Lab News

June 8, 2023

Congratulations on Josie’s Master thesis defense!

 

May 11, 2023

Our new paper reveals crosstalk between AR and Wnt pathways in regulating prostate basal stem cells.

 

August 22, 2022

Congratulations on Cory’s PhD thesis defense!

 

May 24, 2022

Our new study suggests that stromal AR inhibits prostate cancer progression by restraining luminal cells.

 

March 14, 2022

National Cancer Institute (NCI) awards the Wang lab $1.7 M over five years to study inflammation in prostate cancer.

 

November 23, 2021

Congratulations to Chuan on obtaining the CIRM Postdoc Training Fellowship!

 

April 26, 2021

Cory is awarded the Dissertation Year Fellowship. Congratulations!

 

December 4, 2020

Daniel wins the Undergraduate Research in Science and Technology Award.

 

May 19, 2020

American Cancer Society (ACS) awards the Wang lab $750,000 to study the cell of origin for bladder cancer.

 

December 3, 2019

Congratulations on Ofir’s Master thesis defense!

 

September 12, 2019

Luminal cell contact inhibits prostate basal stem cell activities, our new study shows.

 

July 29, 2019

The lab is awarded the $75,000 UC CRCC grant.

 

June 14, 2019

Daniel wins the Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group (SCCBG) Undergraduate Research Award. Congratulations!

 

February 4, 2019

Lily is awarded a three-year Postdoc Traning Fellowship by the California TRDRP program.

 

June 1, 2018

Cory successfully defended in the PhD qualifying exam. Congratulations : ))

 

May 3, 2018

Chuan and Ofir’s paper describes a new method for gene delivery into the mouse bladder.

 

April 24, 2018

Congratulations to Alex, who is a winner of the UCSC Dean’s Award.

 

July 5, 2017

New paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry explores how prostate luminal stem cells are specified.

 

February 6, 2017

Congratulations to Lily, whose organoid image wins the Image Competition of the Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells.

 

December 12, 2016

Congratulations to Qing, whose first-author paper on cell-type-specific AR is accepted in Nature Communications.

 

February 29, 2016

Congratulations to Josh, who wins the Undergraduate Research in the Sciences Award.

 

September 22, 2015

National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards the Wang Lab $1.8 M over five years to study prostate stem cell plasticity.

 

September 18, 2015

Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group (SCCBG) awards $12,500 to the Wang Lab for developing new bladder cancer models.

 

December 8, 2014

Congratulations to Vincent, who wins the Undergraduate Research in the Sciences Award.

 

July 1, 2014

Congratulations to Qing, who wins a postdoctoral fellowship from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Training Program.

 

January 2, 2014

All set up – the Wang Lab starts running!