Yuji is awarded a competitive overseas research fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Congrats Yuji!
Lab News
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Yuji is awarded a JSPS fellowship
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Kevin and Alex present on their work at EMBL
Greetings from Heidelberg at the EMBL symposium: Defining and defeating metastasis conference!
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Farewell to Valeria!
Farewell to Valeria Castellanos, our fantastic SURP summer student!
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Andie successfully defends her dissertation
Andie successfully defends her dissertation. Congrats Andie and an end of an era!
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Welcome Justin, our new MCB student
Justin Hui joins the lab as a full-time graduate student. Welcome Justin!
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Lab receives Medical Research Grant from the Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation
The Cheung lab receives a 3-year grant from the Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation to define intercellular signals utilized by triple negative breast cancer metastases. With local collaborators Pete Nelson, Nancy Davidson, and Paul Lampe, this project will develop targeted therapy approaches for blocking tumor cell cooperation important for therapy resistance and visceral metastasis.
https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2024/03/cheung-kleberg-cancer-cooperation.html
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Welcome Nicole and farewell Saki!
Farewell to Saki our awesome lab tech on loan from Daiichi Sankyo, and welcome Nicole our new lab tech!
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Ami’s tumor dissemination paper comes out in PNAS!
Ami’s metastasis paper comes out in PNAS today. In this study, we asked where tumor cell dissemination from. We thought the action would be at the tumor’s edge. But instead we find a role for cancer cells in the necrotic core: zones of intense cell death within tumors. Along the way, we identify a tumor-secreted protein expressed deep inside the tumor involved in regulating necrosis, CTC dissemination and metastasis. Read the paper to find out more.
Link to Hutch Center News article.
Link to Charles River Webinar on in vivo modeling of breast tumor dissemination.
Link to Hutch Science Spotlight. Thank you to David Sokolov for writing this piece!
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Lab receives Kuni Foundation Grant
The Cheung lab receives a 3-year grant from the Kuni Foundation to develop a therapeutic antibody to prevent necrosis, metastatic dissemination, and therapy resistance. Our goal for this project is to develop a therapeutic antibody that will be advanced to early phase clinical trial. We are grateful to the Kuni Foundation for their generous support!
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Beth is awarded an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
Beth is awarded a competitive 2-year fellowship from the American Cancer Society. Congrats Beth!
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The Cheung lab is awarded an Evergreen Fund Beyond Pilot Award
The Cheung lab is awarded a competitive Beyond Pilot Award from the Hutch Evergreen Fund to advance the commercialization potential of our technology for therapeutic targeting of necrosis. Thank you Evergreen Fund for supporting our research!
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Brad and Andie present their work at SABCS 2022
Brad, Andie, and Kevin travel to Texas to learn more about latest in breast cancer research at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium and to present their work on collective invasion and signaling.
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Welcome Yuji!
Yuji Kumagai is a new postdoctoral fellow in the lab. He received his PhD from Hokkaido University in Japan. In the Cheung lab, he will work on the role of collective signaling in therapy resistance.
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Ami and Andie present their work at the AACR Special Conference on Cancer Metastasis 2022
Ami and Andie travel down to Portland to present their work at the AACR Special Conference on Cancer Metastasis. Also thank you to the Chen Hu Endowment for providing Ami a travel award to attend this conference!
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Kevin presents on the lab’s work at PCF 2022
Kevin is invited to the Prostate Cancer Foundation to present on the lab’s work on collective signaling and proteomics at the scientific session “Lessons Learned From Other Cancers.” Thanks for the invitation!
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Ami and Andie’s review paper is published in Annual Reviews
Congrats to Ami Yamamoto and Andie Doak for publishing our comprehensive review paper on collective tumor migration and metastasis in Annual Reviews of Pathology. Check out the review paper here.
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Welcome, Alex and Jordan!
Alex and Jordan are first year students in the M3D graduate program at the University of Washington, and will be rotating with us this Fall Quarter.
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Welcome Jimin!
Jimin Park is an undergraduate student in her junior year at UW. She joins the lab this year as an undergraduate research assistant in the laboratory. Welcome!
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Ami awarded an F31
Congratulations to Ami who was awarded a NRSA F31 grant!