Dr. Ren from the UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Surgery and Dr. Chandrani Sarkar from the Mitchell Cancer Institute, University of South Alabama have been selected as the new member of Medical Advisory Council in the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama to support cutting-edge breast cancer research initiatives across the state of Alabama.
REN LAB has been awarded the Transformational Project Award from the American Heart Association to study arteriolar angiogenesis in Alzheimer’s disease.
Pilot Project in Arteriolar Angiogenesis and Cancer Cell Stemness. This internal grant awarded by the UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center through Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama will be used to collect preliminary data to support the premise that the growth of small blood vessels (arterioles) in tumors contributes to the spread of cancer cells to other organs.
Welcome Sean, who joins the lab with the support of the SURE program.
Welcome Sarai, who joins the lab with a Physician Scientist Summer Research Fellowship.
Congratulations to the lab for having our research in vascular niches and cancer stem cells for lung metastasis selected as a late-breaking research poster presentation by AACR Annual Meeting 2023 in Orlando.
Congratulations to Hailey Guo. She was awarded a PhD degree in biomedical engineering and joined a prestigious biotech company in 2022.
Congratulations to Atul Kumar for presenting lab work at the 2022 O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center Research Retreat.
Research by Dr. Hailey Guo and Dr. Yinan Jiang, et al. has been published in Cells 2022. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dr. Yinan Jiang, Hailey Guo, and Dr. Jinjin Hao et al., whose research was selected as a featured discovery by the UAB Heersink School of Medicine. See links for the interview with Dr. Ren and Scientific News.
https://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/latest/item/2436-development-of-arteriolar-niche
Research by Dr. Yinan Jiang, Hailey Guo, and Dr. Jinjin Hao et al. has been published in Communications Biology (Nature) 2021. Congratulations!
