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NEWS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2023

2022

December 2022

Welcome Liang-Wei Lin to join our lab.
Congratulations Mo-Fan (Elena) Huang for receiving The Antje Wuelfrath Gee and Harry Gee, Jr. Family Legacy Scholarship

Dr. Brittany Jewell comes back to Houston and visits us.

November 2022

Welcome Dr. Yu-Wen Huang to join our lab.
Congratulations Dr. An Xu for renewing the CPRIT BIG-TCR fellowship.

October 2022

Dr. Lee meets Dr. Arnold J Levine at the 6th International LFS Association Symposium. Bethesda, MD

Congratulations Dr. Lee for being selected as a Reprogramming Star and interviewed by Dr. Filipe Pereira, Editor-in-Chief of Cellular Reprogramming
Congratulations Mo-Fan (Elena) Huang and Rachel Shoemaker for their manuscript (News & Views) accepted in Cellular Reprogramming.

August 2022

Drs Lee and Zhao have lunch with Dr. Mien-Chie Hung (The President of China Medical University, Taiwan) at John P. McGovern Texas Medical Center Commons

Rachel Shoemaker presents her summer research in the UTHealth CPRIT undergraduate summer research.
Congratulations Rachel Shoemaker for receiving the third place and people's choice awards of elevator speech in the UTHealth CPRIT undergraduate summer research program.

July 2022

Congratulations to Drs Jian Tu and Zijun Huo's PNAS paper (Hereditary retinoblastoma iPSC model reveals aberrant spliceosome function driving bone malignancies) is highlighted by NCI Division of Cancer Biology - Sarcoma Awareness Month Highlights.
Congratulations to our collaborators Dr. Xian-Biao Xie and Jing-Nan Shen for their paper accepted in EBioMedicine.

June 2022

Congratulations to Mo-Fan (Elena) Huang for receiving the Rosalie B. Hite Fellowship.

May 2022

Congratulations to Dr. An Xu for receiving the Best Poster Award in the UTHealth IBP Department Retreat

April 2022

Congratulations to Mo-Fan (Elena) Huang for receiving 3rd place GSEC Poster Competition Award in the UTHealth Annual Retreat

March 2022

Congratulations to Drs Jian Tu and Zijun Huo's Hereditary Retinoblastoma iPSC manuscript was accepted in PNAS.

January 2022

Welcome Rachel Shoemaker, Taylor Rosen, and Hannah Ashraf joining our lab.

2021

December 2021

Congratulations to our collaborator Dr. Francesca Aguilo for her paper accepted in EMBO Reports.
Congratulations to Dr. Brittany Jewell for her paper accepted in PLOS Genetics.

October 2021

Dr. Lee serves as a Webber Prize Competition Judge.
Congratulations to Dr. An Xu for being awarded the CPRIT BIG-TCR Postdoctoral Fellowship. We particularly thank Dr. Huihui Fan serves a co-mentor for An's research.
Drs Zhao and Lee serve as the 31st Keck Annual Research Conference poster judges.
Congratulations to Mo-Fan (Elena) Huang and Lon Kai Pang's iPSC-Cardiomyocytes review article accepted in Cells.

September 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Dandan Zhu for being selected to present her work in 2021 Bone Program Annual Scientific Retreat.
Welcome Mo-Fan (Elena) Huang to join The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) .

August 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Ariadne Letra for NIH/NIDCR R56 grant (Dr. Dung-Fang Lee serves as a co-investigator)

April 2021

Congratulations to Lon Kai Pang for receiving Blayor Colledge Medicine (BCM) admission and join BCM Medical School.

March 2021

Congratulations to Mo-Fan (Elena) Huang, for receiving The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) admission and join GSBS.

Congratulations to Dr. Brittany Ellis Jewell for moving to Salk Institute for Biological Studies as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Reuben Shaw's laboratory.

Congratulations to Drs Lee, Zhao, and Huff for being awarded NIH/NCI R01 grant

February 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Brittany Ellis Jewell for receiving her Ph.D. degree.
Congratulations to Brittany Ellis Jewell for passing the Ph.D. defense

Brittany Jewell PhD Dissertation Defense

January 2021

Congratulations to Dr. An Xu and Mo-Fan (Elena) Huang for publishing their first-author paper in Frontiers in Genetics.

2020

December 2020

Congratulations to Lon Kai Pang for publishing his first-author review article in Stem Cell Research

October 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Lee for being awarded The Pablove Foundation Childhood Cancer Research Grant

July 2020

Congratulations to Drs Lee and Zhao for being awarded UTHealth Cancer Genomics Core Grant

April 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Zijun Huo for publishing her first-author book chapter in Methods in Molecular Biology (Immune Mediators in Cancer).

March 2020

Congratulations to Brittany E Jewell for being awarded GSBS/UTHSC Student Travel Award

February 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Dandan Zhu for being awarded Department of Defense Horizon Award
Congratulations to Dr. Mo Liu for being promoted to be a Instructor