Jude Masannat, a Graduate Assistant and Ph.D. student in Dr. Yehia Daaka’s Lab, is a recipient of the 2016 Alec Courtelis Award. This Alec Courtelis Award is given annually to three outstanding international graduate students at UF. Jude serves as president of the UF Organization for Graduate Student Advancement and…
Shuang Huang, Ph.D., a Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, received a $200,000 award from the Florida Breast Cancer Foundation for his grant titled “Deterring Breast Cancer Metastasis by Restoring miRNA Processing.” Congratulations Dr. Huang!…
Iqbal Mahmud, a graduate student in Dr. Daiqing Liao’s laboratory, received a $300 student travel award from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) to attend the 64th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics on June 5-9, 2016 in San Antonio, Texas. Congratulations Iqbal! For more…
Alexander Ishov, PhD, an Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, received a $100,000 bridge grant award from the Florida Department of Health Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program for his grant titled “Functions of Histone Variants in Castration-Resistance Prostate Cancer.” Congratulations Dr. Ishov!…
Joseph Black, a MD-PhD graduate student in Dr. Yehia Daaka’s laboratory, recently published a review titled “Feedback regulation of G protein-coupled receptor signaling by GRKs and arrestins” in Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology. To read the full review in Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology click…
Daiqing Liao, PhD, an Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, received a $100,000 bridge grant award from the Florida Department of Health Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program for his grant titled “Target HDAC2 for Treating ER-Positive and Drug-Resistant Breast Cancer.” Congratulations Dr. Liao!…
Daiqing Liao, PhD, an Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, received a $795,236 award from the Florida Department of Health James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program for his grant titled “Pharmacologic inhibition of acetyltransferase CBP/p300 as a new therapeutic approach for breast cancer.” Congratulations…
Yi Qiu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, recently co-authored an article published in the newest issue of Cell Reports titled “HoxBlinc RNA Recruits Set1/MLL Complexes to Activate Hox Gene Expression Patterns and Mesoderm Lineage Development”. Dr. Qiu stated, “In collaboration with Dr. Suming Huang from the…
Shuang Huang, Ph.D., joined the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology as a Professor and Cancer Preeminent faculty on October 1, 2015. Dr. Huang received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Baylor College of Medicine and comes to the University of Florida from Georgia Regents University. Dr. Huang’s research interests include…
