Cancer Research SocietySeven Lakes HS
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Where students do real cancer research.
Katy ISD's first student-led cancer research organization — a registered 501(c)(3) that places members on live research, publishes their work in OncoLegacy, and opens doors to labs that don't normally take high schoolers.
We connect members to university and hospital labs — and help write the emails that actually get answered.
Every meeting: one oncology subspecialty, one research masterclass. Depth, not filler.
Our student-run publication — members turn hard oncology into writing the community can read.
Fundraising, awareness, and collaborations across the Katy & Cypress area.
A campus group tour — plus the research happening directly across the street.
A one-hour group tour for our chapter — up to 40 students, booked a semester out. Not sightseeing: we come with questions.
Rice Bioengineering — Immunoengineering & Cancer: teaching the immune system to recognize tumors, alongside the Institute of Biosciences & Bioengineering.
MD Anderson & Baylor sit across the street — the same institutions our members already work with.
100+ diseased tissue slides and real microscopes we provide — you sit down, focus the field, and learn to spot what a pathologist sees.
Culture a live bacterial strain, drop in different antibiotics, and measure the zones of inhibition — real antibiotic-susceptibility testing.
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Pick a topic you care about. We help you learn it well enough to ask a real question — then find the mentor who'll answer.
Already have a question? We build your outreach list and write the emails with you. Mentorship guaranteed within a month.
A year-long project toward a national presentation. Applications for the 2028 team open April 2027.
An approved-drug library docked against the DCLK1 kinase domain — 3,000+ compounds.
Benchmark vs. known binders; cut by hinge hydrogen-bond pose quality.
Top hits re-scored with Boltz-2 co-folding into a defensible shortlist.
Wet-lab confirmation — MST, ITC, kinase-array. Prediction becomes data.
Teaching a neural network to spot Mott cells and Russell bodies on pathology slides — the morphological fingerprint of multiple myeloma.
No published model targets them. No public dataset labels them. So he's building both.
Austin — come on up. →
Members who show the most commitment win a flight-covered trip to AACR 2027 — the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, where practicing oncologists present. This past April our members flew to San Diego for our first research trip; next stop, Orlando.
Meeting attendance, OncoLegacy submissions, outreach hours, and progress on your own research project.
Flights for selected members, plus AACR registration for students who couldn't otherwise go — from the $5,000+ we've raised.
You don't just attend AACR — you present alongside it.
Bi-monthly case discussions on the ethics inside modern medicine — integrated with CRS, so your research and your ethics training run together.
Review real protocol scenarios the way a review board would.
Learn what makes a study ethically sound before you run it.
Authorship, data handling, conflicts of interest, consent.
One meeting, one question, one discovery at a time.