News

8/2026

Asher Shin presents poster at OSET High School Program Poster session

7/2026

Congratulations to Sam for winning the Blood Cancer United (formerly Leukemia & Lymphoma Society) Fellow Award

7/2026

Sam Taylor speaks at Heme/Onc Fellows WIP

7/2026

Ahmed Elhossiny presents at Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research Mini-Symposium

7/1/26

R01 awarded to the Chan Lab to study the basal state in histological transformation in lung cancer

7/2026

Carol Wu and Cece Shao join the lab

6/2026

Manny Spanos and Hrishi Somayaji present posters at the Computational Oncology Retreat

6/2026

Congratulations to Manny Spanos for passing his qualifying exam!

6/2026

Asher Shin joins the lab

5/2026

Congratulations to Eric Sun for passing his ACE!

4/2026

Congratulations to Sam Taylor for securing another fellowship with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society! Absolutely crushing it!

4/2026

Manny Spanos, Mamie Wang, and Swanand Rakhade present posters at AACR

  • Mamie's poster title: scDeBussy: Cohort-level pseudotime alignment reveals recurrent dynamic gene programs in histological transformation
  • Manny's poster title: Spatial transcriptomics uncovers patterns of transcriptional reprogramming and immune evasion in small cell lung cancer.
4/2026

Congratulations to Sahil Sahni for passing his qualifying exam!

2/2026

Ahmed Elhossiny joins lab

2/2026

AACR abstract accepted

1/2026

Benjamin Chong joins the lab

12/2025

Trie Arni Djunadi joins the lab

12/2025

Xiaoli Mi joins the lab

9/2025

Paper published: Basal cell of origin resolves neuroendocrine–tuft lineage plasticity in cancer. Nature

6/2025

Congratulations to Sahil who’s been named a Geoffrey Beene Graduate Fellow and Sam Taylor who won a T32 award! You guys are rockstars!!

6/2025

Emmanuel "Manny" Spanos joins lab

6/2025

Hrishikesh "Hrishi" Somayaji joins lab

5/2025

Paper published: Functional characterization of the ATOH1 molecular subtype indicates a pro-metastatic role in small cell lung cancer. Cell Rep.

4/2025

Sahil Sahni joins lab

1/2025

Samuel Taylor joins the lab

9/2024

Forest Yang joins the lab

8/2024

Lena Morrill Gavarro joins the lab

8/2024

Liancheng Lu presents poster

7/2024

Paper published: Single-cell analysis of treatment-resistant prostate cancer: Implications of cell state changes for cell surface antigen-targeted therapies. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.

6/2024

Paper published: Olfactory neuroblastoma mimics molecular heterogeneity and lineage trajectories of small-cell lung cancer. Cancer Cell

6/2024

Zhanyu Wang joins the lab as a visiting postdoc

6/2024

Liancheng Lu joins the lab

6/2024

Meng "Mamie" Wang joins the lab

3/2024

Paper published: Immune heterogeneity in small-cell lung cancer and vulnerability to immune checkpoint blockade. Cancer Cell

12/2023

Riazat Ryan joins the lab

12/2023

Eric Sun joins the lab

10/2023

Swanand Rakhade joins the lab

10/2023

Xinjun Wang joins the lab

10/2023

Britney Forsyth joins the lab

10/2023

Morgan Lallo joins the lab

10/2023

Joe Chan Lab starts