2023
November 2, 2023
Xinyue has been selected to receive a 2023 ASH Abstract Achievement Award and to give an oral presentation of her work at ASH 2023 Annual Meeting in San Diego. Congratulations!
October 16, 2023
Durga Selvam (P3 theme) joined us as a Rotating Graduate Student. Welcome!
May 25, 2023
Sajesan has been awarded the 2023 ASH Graduate Hematology Award from the American Society of Hematology. Congratulations! A big thank you to the American Society of Hematology for supporting our research!
May 17, 2023
Rui has been awarded the junior faculty 2023 Dean’s Excellence Award in Research. Congratulations!
January 26, 2023
Rui is named a James A. Pittman Jr., M.D., Scholar by UAB Heersink School of Medicine. Congratulations!
January 9, 2023
Neha Srinivas joined our lab as our very first master student. Welcome! Neha is a student in the UAB Multidisciplinary Biomedical Science Program.
January 3, 2023
Ayushi Mandloi (CANB theme) joined us as a Rotating Graduate Student. Welcome!
2022
October 12, 2022
Xinyue’s paper on UTX and MLL-leukemia drug response was accepted for publication in Leukemia. Congratulations!
September 14, 2022
Sajesan gives an update of his work on cis-regulatory elements in AML at the UAB Leukemia Group Meeting. Fantastic Job!
August 19, 2022
Xinyue’s editorial entitled "HOXA9/MEIS1 targets in leukemia: reinforced signaling networks and therapeutic opportunities" was accepted for publication in Haematologica. Congratulations!
August 5, 2022
Sajesan’s paper (with Zhou lab) on cardiac reprogramming was accepted in Circulation. Congratulations!
July 18, 2022
Lisa joined us as a Visiting Scientist. Welcome!
June 6, 2022
Mary Doamekpor (GGB theme) joined us as a Rotating Graduate Student. Welcome!
April 27, 2022
Sajesan has been selected for the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Statistical Analysis of Genome Scale Data course. Congratulations!
April 5, 2022
Rui is named an American Cancer Society Research Scholar! Congratulations! Thank you American Cancer Society for supporting our work!
Mar 28, 2022
Virginia joined our lab as a Lab Manager and Researcher III. Welcome!
Mar 15, 2022
Emma has been selected for the 2022 UAB Summer Research Academy program for her summary research. Congratulations!
Mar 10, 2022
As part of a team, we are thrilled to receive the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research Endeavor Award! So grateful for the support and the opportunity to work with such a fantastic group with Rob@UAB, Stan@Fred Huntch, and Brent@Vanderbilt!
Jan 17, 2022
Emma joined our lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome!
Jan 12, 2022
Pengcheng and Xinyue have both received offers from UAB Graduate School. What a huge success for them! Congratulations and we are so happy of you!
2021
Dec 20, 2021
We received the our first NIH grant from the National Cancer Institute for a five-year support of our research on understanding transcriptional regulation of AML. Congratulations everyone! A big thank you to the NIH/NCI for supporting our research!
Dec 14, 2021
Our wonderful time at the 2021 ASH Annual Meeting at Atalanta!
Nov 5, 2021
Sajesan’s review “Molecular Regulators of HOXA9 in Acute Myeloid Leukemia” has been accepted for publication in The FEBS Journal. Congratulations!
Nov 3, 2021
Xinyue gives an update of her work on mechanisms of oncogene regulation and epigenetic therapy at the UAB Leukemia Group Meeting. Fantastic Job!
Oct 25, 2021
Vinh Doan (P3 theme) and Rashed Rezwan Parag (CANB theme) joined our lab for their rotations. Welcome!
Sept 8, 2021
Rui received the O’Neal Invests Grant from the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center. Congratulations! A big thank you to the O’Neal Invests program for supporting our research!
Sept 2, 2021
Sajesan Aryal, GBS graduate student from the Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics (GGB) theme is joining the lab for his thesis work! We are very excited to welcome Sajesan back to the lab!
Aug 11, 2021
Lianzhong’s paper “Transcription Factor MEF2D is Required for the Maintenance of MLL-rearranged Acute Myeloid Leukemia” has been accepted for publication in Blood Advances. Congratulations!
June 7, 2021
Caitlin Harvey joined our lab as a Rotating Graduate Student. Welcome!
April 21, 2021
Sajesan Aryal joined our lab as a Rotating Graduate Student. Welcome!
April 14, 2021
Pengcheng gives a talk on transcriptional regulation of AML at the UAB Leukemia Group Meeting. Fantastic Job!
January 13, 2021
Rui received the ASH Scholar Award from the American Society of Hematology. Congratulations! A big thank you to the American Society of Hematology for supporting our research!
2020
November 13, 2020
Stephanie joined our lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome!
November 11, 2020
Xinyue gives a talk on epigenetic therapy for acute leukemia at the UAB Leukemia Group Meeting. Fantastic Job!
October 19, 2020
Spencer joined our lab as a Rotating Graduate Student. Welcome!
October 8, 2020
Rui received the Conquer Cancer Now Grant Award from the Concern Foundation. Congratulations! A big thank you to the Concern Foundation for supporting our research!
September 28, 2020
Hao and Xinyue’s paper “Functional Interrogation of HOXA9 Regulome in MLLr Leukemia via Reporter-based CRISPR/Cas9 screen” is accepted for publication in eLife. Congratulations! All the best to Hao for her new position!
August 31, 2020
Caris joined our lab as a Rotating Graduate Student. Welcome!
August 24, 2020
We received 100 TB project space from the Cheaha Supercomputer for our NGS data storage and processing. Hooray! Should be good for a while. Thank you UAB IT Research Computing for supporting our research!
July 1, 2020
Lianzhong gives a talk on the transcriptional vulnerability of AML at the UAB Leukemia Group Meeting. Fantastic Job!
February 27, 2020
Rui received an ACS-IRG Junior Faculty Development Grant. Congratulations! A big thank you to the ACS-IRG and the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center for supporting our research!
February 19, 2020
Hao gives a talk on the discovery of novel HOXA9 regulators at the UAB Leukemia Group Meeting. Fantastic Job!
February 17, 2020
Xinyue and Pengcheng joined our lab as Research Assistants. Welcome!
Feb 10, 2020
Hao and Lianzhong’s abstracts were selected for the poster session for the 36th Annual Trainee Research Symposium (TRS). Congratulations!
2019
November 8, 2019
Rui received the Mary Ann Harvard Young Investigator Award from the Young Supporters Board of the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center. Congratulations! A big thank you to the Young Supporters Board for supporting our research!
October 9, 2019
Rui is invited to give a talk on “Deciphering Epigenetic and Transcriptional Regulations in Leukemogenesis’ at the UAB Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Seminar Series.
August 15, 2019
Tarun joined our lab as a Rotating Graduate Student. Welcome!
July 23, 2019
Jane gives a poster presentation on “Development of Knock-in Reporter Tools for Monitoring HOXA9 Expression in AML” at the PRSTP Cancer Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia. Fantastic Job!
June 17, 2019
Hao joined our lab as a Visiting Scholar. Welcome!
June 10, 2019
Rui received a New Investigator Award from the Leukemia Research Foundation. Congratulations! A big thank you to the Leukemia Research Foundation for supporting our research!
May 22, 2019
Rui’s paper “A model system for studying the DNMT3A hotspot mutation (DNMT3A R882) demonstrates a causal relationship between its dominant-negative effect and leukemogenesis” is accepted for publication in Cancer Research. Congratulations!
May 5, 2019
Lianzhong joined our lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!
May 1, 2019
Jane received an award from the Partnership Research Summer Training Program (PRSTP) for supporting her summer research. Congratulations!
January 26, 2019
Jane joined our lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome!