Lisa Bouchier-Hayes

LBH lab at BCM, Houston | Caspases in cell death, cancer, inflammation, sickle cell | 🇮🇪 in 🇺🇸| It’s pronounced Bow-cher!

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

New lab photo! We got to have a lab holiday party this year for the first time in forever to cap off one of our most successful years yet. It is such a pleasure to get to work with this talented group of scientists. #WomenInSTEM Photo credit @Dharaniya9

[TCH Pediatric Hematology Oncology Fellowship @TCHHemOncFellow]

Caspases don’t just execute cell death—they regulate disease.

The @LisaBHayes_lab is mapping previously unrecognized roles in AML and sickle cell disease biology. 🔬

Learn more about this exciting work and the people behind it: https://t.co/07v17xiyYt

#PediatricResearch

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

Congratulations Dr Alexandra Brown-Suedel PhD for passing her dissertation defense today! So proud of you!! #proudPI ⁦@BCMGradSchool⁩

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

Happy Halloween from the Bouchier-Hayes lab!

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

A new one to add to the collection 🎉🙌

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

So excited to share that our latest paper is finally out today!!!!🥳🙌🎉

Caspase-2 is essential for proliferation and self-renewal of nucleophosmin-mutated acute myeloid leukemia | Science Advances https://t.co/Xzuczwt9mu

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

Lab outing to celebrate the graduations of Dia Sakthivel @Dharaniya9 and Stephanie Wood!

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

Congratulations Dia! It was such an honor to be with you at your graduation last night @Dharaniya9 @BCMGradSchool

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

A huge congratulations to Suruchi Salgar for being awarded the ASH graduate student fellowship AND getting a fundable score on her NRSA F30 application!! #proudPI @BCMGradSchool @TCHResearchNews

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

Introducing our newest lab member Luiza Elias Coutinho. Already making a great impression by winning first place in the elevator pitch competition at the BCM GSBS symposium @BCMGradSchool

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

First PhD thesis from the LBH lab!!! Congratulations @Dharaniya9

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

So proud of you Suruchi! You did an amazing job #ProudPI #ASH2023

[BCM MD/PhD Program @BCM_MSTP]

Like a boss! Suruchi Salgar showing some hardcore biochemistry to demonstrate heme binds to caspase4 to activate inflammation in sickle cell disease. #ASH2023 @BCMGradSchool

[BCM MD/PhD Program @BCM_MSTP]

Like a boss! Suruchi Salgar showing some hardcore biochemistry to demonstrate heme binds to caspase4 to activate inflammation in sickle cell disease. #ASH2023 @BCMGradSchool

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

Congratulations Dr Dharaniya Sakthivel PhD for completing your defense with flying colors! #ProudPI

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

Ready to start Dia’s defense!!! ⁦@Dharaniya9⁩

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

@FindlaterGroup Aw thanks. It’s been rattling about in my brain for a few days!

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

My recent post about taking 8 years/tries to get a fundable score resonated with many of you. Here are a few thoughts about what I learned. Disclaimer: I haven’t got the reviews yet so don’t know what exactly swung it and what worked for me may not be universal. 1/19

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

@FindlaterGroup @KinesKing @FlanaganLab I have alot of thoughts on this - I put them in a new thread on my main page if you want to continue this conversation!

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

8 years, 8 submissions, 3 different study sections, 4 NDs, and two different institutes later and we finally got a fundable score on our R01!!!!!!!!!

Thanks so much to my co-PI @FlanaganLab, my lab, and all our amazing collaborators for getting us to this point!

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

I hope this helps, but remember: there are a lot of applications and not enough money to go around so getting an ND is, in my opinion, becoming more common. It is not an indictment on your scientific ability and it is possible to bounce back from it. 19/19

[Lisa Bouchier-Hayes @LisaBHayes_lab]

That’s all I got for now. I am glad some of you are inspired by my persistence (I like to say stubborn streak) but, honestly, I don’t have enough ideas to start over with a completely new application. And we had already invested a lot in the project. 18/19