. Ashley Holder is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, where she was an HHMI Medical Student Research Fellow, and completed her general surgery residency at Washington University in St. Louis, where she served as one of two administrative chief residents and was a finalist for the ACS Jameson L. Chassin, M.D., FACS Award for Professionalism. She completed a T32 research fellowship during her residency and then her fellowship in Complex General Surgical Oncology at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center and was awarded the Daniel Benedict Gazan Fellowship in Sarcoma Research. Her previous basic and translational research was awarded a High-Impact High-Risk Grant Award by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to investigate a novel nanoparticle platform to enhance the effect of chemotherapy and subsequently received an internal grant to transition this platform from the bench to Phase I clinical trials. She is currently exploring the lymphatic transport of immune cells between primary cutaneous melanoma and the sentinel nodal basin to understand how macrophages facilitate lymphatic metastasis, which will be supported by the ACS Clowes Award starting in July 2022. Her basic and translational research program aims to build our understanding of the metastatic process, ultimately culminating in the development of innovative therapies for cutaneous melanoma and other cancers.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Monday, February 28, 2022
5:00 PM – 6:45 PM CST
Saturday, March 12, 2022
8:00 AM – 9:40 AM CST