Qianying Zuo recently joined the Kang Lab as a Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellow. Qianying received her Bachelor's degree from East China University of Science and Technology. She then completed her Ph.D. study on metabolic adaption of liver metastasis with Madak-Erdogan at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Qianying will…
Eunmi Lee and Ziqing Chen, two postdoctoral fellows in the Kang lab, were awarded the NJCCR postdoctoral fellowships.
Eunmi joined the lab in 2019 after completing her BS and MS degrees at Kangwon National University in South Korea and her graduate study at Medical College of Georgina. She is currently studying immune…
Yujiao Han, a postdoctoral fellow at the Kang lab, received the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowship in Biomedical Science, Class of 2022-2024.
The two-year Charles…
Salma Youssef is a student in the Rutgers-Princeton joint MD/PhD student. She recently joined the lab for her Ph.D. student in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton, and will be co-advised by professors Yibin Kang and Mohamed Donia. Salma will work on the exciting new frontier of gut microbiome regulation of cancer metastasis…
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Antoni Celia-Terrassa, a postdoctoral fellow in the Kang laboratory, was awarded the NJCCR post-doctoral fellowships. Dr. Celia-Terrassa plans to evaluate the role of secreted exosomal miRNAs in breast cancer progression and metastasis. Recent studies have implicated secreted exosomes (microvesicles) as a new system of…
Brian Ell defended his Ph.D. thesis on September 30th, and became the seventh student to receive the Ph.D. degree in the Kang Lab.
Congratulations Brian. Well done!
Dr. Heath Smith, a postdoctoral fellow in the Kang lab, was awarded the American Cancer Society fellowship for his proposal to study the role of Metadherin (MTDH) in breast cancer progression. Metahderin was previously identified as a breast cancer metastasis gene, however, its mechanism of function in breast cancer…
Dr. Guangwen Ren (Gary), a postdoctoral fellow in the Kang lab, was awarded the DoD Breast Cancer Postdoctoral Fellowship for his proposal “Metastasis-associated Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Organ-tropic Metastasis of Breast Cancer”. Breast cancer is still a major health threat worldwide because of its high incidence rate and the constant…
The Board of Trustees of Princeton recently approved the promotion of Yibin Kang to Warner-Lambert/Parke- Davis Professor of Molecular Biology, effective July 1st, 2012. Yibin joined the department as Assistant Professor in the fall of 2004 and was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2010 and Professor in 2012.