After a long Covid break Steven, Wen-wei and Yige finally attended the graduation ceremony at WashU. Exciting get-together!
Huge congrats to Dr. Yige Wu! Well deserved! Yige is going to stay for couple months as a postdoc to finish her projects. P.S. more pics to come
Thirteen grad students and postdocs represented our lab at the annual AACR 2022 meeting in New Orleans. We are grateful to all opportunities this meeting provides and to Li for supporting us in this endeavor!
Akshay Govindan - a talented undergrad student in our lab - received the Science Education Awards for Undergraduate Students from AACR. We are proud and excited for your next achievements. Plus now Akshay gets to come to AACR 2023 for free.
One of our best computer scientist received his PhD on December 21st 2021! Well deserved, Bobo!
I’m very excited to actually do all the analyses proposed.
Alla
The goal of the research program, called the Washington University Participant Engagement and Cancer Genomic Sequencing Center (WU-PE-CGS), is to fill gaps in knowledge to help reduce the disparities seen in rare and understudied cancers that affect underrepresented groups. It will focus on African American patients with colorectal cancer and multiple myeloma, as well as patients of any race or ethnicity with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare cancer of the bile ducts.
The program includes three major units led by investigators with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise. They are cancer biologist Li Ding, PhD, a professor of medicine in the Division of Oncology and a professor of genetics; cancer epidemiologist Bettina F. Drake, PhD, a professor of surgery in the Division of Public Health Sciences; and surgical oncologist Ryan C. Fields, MD, the Kim and Tim Eberlein Distinguished Professor in the Department of Surgery.
Read more here
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.