10/29/19: Congrats to Tony on his paper on myeloma signaling and new precision medicine strategies new published at Blood Advances!
10/8/19: Congrats to Priya on her paper published at Leukemia! Can't wait to get this concept to clinical trial to overcome daratumumab resistance.
9/13/19 - we wish Ian the best of luck as he goes off to start graduate school at Stanford!
9/10/19 - congrats to Priya for receiving the Young Investigator Award at the International Myeloma Workshop meeting, for her work on reversing daratumumab resistance through treatment with Azacytidine!
8/1/19 - we are excited to welcome our new Jr Specialists to the group, Marti Hale and Olivia Gugliemini!
7/1/19 - congrats to Kamal for receiving the prestigious Michelson Foundation and Human Vaccine Project Prize! This grant will support his work on developing new chemical biology-proteomic approaches to discover an entirely new class of targets for cancer immunotherapy. Check out the YouTube video here.
6/1/19 - we would like to thank the Pancreas Cancer Program of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center for supporting our proposal to develop new technologies for surface proteomics on fine needle aspiration biopsies! In collaboration with our fanstatic UCSF cytopathologists Dianna Ng and Ron Balassanian.
4/1/19 - congrats to Jeff for being one of the first recipients of the StARR fellowship at UCSF, supporting his work on identifying new diagnostic approaches to Chagas disease!
2/28/19 - congrats to Tony for posting his preprint at BioRxiv detailing an integrated approach to identifying "hidden signaling" in myeloma, using a combination of phosphoproteomics and computational analysis of patient transcriptome data!
2/14/19 - congrats to CP resident Jacob Spector, for the manuscript describing his decision support tool for cytogenomic microarray interpretation, ClinTAD, published at the Journal of Human Genetics!
2/1/19 - we would like to thank the Lymphoma Program of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center for supporting our proposal to develop new immunotherapies for Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma!
12/31/18 - congrats to Hector for posting his preprint at BioRxiv on identifying splicing modulation as part of the mechanism of action of proteasome inhibitors, and demonstrating the myeloma is specifically sensitive to splicing inhibition as a new therapeutic strategy!
9/15/18 - we are happy to welcome our new Post-doc, Kamal Mandal!
8/20/18 - we are happy to welcome our new Post-doc, Prabhakar Bastola!
7/15/18 - we are happy to welcome our new Jr Specialist, Vishesh Sarin!
7/1/18 - Congrats to Priya for her review on new approaches to myeloma therapy, published in Trends in Cancer as the cover article!
7/1/18 - Congrats to Christine for her paper published in Haematologica, on repurposing tofacitinib as a myeloma therapeutic!
2/22/18 — We thank the NCI for supporting us with an R01 to explore the intersection between protein homeostasis and splicing in myeloma!
9/25/17 — We are happy to welcome Catherine Tan for her BMS rotation!
8/17/17 — We are happy to welcome our new Junior Specialist, Nora Lam!
7/7/17 — We wish Christine luck in starting graduate school at Johns Hopkins!
7/1/17 — We thank the UCSF Program in Breakthrough Biomedical Research for supporting our collaborative project with the Blelloch lab!
6/28/17 — Congrats to Hector, his paper on measuring protein synthesis by pulsed-SILAC proteomics and ribosome profiling, in collaboration with Yun Song's lab, was published in Cell Systems! Thanks to Neil Wiita for excellent cover art.
6/18/17 — We are happy to welcome our new Junior Specialist in the MMTI Lab, Ian Ferguson!
6/10/17 — We wish Shubhang luck in starting medical school at the Mayo Clinic Arizona!
5/28/17 — Check out Christine's manuscript on drug repurposing in myeloma posted at BioRxiv!
5/17/17 — We are happy to welcome our new Associate Specialist in the MMTI Lab, Priya Choudhry!
4/10/17 — We are happy to welcome our new Research Associate in the MMTI Lab, Margarette Mariano!
3/6/17 — We are happy to welcome our new Junior Specialist in the MMTI Lab, Shubhang Bhatt!
2/20/17 — We thank the Gabrielle's Angels Foundation for Cancer Research for supporting our group with a Research Grant!
1/6/17 — Congrats to Hui on her new Scientist position at GenEdit! We wish her luck in making CRISPR therapeutics a reality.
1/3/17 — We are happy to welcome our new Post-doc, Neha Paranjape!
12/15/16 — We thank the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation for supporting our group with a Translational Network Research Award!
11/15/16 — Check out Hector's new paper, a collaboration with Yun Song's group, posted at BioRxiv!
10/4/16 — We thank the NIH Common Fund for the supporting our group with the NIH Director's New Innovator Award!
8/15/16 — We are happy to welcome our new Junior Specialist, Tony Lin!
7/1/16 — We thank the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for supporting our group with the Clinical Scientist Development Award!
2/16/16 — We are happy to welcome our new Post-Doc, Sami Tuomivaara!
10/3/15 — We are happy to welcome our new Post-Doc in the MMTI Lab, Hui Liu!
9/3/15 — We are happy to welcome our new Junior Specialist in the MMTI Lab, Christine Lam!
6/10/15 — We are excited to be part of the UCSF MMTI team, as the Stephen and Nancy Grand Multiple Myeloma Translational Initiative Laboratory joins our group.
2/4/15 — We are happy to welcome our new Post-Doc, Matt Nix!
1/27/15 — We thank the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation for supporting our group with the Dale F. Frey Breakthrough Award.