Carpe Diem

Shang officially signed the offer letter from Louisiana State U. Congrats that Shang became an assistant professor! Wish him well in his career.

After rotation, Prisca joined our lab, welcome Prisca!

“Androgen receptor splice variants drive castration-resistant prostate cancer metastasis by activating distinct transcriptional programs” was accepted by JCI. Yawei is the co-first author. A great collaboration between us and Dr. Changmeng Cai, U. Mass. Boston. Congrats to all authors!

The review paper titled “Unveiling Cancer Dormancy: Intrinsic Mechanisms and Extrinsic Forces” was accepted by Cancer Lett. Ruihua, Yawei, and Shang shared the 1st authors. Congrats to all authors!

We got three DOD grants! That's great! Keep going next year.

SBUR meeting was held on 11.09-11.12 this year. Dr. Li made a presentation on 11.11. Congrats to Yawei for being honored with Travel Award.

Yawei's poster was selected for the plenary presentation at ASBMR annual meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct. 13-16. Very nice work, congrats Yawei!

An article about cancer cell dormancy has been published on Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research. Congratulations!

Shang introduced Rstudio and some basic codes for us. This is our first workshop. Looking forward to more in the future.

Yiming joins the lab as a Research Assistant. Welcome!

Shang was promoted to Research Assistant Professor. Congratulations! Wish everything goes well with your work.

MD/PhD student Ian Berlin chose Li lab for his summer rotation. He will spend six weeks in Li lab. Welcome Ian!

PhD students Shubhra Dey and Augustine Kwabil officially joined Li lab on May 15, 2023. It is exciting to have you both in our team!

A review on PTHrP/PTH1R signaling led by Yawei is now online on Cancers. Congrats Yawei!

Augustine Kwabil, CAB track Ph.D student, starts his 7-wk rotation in the lab. Welcome, Augustine!

Shang attended the 12th AACR-JCA joint meeting in Maui, Hawaii from 12/10 to 12/14 and presented a poster on mitochondria project.

Shang's application for the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) Exploration Award was recommended for funding! Fantastic job and congratulations, Shang!

Dey, Shubhra Kanti, CAB track Ph.D student, starts his 7-wk rotation in the lab. Welcome, Shubhra!

CAB track Ph.D student, Jaya Bhandari, starts his 5-wks' rotation in the lab.

Our paper, "Enzalutamide-induced and PTH1R-mediated TGFBR2 degradation in osteoblasts confers resistance in prostate cancer bone metastases", was just accepted for publication in Cancer Letters. Cheers!

Shang was just awarded the “Excellence Award for Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Achievement in Cancer Biology”!

Cancer Biology Track MD/PhD student Alexandra Yungblut joined Li lab for her summer rotation.

Congrats for our first paper in UT, regarding the single-cell techniques in cancer metastasis studies.

Vineeth Atluru joins Li lab to conduct volunteer research.

Medical student Logan P Van Poucke joins Li lab for his undergraduate lab research course.

MOME track MS student Emily Crowe will get her first rotation in Li lab from 10/5 to 11/6.

Packages from VAI arrive! The Li Lab in UT College of Medicine and Life Sciences is open for running! Welcome to drop by in person or virtually.

All stuff packed up. Lab area is quiet. Farewell! We will miss the people in VAI.

Yawei Zhao will work on intermittant fasting effect on cancer bone metastasis and drug resistance.

Shang made an oral presentation on enzalutamide resistance in prostate cancer bone metastasis in CSHL meeting.

New force!!!

Dr. Li received a 5-year R01 funding support from NIH on the project "Influence of bone microenvironment on drug resistance in prostate cancer bone metastasis". The proposal got a score of 6%. Congrats to Dr. Li and Li lab!