Research Focus Areas
Cancer Epigenetics & Metabolism
Tumor Immunology
Drug Development & Chemical Biology
Systems, Pathways & Targets
Area 5(1)
Latest News from CRI
New Funding
Congratulations to Mei Kong on her American Cancer Society Research Award for her proposal, “Dissecting the role of secreted metabolite in colon cancer metastasis”. Award Summary: The major cause of death in most cancer patients is metastases. Metastasis occurs when cancer cells leave the primary site of occurrence and thrive in distant organs. Despite many […]
New NIH CHD Supplemental Funding
Congratulations to Selma Masri and her team which were just awarded an NCI administrative supplement for cancer health disparities (CHD). This is a big deal as NCI had 2 calls last year and only awarded 10 supplements total. They applied to expand our ongoing work in colorectal cancer (CRC) to understand why Hispanics are at […]
New Publication
Congratulations Temoc Ramirez, T32 Trainee, on his co-author publication, “FAM120A couples SREBP-dependent transcription and splicing of lipogenesis enzymes downstream of mTORC1” in Molecular Cell Journal. This was a collaborative publication between Gina Lee, Cholsoon Jang and Fangyuan Ding labs. Link to the paper: HERE
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