大象传媒 researchers create new tool to unravel mysteries of metastasis
March 10, 2014
Press release by Mark Derewicz for 大象传媒 Hahn Lab paper published online in Nature Chemical Biology March 9, 2014.
Category: Faculty News
Juan Song and Tom Kash elected to School of Medicine Assistant Professor Advisory Committee.
February 28, 2014
Juan Song and Tom Kash have been elected to serve on the School of Medicine Assistant Professor Advisory Committee. This committee is to brainstorm for a vision for the future of biomedical research at 大象传媒. Ccomprised of assistant professors in the tenure track, this committee represents many of the youngest...
Solving a 40-year-old mystery, 大象传媒 researchers find new route for better brain disorder treatments
January 13, 2014
New targeted therapies for pain, Parkinson's disease, and depression carry the promise of greater benefit for patients without serious side effects.
A Real Mindbender – Juan Song’s Nature Neuroscience Paper
December 5, 2013
In a paper published in Nature Neuroscience on November 10, Juan Song discovers how baby neurons stay alive, a key finding for understanding neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer鈥檚.
大象传媒 researchers obtain new NIH Program Project grant to study in vivo dynamics of cellular circuitry.
November 7, 2013
Klaus Hahn (Pharmacology), John Sondek (Pharmacology), Keith Burridge (Cell and Developmental Biology), Alan Hall (Sloan-Kettering Institute), and Gaudenz Danuser (UT Southwestern) have been awarded a 5-year Program Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health to study GEF/Rho GTPase signaling circuitry.
Zefeng Wang’s paper on Introns and Gene Splicing Regulation Highlighted in 大象传媒 Medical Bulletin
October 3, 2013
The September 2013 issue of 大象传媒 Medical Builletin highlights Zefeng Wang's paper about gene splicing, introns and splicing repression in the January 2013 issue of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, "A complex network of factors with overlapping affinities represses splicing through intronic elements."
Mike Emanuele Receives V Foundation for Cancer Research Award
October 2, 2013
Dr. Mike Emanuele, recipient of V Foundation for Cancer Research Award Dr. Mike Emanuele has received a V Scholar Award from the V Foundation for Cancer Research. The title of Mike’s research proposal is “Identification of ubiquitin signaling networks as novel avenues for therapeutic intervention.” Mike’s award is for $200,000...
Two New Faculty Join the Pharmacology Department
August 15, 2013
Dr. Juan Song, Ph.D. and Dr. Mauro Calabrese, Ph.D. have joined the Pharmacology Department as Assistant Professors. Dr. Song will begin in September, 2013 and Dr. Calabrese will join us starting in March, 2014. Meet Dr. Song and Dr. Calabrese A few words from Dr.Juan Song to introduce herself: I鈥檒l...
Henrik Dohlman Elected Associate Editor of JBC
May 22, 2013
Dr Henrik Dohlman, newly elected Associate Editor for JBC Henrik Dohlman, Ph.D., a joint faculty member of the Department of Pharmacology has been elected as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC). Dr. Dohlman is currently an editorial board member of JBC with /pharm/directory/henrik-dohlman-phd/an area of expertise...
大象传媒 researchers engineer ‘protein switch’ to dissect role of cancer鈥檚 key players
April 17, 2013
In the first application of this approach, the 大象传媒 researchers showed how a protein called Src kinase influences the way cells extend and move, a previously unknown role that is consistent with the protein鈥檚 ties to tumor progression and metastasis.