Congrats to Dr. Steve Luk and Ms. Natalie Li on obtaining their PhD and MPhil degrees, respectively. Your hard work paid off. Well done!!
And thank you to both for the thoughtful and sumptuous dinner!
News
Stem Cell & Cancer Symposium 2018 at University of Malaya
Thanks to Selvee for the kind invite, Stephanie presented the lab’s work on liver cancer stemness at the Stem Cell & Cancer Symposium 2018 held at University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 17-18 October 2018.
Congrats to Eric on his EACR Bursary!
Our post-doc Eric Wong was awarded one of five European Association for Cancer Research (EACR)-Worldwide Cancer Research Meeting Bursaries and presented his work at the EACR – Mechanisms to Therapies: Innovations in Cancer Metabolism meeting that was held in Bilbao, Spain from 9-11 October 2018.
Our new paper in Cell Reports!
Our work on arginine methylation via PRMT6 in mediating liver cancer stemness is published in this week’s issue of Cell Reports. Read all about it!
Chan LH*, Zhou L*, Ng KY*, Wong TL*, Lee TK, Sharma R, Loong JH, Ching YP, Yuan YF, Xie D, Lo CM, Man K, Artegiani B, Clevers H, Yan HH, Leung SY, Richard S, Guan XY, Huen MS, Ma S. PRMT6 regulates RAS/RAF binding and MEK/ERK-mediated cancer stemness activities in hepatocellular carcinoma through CRAF methylation. Cell Rep 2018; 25:690-701. (*equal contribution)
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(18)31498-0
Cancer: myths, misconception and truths
August 26 2018
Article in Now.com (Life) – 〈好Heal〉拆解癌症迷思
Part of the article shown below.
Full version can be found here.
New Academic Year 2018/19
This year, we welcome Matthew (our new PhD student) as well as Marco and Alan (our BBMS FYP students) to the team. Best of luck with your studies ahead!
TBRS Symposium: Gastric Cancer Genomics and Beyond
August 28 2018 – Theme Based Research Scheme (TBRS) Symposium: Gastric Cancer Genomics and Beyond – Organoids, Genomics and Cell Biology
Stephanie presented the team’s latest work on use of organoids for the studies of gastric and liver cancer biology.
