Jason Sicklick named co-leader of the Structural and Functional Genomics Research Program at UCSD Moores

Healthy stem cells could turn into oral cancer, study finds

Researchers at University of California San Diego have discovered how healthy stem cells are transformed into cancer stem cells in the earliest stages of the disease. The study was published in Nature Communications.

February 07, 2025

Vol.51 No.05

Obituary

Felix Feng, GU cancer researcher who made fundamental discoveries in genomics, dies at 48

The University of California, San Francisco and global oncology communities mourn the death of Felix Y. Feng, MD, a radiation oncologist and a leading figure in genitourinary cancer research. A professor of radiation oncology, urology and medicine, and vice chair of translational research at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Feng died from cancer on Dec.10, 2024. He was 48.

Felix Feng: “When a symposium is named after you, you can pretty much just wax poetic up on stage.”
Keynote address at The Feng Symposium in May 2024

On May 18, 2024, Felix Feng, a leader in genitourinary cancer research, gave the keynote address at the inaugural symposium that bears his name.

January 24, 2025

Vol.51 No.03

Clinical Roundup

UCSD researchers identify enzyme that promotes pancreatic tumor growth and spread

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that an enzyme called MICAL2 promotes tumor growth and spread in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas, the most common form of pancreatic cancer.

January 10, 2025

Vol.51 No.01

The Human Tumor Atlas Network charts the roadmap for advancing spatial omics

The NCI Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) has published a cluster of papers intended to advance the framework of spatial omics, the science of profiling morphological and molecular features of human cancers in two and three dimensions.

John Ashton named associate director for shared resources at Wilmot Cancer Institute

John M. Ashton, associate professor in the department of biomedical genetics, has been promoted from assistant director to associate director of shared resources at the University of Rochester’s Wilmot Cancer Institute.

September 13, 2024

Vol.50 No.34

Jason Sicklick named co-leader of the Structural and Functional Genomics Research Program at UCSD Moores

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Jason Sicklick named co-leader of the Structural and Functional Genomics Research Program at UCSD Moores

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Felix Feng, GU cancer researcher who made fundamental discoveries in genomics, dies at 48

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UCSD researchers identify enzyme that promotes pancreatic tumor growth and spread

The Human Tumor Atlas Network charts the roadmap for advancing spatial omics

John Ashton named associate director for shared resources at Wilmot Cancer Institute

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Felix Feng: “When a symposium is named after you, you can pretty much just wax poetic up on stage.”
Keynote address at The Feng Symposium in May 2024