This week October 26th 2021, Dan defended his doctoral dissertation! This is a huge step in your life Dan and we wish you all the best at the next step of your career.
We are so proud of Fernanda! She did an amazing job, and her thesis is going to be outstanding. Way to go!
The Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet) is supported by the NIH Common Fund and overseen by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Washington University will receive $7.5 million over five years to identify and describe senescent cells across multiple tissues. The Washington University Senescence Tissue Mapping Center (WU-SN-TMC) will be led by principal investigator Li Ding, PhD, a professor of medicine and of genetics; and co-principal investigators Feng Chen, PhD, an associate professor of medicine; Ryan C. Fields, MD, the Kim and Tim Eberlein Distinguished Professor of Surgery; and Sheila A. Stewart, PhD, the Gerty Cori Professor of Cell Biology & Physiology and a professor of medicine. We are so proud to be a part of this tremendous national effort!
Read WashU press release and NIH news release.
NCI posted a comprehensive summary of the recent CPTAC pancreatic adenocarcinoma paper. Go ahead and read about our collaborative effort to discover new insights into PDAC biology and treatment using proteogenomic approach!
Welcome Clara! Hope you have a good time in our lab :)
The editors at Nature Communications highlighted Hua’s paper in Editors’ Highlights aimed to showcase prominent articles in “Cancer” field. Congrats to our PDX models team!
Yizhe (EJ) and Omar joined the lab! Welcome both!
We held a surprise baby shower for Michael just in time! Less than a week later, Samuel Iglesia was born!
After more than a year of not seeing people in person, the lab gathered for some sushi at Drunken Fish to celebrate several milestones! Steven visited us from Delaware along with Miriam and baby Parker! We also held our first in-person project meeting as well in Li’s office!