News
May 2019 – Dr. Hui Zong’s talk at Basser Conference for BRCA was well received!
He presented our Basser-funded project on modeling pre-malignant stage of triple neative breast cancer, and got to learn from experts in the field of BRCA. Ray had a good time…
March 2019 – Dr. Ying Jiang delivered a great talk at Keystone Symposium on Innate Immunity!
She presented our project on an intricate TME network in brain tumor that involves microglia and astrocytes.
February 2019 – Goodbye to Jungeun!
Jungeun decided to pursue a job as medical coordinator for brain cancer clinical trials.
March 2019 – Eli and Ray’s grant on ovarian cancer prevention got awarded!
We got awarded a pilot grant from the Rivkin Foundation, with the goal to test ovarian cancer prevention efficacy in our MADM model.
February 2019 – Yen Nguyen is our lab’s newest member!
Yen joined our lab for her thesis work to study the roles of tumor-associated microglia in brain tumors.
August 2018 – Tiffany’s getting married!
Congratulations to Tiffany Shand for her wedding with Jonathan Terry on August 23 in Atlanta!
August 2018 – Jungeun’s new grant on glioma treatment started
Congratulations to Dr. Jungeun Kim for the start of a Schiff Foundation grant to test combinatorial treatment strategies against glioma, in collaboration with BJ Purow’s lab.
July 2018 – Bing’s new grant on zebrafish cancer model started
Congratulations to Dr. Bing Xu for the start of a NIH R21 to establish a zebrafish MADM system to watch tumor initiation & tumor-TME interactions in realtime, in collaboration with…
July 2018 – Ray & Ping’s new grant on breast cancer prevention started
Congratulations to Ray Zeng and Ping He for the start of a Basser Foundation grant to study breast cancer early detection and prevention with the MADM mouse model.
Welcome to Fabiola Sotomayor from Puerto Rico, joining the Summer Research Internship Program at UVa.
