Stephanie was invited to deliver a keynote speech on liver cancer stem cells and a pre-conference workshop on pre-clinical cancer models for improved precision medicine at the 4th Pan-Asian Biomedical Science Conference that was held in Danang Vietnam from 5-7 December 2018. Thank you for the invite!
Stephanie presented the team’s work on liver cancer stemness as an invited speaker at the 2018 Beijing Liver Cancer International Conference that was held at Peking University in Beijing, China from 2-4 November 2018.
November 12 2018
Translating our knowledge to the public
Our article in HK01 – 揭開神秘殺手面紗 治療癌症新領域
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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!
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.
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 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
Congrats to Natalie Li on completing her MPhil degree. All the best to you in your future endeavours!
August 26 2018
Translating our knowledge to the public
Our article in Now.com (Life) – 〈好Heal〉拆解癌症迷思
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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!
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