Dr. Nina Steele recently joined the Division of Digestive Diseases in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. She was awarded a K99/R00 NCI award to help aid her transition to early stage faculty, and currently holds a Lustgarten Foundation award as co-PI for her translational research. Her lab focuses on cell communication in the pancreatic tumor microenvironment, with a recent focus on utilizing multi-omics data (spatial transcriptomics and proteomics) analysis to longitudinally map pancreatic disease progression over time in the same patient.