<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2023/justine-valentino.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>10/25/2023</pubDate><title>Member of the Class of 2024 is an Award-Winning and Soon-To-Be Published Cancer Researcher</title><description>Justine Valentino ’24 is conducting critical research exploring a possible link between gynecological cancers and the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. She’s presented her work to the University community, and it is also gaining attention from academic journals and nonprofit organizations.</description><hide-description/><author>Renee Chmiel, Office of Marketing and Communications</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>October 25, 2023</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/health-sciences/news/2023/valentin-summer-researchers.jpg" alt="Left to right: Vasavi Venkata Kavitapu, Dr. Eva Sapi, Jasmine A. Jathan, Jay Manish Pandya, &amp; Justine Valentino ’24."/></image><image-caption>Left to right: Vasavi Venkata Kavitapu, Dr. Eva Sapi, Jasmine A. Jathan, Jay Manish Pandya, &amp; Justine Valentino ’24. The summer researchers were supporting breast cancer awareness at the Think &amp; Wear Pink event along with the Pink Clover Foundation at the Alumni Lounge in Bartels Hall in October 2023.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2023</tag></tags></item>