Departmental News Big kudos to Khushbu Patel, a PhD Candidate in the Arias lab, for being awarded a Poster Prize with her outstanding work on HCC at the 2023 WIA International Symposium! Congratulations to Alexander Ledet, an MD/PhD Candidate co-mentored in the Arias lab Alexander Ledet, an MD/PhD Candidate co-mentored in the Arias lab, passed his qualifying exam with Honors. Congratulations, Alex! Looking forward to all the exciting work you have planned for studying MAFLD! Esperanza Arias received the Ceriale Junior Investigator Award in an event celebrated at the Cosmopolitan Club in Manhattan Esperanza Arias received the Ceriale Junior Investigator Award in an event celebrated at the Cosmopolitan Club in Manhattan. She is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Medicine, Division of Hepatology, and the Department of Pathology at AECOM. She also became a faculty member of the Marion Bessin Liver Research Center, the Montefiore-Einstein Cancer Center, and the Aging Research Center.