1/31/22 We welcome Salina Singh, CIRM Bridges Intern, to the lab!
1/19/22 Congratulations to Aaron Keniston for successfully defending his masters thesis proposal!
12/6/21 The lab (with co-PI Dr. Yevgeniya Ioffe) has been awarded a GCAT for "Reversing Chemoresistance in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer"!
10/6/21 Goodbye to Dr. Hanmin Wang, who is starting a postdoctoral fellowship at City of Hope. We will miss you!
10/13/21 We welcome Ashlyn Bartlett, rotating first year PhD student, to the lab!
9/8/21 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev on the acceptance of his Cancers manuscript: "Let-7i Reduces Aggressive Phenotype and Induces BRCAness in Ovarian Cancer Cells"! Thanks to all coauthors: Tise Suzuki, Hanmin Wang, Anthony Nguyen, Nozomi Hojo, Linda Sanderman, Saied Mirshahidi, Yevgeniya Ioffe.
8/19/21 Congratulations to Tise Suzuki for successfully defending her thesis proposal!
8/12/21 We welcome Yeonkyu David Jung to the lab!
6/15/21 We welcome Giselle Magaña to the lab in the ABC summer program!
6/11/21 We welcome Ashley Antonissen, CIRM Bridges intern and Masters student, to the lab!
6/8/21 We welcome Kourtney Heald, Redlands University Summer Undergraduate Research Program, to the lab!
5/21/21 Congratulations to Dr. Hanmin Wang on defending his PhD defense! Title: The Role of the Snail/let-7 Axis in Stemness Induction in Distinct Subtypes of Ovarian Cancer: The Search for Cancer Stem Cell Targeting Strategies
4/16/21 Congratulations to Casey Curow on his successful defense of his honors thesis: "Snail-mediated chemoresistance in ovarian cancer"
3/16/21 Congratulations to Hanmin Wang for the acceptance of his Cancers manuscript: The epithelial-mesenchymal transcription factor SNAI1 represses transcription of the tumor suppressor miRNA let-7 in cancer"! Thanks to all coauthors: Evgeny Chirshev, Nozomi Hojo, Tise Suzuki, Antonella Bertucci, Michael Pierce, Christopher Perry, Ruining Wang, Jeffrey Zink, Carlotta Glackin, Yevgeniya J. Ioffe.
1/25/21 We welcome Aaron Keniston, CIRM Bridges Masters student, to the lab!
1/25/21 We welcome Alondra Enciso, CIRM Bridges student from CSUSB, to the lab!
1/7/21 We welcome Pedro Ochoa, rotating first year PhD student, to the lab!
10/29/20 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev for winning first place in the poster session at LLU Basic Sciences / IESCC Symposium!
10/6/20 We welcome Ann Morcos, rotating first year PhD student, to the lab!
7/27/20 We welcome Aries Torres, CIRM Bridges student from CSUSB, to the lab!
6/22/20 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev for the acceptance of his Molecular Oncology manuscript: "Epithelial/mesenchymal heterogeneity of high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma samples correlates with miRNA let-7 levels and predicts tumor growth and metastasis"! This is a team effort with contributions from Nozomi Hojo, Antonella Bertucci, Linda Sanderman, Anthony Nguyen, Hanmin Wang, Tise Suzuki, Emmanuel Brito, Christine Castañón, and Yevgeniya Ioffe. Thanks also to our collaborators!
6/15/20 We welcome Casey Curow, Redlands University Summer Undergraduate Research Program, to the lab!
6/2/20 Congratulations to Linda Sanderman for successfully defending her masters thesis!
6/1/20 We welcome Ryan Fuller, PhD student, to the lab!
5/27/20 Congratulations to Sang Nguyen on his graduation from UCR Medical School!
1/14/20 We welcome Michael Pierce, CIRM Bridges student from CSUSB, to the lab!
1/1/20 The lab (with co-PI Dr. Jerry Slater) has been awarded a GCAT for “Cancer cell aggressiveness caused by conventional vs. proton radiation"! In collaboration with Dr. Vazquez (Radiation Medicine), Dr. Bertucci (Radiation Medicine / Basic Sciences)
8/16/19 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev for the acceptance of his Clinical and Translational Medicine review: "Let-7 as biomarker, prognostic indicator, and therapy for precision medicine in cancer"
8/2/19 Congratulations to Linda Sanderman, CSUSB masters student, for successfully defending her thesis proposal!
8/1/19 We wish Evgeny Chirshev all the best as he begins medical school!
6/12/19 We welcome Gabriel Diaz to the lab in the ABC summer program!
6/12/19 We welcome Taylor Bothwell, SURF student from Pacific Union College, to the lab!
3/19/19 We are happy to announce that Tise Suzuki has joined the lab!
1/28/19 We welcome Emmanuel Brito and Asis Martinez, CIRM Bridges interns from CSUSB, to the lab!
12/11/18 Congratulations to Hanmin Wang for successfully defending his thesis proposal!
10/17/18 We bid farewell to Nozomi Hojo, who is moving on to a position at Riken Quantitative Biology Center, Osaka. We already miss you, Nozomi!
10/12/18 Congratulations to Hanmin Wang for passing his qualifying exam!
10/3/18 Congratulations to Hanmin Wang for the acceptance of his Developmental Dynamics review paper: "Epithelial-mesenchymal transition and cancer stem cells: at the crossroads of differentiation and dedifferentiation"
9/24/18 We welcome rotation student Tise Suzuki back to the lab!
7/9/18 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev for successfully defending his Dissertation Proposal!
6/11/18 We welcome Nicolas Belliard, SURF student from Walla Walla University, to the lab!
6/7/18 We welcome Christine Castañon, UTP student from UCLA, back to the lab!
5/23/18 Congratulations to Nozomi Hojo and Alyse Huisken for the acceptance of their Scientific Reports paper: "Snail knockdown reverses stemness and inhibits tumour growth in ovarian cancer"!
5/18/18 Congratulations to Sang Nguyen for receiving the Leopold Schepp Foundation Scholarship!
3/6/18 Congratulations to Sang Nguyen for receiving the "Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award" for his Nature Medicine paper by the Clinical Research Forum!
1/16/18 The lab (with co-PI Dr. Ioffe) has been awarded a GCAT for “Improving genetic testing rates to enable targeted therapy: Novel combination therapy targeting Snail and PARP for advanced ovarian cancer in Hispanic women! In collaboration with Dr. Hong (Gyn/Onc), Dr. Montgomery (Behavioral Health), Dr. Clarke (Primary Care)
12/1/17 The lab has been awarded a CIRM Inception grant for “Targeting cancer stem cells with nanoparticle RNAi delivery to prevent recurrence and metastasis of ovarian cancer”! In collaboration with Carlotta Glackin, City of Hope, and Jeff Zink, UCLA
11/20/17 Congratulations to Hanmin Wang for his second place poster award at the Inland Empire Stem Cell Symposium!
11/20/17 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev for his second place poster award at the Inland Empire Stem Cell Symposium!
11/2/17 Congratulations to Nozomi Hojo, Hanmin Wang, and Evgeny Chirshev on their Flash Presentations at the LLU Basic Sciences Symposium!
10/20/17 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev for his third place poster award at the Southern California Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student Symposium!
9/27/17 Congratulations to Sang Nguyen for receiving the Victor Grifols Roura Scholarship, National Medical Fellowships!
8/4/17 Congratulations to Jessica Reyes on her selection as a Flash presenter at the CHDMM Symposium!
6/12/17 We welcome Christine Castanon, UTP student from UCLA, back to the lab!
6/12/17 We welcome Jessica Reyes, SURF student from UCLA, to the lab!
6/1/17 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev for receiving a scholarship to the Jackson Labs WORKSHOP ON TECHNIQUES IN MODELING HUMAN CANCER IN MICE
5/24/17 We welcome Anthony Nguyen to the lab!
4/10/17 We welcome Mindy Lopez, CIRM Bridges intern from CSUSB, to the lab!
3/10/17 Congratulations to Sang Nguyen for receiving the AMA Foundation Seed Grant!
1/1/17 We welcome Linda Sanderman, master’s student at CSUSB, to the lab!
9/1/16 We welcome Sang Nguyen, medical student at UCR, to the lab!
8/11/16 Congratulations to Hanmin Wang on his scholarship to the Marine Biological Laboratory Course, “Frontiers in Stem Cells and Regeneration”!
8/3/16 Congratulations to Christine Castañon on her selection as a Flash presenter at the CHDMM Symposium!
6/14/16 We welcome Christine Castañon to the lab in the ABC Summer program!
6/13/16 We welcome Holly Huang, Macpherson Scholar, to the lab!
6/13/16 We welcome Tise Suzuki, SURF student from Southern University, to the lab!
5/19/16 Congratulations to Maricela Gallardo for winning first prize at the “Meeting of the Minds” at CSUSB!
5/17/16 Congratulations to Alyse Huisken-Hill for successfully defending her masters thesis!
4/18/16 We welcome postdoctoral fellow Nozomi Hojo (Osaka University) to the lab!
4/15/16 We are happy to announce that Evgeny Chirshev has joined the lab!
4/11/16 We welcome CIRM Bridges interns Maricela Gallardo and Brian Wilkinson to the lab!
3/28/16 We welcome rotation student Greisha Ortiz to the lab!
1/8/16: The lab received a Faculty Interdisciplinary Translational Research Grant from the LLU School of Dentistry! See announcement here.
1/5/16: We welcome rotation student Evgeny Chirshev to the lab!
11/4/15: Congratulations to Alyse Huisken for winning third place in the IESCC Symposium Poster session!
9/5/15: We welcome graduate student Hanmin Wang to the lab!
12/20/14: The lab received a Grant to Promote Collaboration and Translation from the LLU School of Medicine! See announcement here.
1/19/22 Congratulations to Aaron Keniston for successfully defending his masters thesis proposal!
12/6/21 The lab (with co-PI Dr. Yevgeniya Ioffe) has been awarded a GCAT for "Reversing Chemoresistance in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer"!
10/6/21 Goodbye to Dr. Hanmin Wang, who is starting a postdoctoral fellowship at City of Hope. We will miss you!
10/13/21 We welcome Ashlyn Bartlett, rotating first year PhD student, to the lab!
9/8/21 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev on the acceptance of his Cancers manuscript: "Let-7i Reduces Aggressive Phenotype and Induces BRCAness in Ovarian Cancer Cells"! Thanks to all coauthors: Tise Suzuki, Hanmin Wang, Anthony Nguyen, Nozomi Hojo, Linda Sanderman, Saied Mirshahidi, Yevgeniya Ioffe.
8/19/21 Congratulations to Tise Suzuki for successfully defending her thesis proposal!
8/12/21 We welcome Yeonkyu David Jung to the lab!
6/15/21 We welcome Giselle Magaña to the lab in the ABC summer program!
6/11/21 We welcome Ashley Antonissen, CIRM Bridges intern and Masters student, to the lab!
6/8/21 We welcome Kourtney Heald, Redlands University Summer Undergraduate Research Program, to the lab!
5/21/21 Congratulations to Dr. Hanmin Wang on defending his PhD defense! Title: The Role of the Snail/let-7 Axis in Stemness Induction in Distinct Subtypes of Ovarian Cancer: The Search for Cancer Stem Cell Targeting Strategies
4/16/21 Congratulations to Casey Curow on his successful defense of his honors thesis: "Snail-mediated chemoresistance in ovarian cancer"
3/16/21 Congratulations to Hanmin Wang for the acceptance of his Cancers manuscript: The epithelial-mesenchymal transcription factor SNAI1 represses transcription of the tumor suppressor miRNA let-7 in cancer"! Thanks to all coauthors: Evgeny Chirshev, Nozomi Hojo, Tise Suzuki, Antonella Bertucci, Michael Pierce, Christopher Perry, Ruining Wang, Jeffrey Zink, Carlotta Glackin, Yevgeniya J. Ioffe.
1/25/21 We welcome Aaron Keniston, CIRM Bridges Masters student, to the lab!
1/25/21 We welcome Alondra Enciso, CIRM Bridges student from CSUSB, to the lab!
1/7/21 We welcome Pedro Ochoa, rotating first year PhD student, to the lab!
10/29/20 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev for winning first place in the poster session at LLU Basic Sciences / IESCC Symposium!
10/6/20 We welcome Ann Morcos, rotating first year PhD student, to the lab!
7/27/20 We welcome Aries Torres, CIRM Bridges student from CSUSB, to the lab!
6/22/20 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev for the acceptance of his Molecular Oncology manuscript: "Epithelial/mesenchymal heterogeneity of high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma samples correlates with miRNA let-7 levels and predicts tumor growth and metastasis"! This is a team effort with contributions from Nozomi Hojo, Antonella Bertucci, Linda Sanderman, Anthony Nguyen, Hanmin Wang, Tise Suzuki, Emmanuel Brito, Christine Castañón, and Yevgeniya Ioffe. Thanks also to our collaborators!
6/15/20 We welcome Casey Curow, Redlands University Summer Undergraduate Research Program, to the lab!
6/2/20 Congratulations to Linda Sanderman for successfully defending her masters thesis!
6/1/20 We welcome Ryan Fuller, PhD student, to the lab!
5/27/20 Congratulations to Sang Nguyen on his graduation from UCR Medical School!
1/14/20 We welcome Michael Pierce, CIRM Bridges student from CSUSB, to the lab!
1/1/20 The lab (with co-PI Dr. Jerry Slater) has been awarded a GCAT for “Cancer cell aggressiveness caused by conventional vs. proton radiation"! In collaboration with Dr. Vazquez (Radiation Medicine), Dr. Bertucci (Radiation Medicine / Basic Sciences)
8/16/19 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev for the acceptance of his Clinical and Translational Medicine review: "Let-7 as biomarker, prognostic indicator, and therapy for precision medicine in cancer"
8/2/19 Congratulations to Linda Sanderman, CSUSB masters student, for successfully defending her thesis proposal!
8/1/19 We wish Evgeny Chirshev all the best as he begins medical school!
6/12/19 We welcome Gabriel Diaz to the lab in the ABC summer program!
6/12/19 We welcome Taylor Bothwell, SURF student from Pacific Union College, to the lab!
3/19/19 We are happy to announce that Tise Suzuki has joined the lab!
1/28/19 We welcome Emmanuel Brito and Asis Martinez, CIRM Bridges interns from CSUSB, to the lab!
12/11/18 Congratulations to Hanmin Wang for successfully defending his thesis proposal!
10/17/18 We bid farewell to Nozomi Hojo, who is moving on to a position at Riken Quantitative Biology Center, Osaka. We already miss you, Nozomi!
10/12/18 Congratulations to Hanmin Wang for passing his qualifying exam!
10/3/18 Congratulations to Hanmin Wang for the acceptance of his Developmental Dynamics review paper: "Epithelial-mesenchymal transition and cancer stem cells: at the crossroads of differentiation and dedifferentiation"
9/24/18 We welcome rotation student Tise Suzuki back to the lab!
7/9/18 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev for successfully defending his Dissertation Proposal!
6/11/18 We welcome Nicolas Belliard, SURF student from Walla Walla University, to the lab!
6/7/18 We welcome Christine Castañon, UTP student from UCLA, back to the lab!
5/23/18 Congratulations to Nozomi Hojo and Alyse Huisken for the acceptance of their Scientific Reports paper: "Snail knockdown reverses stemness and inhibits tumour growth in ovarian cancer"!
5/18/18 Congratulations to Sang Nguyen for receiving the Leopold Schepp Foundation Scholarship!
3/6/18 Congratulations to Sang Nguyen for receiving the "Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award" for his Nature Medicine paper by the Clinical Research Forum!
1/16/18 The lab (with co-PI Dr. Ioffe) has been awarded a GCAT for “Improving genetic testing rates to enable targeted therapy: Novel combination therapy targeting Snail and PARP for advanced ovarian cancer in Hispanic women! In collaboration with Dr. Hong (Gyn/Onc), Dr. Montgomery (Behavioral Health), Dr. Clarke (Primary Care)
12/1/17 The lab has been awarded a CIRM Inception grant for “Targeting cancer stem cells with nanoparticle RNAi delivery to prevent recurrence and metastasis of ovarian cancer”! In collaboration with Carlotta Glackin, City of Hope, and Jeff Zink, UCLA
11/20/17 Congratulations to Hanmin Wang for his second place poster award at the Inland Empire Stem Cell Symposium!
11/20/17 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev for his second place poster award at the Inland Empire Stem Cell Symposium!
11/2/17 Congratulations to Nozomi Hojo, Hanmin Wang, and Evgeny Chirshev on their Flash Presentations at the LLU Basic Sciences Symposium!
10/20/17 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev for his third place poster award at the Southern California Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student Symposium!
9/27/17 Congratulations to Sang Nguyen for receiving the Victor Grifols Roura Scholarship, National Medical Fellowships!
8/4/17 Congratulations to Jessica Reyes on her selection as a Flash presenter at the CHDMM Symposium!
6/12/17 We welcome Christine Castanon, UTP student from UCLA, back to the lab!
6/12/17 We welcome Jessica Reyes, SURF student from UCLA, to the lab!
6/1/17 Congratulations to Evgeny Chirshev for receiving a scholarship to the Jackson Labs WORKSHOP ON TECHNIQUES IN MODELING HUMAN CANCER IN MICE
5/24/17 We welcome Anthony Nguyen to the lab!
4/10/17 We welcome Mindy Lopez, CIRM Bridges intern from CSUSB, to the lab!
3/10/17 Congratulations to Sang Nguyen for receiving the AMA Foundation Seed Grant!
1/1/17 We welcome Linda Sanderman, master’s student at CSUSB, to the lab!
9/1/16 We welcome Sang Nguyen, medical student at UCR, to the lab!
8/11/16 Congratulations to Hanmin Wang on his scholarship to the Marine Biological Laboratory Course, “Frontiers in Stem Cells and Regeneration”!
8/3/16 Congratulations to Christine Castañon on her selection as a Flash presenter at the CHDMM Symposium!
6/14/16 We welcome Christine Castañon to the lab in the ABC Summer program!
6/13/16 We welcome Holly Huang, Macpherson Scholar, to the lab!
6/13/16 We welcome Tise Suzuki, SURF student from Southern University, to the lab!
5/19/16 Congratulations to Maricela Gallardo for winning first prize at the “Meeting of the Minds” at CSUSB!
5/17/16 Congratulations to Alyse Huisken-Hill for successfully defending her masters thesis!
4/18/16 We welcome postdoctoral fellow Nozomi Hojo (Osaka University) to the lab!
4/15/16 We are happy to announce that Evgeny Chirshev has joined the lab!
4/11/16 We welcome CIRM Bridges interns Maricela Gallardo and Brian Wilkinson to the lab!
3/28/16 We welcome rotation student Greisha Ortiz to the lab!
1/8/16: The lab received a Faculty Interdisciplinary Translational Research Grant from the LLU School of Dentistry! See announcement here.
1/5/16: We welcome rotation student Evgeny Chirshev to the lab!
11/4/15: Congratulations to Alyse Huisken for winning third place in the IESCC Symposium Poster session!
9/5/15: We welcome graduate student Hanmin Wang to the lab!
12/20/14: The lab received a Grant to Promote Collaboration and Translation from the LLU School of Medicine! See announcement here.
