Lab News

2013

• 04/2013    Jian Cao's Perspective article entitled "Histone Demethylases Set the Stage for Cancer Metastasis" was published in Science Signaling!
• 04/2013    Qin Yan was awarded a pilot grant from the Yale Cancer Center.
• 03/2013    Molly Gale joined the lab as a rotation student, welcome!
• 02/2013   Qin Yan was awarded an innovative biomedical research grant from Connecticut Department of Public Health.
• 02/2013   Joyce Sayegh's research article entitled "Identification of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Jumonji AT-Rich Interactive Domain 1B (JARID1B) Histone Demethylase by a Sensitive High Throughput Screen" was published in J. Biol. Chem.!
• 02/2013   Qin Yan was awarded a career development award from DoD peer reviewed cancer research program.

2012

• 12/2012    Qin Yan was awarded a development research award from the Yale SPORE in Skin Cancer.
• 06/2012    Sophia Chen joined the lab as a senior undergraduate student, welcome!
• 05/2012    Qin Yan was awarded a pilot grant from the Yale Liver Center.
• 05/2012    Rachel Rines joined the lab as a postgraduate associate, welcome!
• 05/2012    Alfonso Morales joined the lab as a graduate student, welcome!
• 04/2012    Lauren Blair's review paper entitled "Epigenetic Mechanisms in Commonly Occurring Cancers" was published in DNA and Cell biology!
• 03/2012    Jian Cao's review paper entitled "Histone ubiquitination and deubiquitination in transcription, DNA damage response, and cancer" was published in Frontiers in Molecular and Cellular Oncology!

2011

• 11/2011    Alfonso Morales joined the lab as a rotation student, welcome!
• 08/2011    Jian Cao received an AACR Scholar-in-Training Award.
• 07/2011    Research article entitled "The von Hippel–Lindau tumor suppressor protein regulates gene expression and tumor growth through histone demethylase JARID1C" was published in Oncogene.
• 07/2011    Lorenzo Labitigan returned as an undergraduate summer student.
• 07/2011    Abby Leinroth joined the lab as a Yale Discovery to Cure summer student.
• 06/2011   Qin Yan was selected as a CTSA scholar by YCCI.
• 06/2011   Jian Cao's Research article entitled "Loss of the retinoblastoma binding protein 2 (RBP2) histone demethylase suppresses tumorigenesis in mice lacking Rb1 or Men1" was published in PNAS.
• 04/2011    Qin Yan was selected as an Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust Fellow.
• 03/2011    Zongzhi Liu, a bioinformatician, joined the lab as an associate research scientist.
• 03/2011    Qin Yan received a Career Development Award from the Melanoma Research Foundation.
• 03/2011    Lauren Blair's Review paper entitled "Epigenetic Regulation by Lysine Demethylase 5 (KDM5) Enzymes in Cancer" was published in Cancers.

2010

• 11/2010    Qin Yan was awarded a pilot grant from the Yale Cancer Center.
• 10/2010    Qin Yan was awarded a pilot grant from the Yale Small Molecule Discovery Center.
• 08/2010    Joyce Sayegh joined the lab as a postdoc associate.
• 06/2010    Caleb Fischer joined the lab as a rotation student.
• 05/2010    Lorenzo Labitigan joined the lab as an undergraduate summer student.
• 02/2010    Qin Yan's Review paper entitled "Exploiting cellular senescence to treat cancer and circumvent drug resistance" was published in Cancer Biology and Therapy.

2009

• 12/2009    Qin Yan was awarded a Young Investigator Grant from Breast Cancer Alliance.
• 09/2009    Qin Yan was selected as a V Scholar by the V Foundation for Cancer Research.
• 08/2009    Mike Zou joined the lab as a graduate student.
• 07/2009    Christine Phan joined the lab as a Yale Discovery to Cure summer student.
• 07/2009    Jian Cao joined the lab as a postdoc associate.
• 06/2009    Amber Anders joined the lab as an undergraduate summer student.
• 02/2009    Lauren Blair joined the lab as a postdoc associate and helped with lab setup.
• 01/2009    Qin Yan was awarded an American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant.