Josh passed the preliminary exam and became a dissertator working on ovarian and colorectal cancer projects. Congratulations! Parth will officially be a joint PhD student co-supervised by Christina Kendziorski for his BDS PhD projects. Zach …
Year: 2022
Wisconsin Immunomodulatory Targeted Radionuclide Therapy (ITRT) Program pilot project awarded
We are awarded to study the roles of neutrophils in immunomodulatory targeted radionuclide therapy from the Wisconsin ITRT Program Project Grant in Head and Neck cancer. We are excited to join the community of Multi-disciplinary …
Anqi joins the lab for her PhD study
Anqi Gao officially joined the lab after her summer rotation from the MSTP program. She finished her 3rd year at medical school and will join the CMP graduate program as a Ph.D. student. Anqi will …
New students joining the lab this summer
New faces joining the lab this summer Alicia Tee (UW CS student) joined as a 2022 Summer LASER undergraduate scholar, working on making R Shiny apps to visualize scRNA-Seq data. Rishil Mehta (UW MD student) …
Josh was awarded a CMP T32 fellowship
Josh was selected to be an NIH Trainee in the Cellular and Molecular Training Program for the school year of 2022-2023! Congrats! Thanks to the support from the National Institute Of General Medical Sciences of …
Our joint paper with the Lambert lab defining the role of K17 and immune landscapes of head and neck cancer immunotherapy published in Clinical Cancer Research
Together with Paul Lambert’s lab, we identified the roles of K17 contribution in HNC immunotherapy and the immune landscape switch from “cold tumors” to “hot tumors” using scRNA-Seq. The work was led by Wei Wang …
Students’ travel awards & Lab conference presentations – Spring 2022
Congratulations on the lab presentations in Spring 2022. Athena won the 2022 AACR Scholar-in-training award to present at the annual AACR meeting in New Orleans, LA in April 2022. Josh won the 2022 AAI Trainee …
Our collaborative paper in scRNA-Seq of EBV lines published in PLoS Pathogens
Our collaborative work with Shannon Kenney’s lab used scRNA-Seq to identify the roles of IRF4 in type 2 EBV lytic induction was out in PloS Pathogens. Josh is the 2nd author leading the scRNA-Seq analysis. …
Lab personnel update – Spring 2022
Aisha left for a Study Director position in Covance. She will lead the preclinical study there. Congrats and Best wishes for the new job! Wanyi Guo and Xindi Tang joined the lab as undergraduate researchers …