Congratulations to Salma Youssef on successfully completing her final public oral and earning her PhD! Salma will now return to Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School to complete her MD, where she will bring her research expertise in cancer and the microbiome to her clinical training. We are incredibly proud of her accomplishment and…

The Kang Lab headed to KPOT for some hotpot and K-BBQ to honor the graduation of our three incredible undergraduate seniors Gabriel, Ian, and Gabriela! It's been a joy watching them grow as scientists, and we couldn't be prouder of everything they've accomplished during their time in the lab. Gabriel will attend Yale University to pursue his…

Congratulations to Dr. Cao Fang on beginning her postdoctoral fellowship at Westlake University in Hangzhou, China! Cao first joined the Kang Lab as a summer rotational undergraduate student and went on to earn her PhD here, culminating in back to back publications in iScience and Nature Immunology this past year. We could not be prouder to…

Congratulations to Dr. Eunmi Lee on her new faculty position as Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine at Yeungnam University in Gyeongsan City, South Korea! After her postdoctoral fellowship in the Kang Lab, Eunmi is taking her expertise in breast cancer tumorigenesis and mammary gland macrophage biology to the next generation…

Excited energy in the Kang Lab this week as many of our members laced up for the Princeton Half Marathon! For the second year in a row, our team brought the same grit and determination we bring to the bench each day to the roads of Princeton. Led by IRONMAN PI Dr. Yibin Kang, the Kang Lab showed up and showed out again this year! We are so…

In a new study published in Cell, Yibin Kang and postdoctoral researcher Yujiao Han led a team that uncovered how metastatic breast cancer cells hijack specialized macrophages in the bone marrow known as erythroblast island (EBI) macrophages. These cells normally play a critical role in recycling iron for red blood cell production…

 Most people know our PI Dr. Yibin Kang for his groundbreaking cancer research, but outside the lab, he recently completed another IRONMAN triathlon. Dr. Kang leverages the same discipline, patience, precision, and a willingness to keep working which guides our lab's work to prepare for his IRONMAN training, noting "Research is a long…

Congratulations to our Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Hirak Sarkar on joining Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor in the College of Connected Computing and the Center for Computational Systems Biology! Before heading to Nashville, Hirak was a Ludwig Scholar and Postdoctoral fellow in the Kang and Raphael labs. In our lab he played a…

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…