Chen Lab News @UChicago

2025

Congrats to Dr. Zhicheng Xie on receiving 2025 UCCCC Sigal Fellowship in Immuno-oncology!

Congrats to Dr. Zhicheng Xie on receiving NCI Early-Stage K99/R00 Award!

Congrats to Freya Zhang on receiving her PhD degree and getting her first-author paper accepted by Cell Reports Medicine!

2024

Congrats to Freya Zhang on receiving NCI F31 Award!

Congrats to Chufan Cai on receiving her PhD degree and starting a Postdoctoral Fellow position in Dr. Bruce Spiegelman's lab in Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School!

Congratulations to Dr. Jiayi Tu on receiving the 2024 Janet Rowley Research Day Best Poster Award (Basic Science)!

2023

Congrats to Dr. Hao Fan on his Nature paper: 

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https://news.uchicago.edu/story/study-nutrient-found-meat-and-dairy-improves-immune-response-cancer;

https://biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/tva-nutrient-cancer-immunity;

 https://www.newsweek.com/surprising-foods-nutrients-immune-response-cancer-1846099; 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12780111/beef-dairy-improves-immune-response-cancer.html; 

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2404225-nutrient-found-in-beef-and-milk-shows-promise-against-several-cancers/; 

https://nypost.com/2023/11/22/lifestyle/eating-red-meat-and-dairy-could-help-fight-cancer-new-study/  

Congratulations to Chufan Cai for receiving the Margaret Benjamin Award!

2022

2021

Congrats to Dr. Dong Chen and Dr. Rukang Zhang on their Mol Cell paper: https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/cancer-articles/acute-myeloid-leukemia-walks-a-fine-line-between-growth-and-cell-death