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Yang Lab | Recording & Decoding Cancer Evolution
Latest Updates & Events
2026
07/01. We are now supported by the American Lung Association for our research on cancer plasticity!
06/10. Congrats to Haoyu for passing his qual exam with flying colors! More exciting work to do now!
06/01. Dian got the 2026 Schaefer Research Scholar Award!
05/20. Congrats to Jackie for graduating from Columbia! Wish you the best at MIT!
2025
12/10. Christmas party! White elephant gift swap
10/03. Haoyu got the best posters award at Systems Biology Retreat!
08/02. Annual Lab Outing joint with the Concepcion lab. Sail, sail, sail!
06/02 Bittersweet moment sending off the first member of the Yang lab, our in-house mouse wizard, Victor Chen, to MSTP program. It has been a very tough year of application due to funding cut, but Victor got several great offers! Wish you all the best!
04/20 Lab BBQ celebrating multiple accomplishment: Victor gets several great offers from MD-PhD. programs, Jingjing finishes her visiting in the lab, Jessie starts in the lab..
2024
05/18 Jackie was awarded a highly competitive summer research fellowship from Columbia University. Congrats Jackie!
06/04 Celebrating Victor's B-day!
07/19 Our first lab outing joint with our neighbor Concepcion lab at the SPYGAME was a blast. We were among the top scored teams of the day! Great job, team! Great food & lots of fun.
07/30 Our lab is awarded a NCI-K22 grant to support our work on cancer plasticity.
09/20 Welcome our new rotation students. Hotpot party!
10/01 Our lab received a NIH Directors New Innovator Award (DP2) to support our work on
lung cancer metastasis and heterogeneity for the next 5 years!
10/20 Yousuf joined us from the Columbia Biomedical Engineering Program. Welcome!
2023
09/01 Yang lab officially opens at Columbia University in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics and the Department of Systems Biology. A new adventure starts! We are recruiting at all levels.
10/10 Victor joins our lab as a research assistant. He graduated from Emory University with both wet- and dry-lab experience and he is interested in cancer spatial genomics. Welcome, Victor!
11/07 Jackie joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher. She is a computer science major and interested in combining her coding skills with benchwork experience. Welcome, Jackie!
11/10 Our long-term collaborator Matt visits our new lab from Stanford. What a pleasure to have a friend come from afar!
12/15 Our first lab holiday party joint with our great neighbor Concepcion lab. Great food, drinks, and white elephant gift exchange! Wish everyone a great new year!
12/15 Our first lab holiday party joint with our great neighbor Concepcion lab. Great food, drinks, and white elephant gift exchange! Wish everyone a great new year!
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