Our collaborative project led by Yiran Hou, a postdoc in Anna Huttenlocher’s lab, has been funded. AAI Intersect Fellowship is designed to get a wet/dry lab postdoc to work in the interface of both fields …
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Skin Diseases Research Center pilot project awarded
We are excited to be awarded a pilot grant to study the roles of neutrophil heterogeneity in burn injury at the Skin Diseases Research Center at the University of Wisconsin (UWSDRC).
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 …
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 …
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. …
Our scRNA-Seq analysis of esophageal cancers is published in Nature Communications
In collaboration with Dr. Dechen Lin’s lab at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and scientists from the Shantou University Medical College, we used scRNA-Seq to characterize the tumor microenvironment of esophageal squamous carcinoma and identified CST1+ …
Our collaborative paper, quantifying iso-form expression for scRNA-Seq, out in Bioinformatics!
We contributed as a co-author to the publication of the Scasa method, developed by Trung Nghia Vu group at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, the first method to estimate isoform-level expression for 10X single-cell RNA-Seq.
Athena and Josh won the travel awards
Athena will go to AACR 2022 to present her work on head and neck cancer myeloid cells. Josh will go to AAI 2022 to present his work on fallopian tube immune cells. Both got travel …
UWCCC Transdisciplinary Cancer Immunology-Immunotherapy Pilot Project awarded
We are awarded a pilot grant to search for a biomarker for the response to immunotherapy in combination with radiation in liver metastatic colorectal cancer patients, together with Dr. Dusty Deming. The award is based …