Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE GOLD RIBBON: THE CHEN LABđď¸
September 2, 2026Cancer research generates an enormous amount of data. Hidden inside that data are clues that can help researchers better understand why childhood cancers develop, how they behave, and which treatments may work best. At the Greehey Childrenâs Cancer Res …
Nucleic Acids Research: Researchers Find a New Weak Spot in Cancerâs DNA Repair System (Olsen, Zhou, Sung Lab, Hromas)
September 1, 2026Every time a cell divides, it has to copy billions of pieces of DNA. It is an incredibly complicated process, and mistakes or damage are inevitable. Healthy cells have several ways to fix those problems before they become dangerous. Cancer cells do, to …
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: đď¸THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE GOLD RIBBON: THE AUNE LAB
September 1, 2026Gregory J. Aune, MD, PhD, Surviving childhood cancer is the goal. But survival can come with consequences that last a lifetime. At the Greehey Childrenâs Cancer Research Institute, the Aune Lab, led by Gregory J. Aune, MD, PhD, studies the long-term he …
SAVE-THE-DATE: SATX Social Ride Presents the 3rd Gold Ribbon Ride
August 25, 2026Weâre kicking off Childhood Cancer Awareness Month with the SATX Social Ride 3rd Annual Gold Ribbon Ride, and weâd love to have you roll with us. Join SATX Social Ride and the Greehey Childrenâs Cancer Research Institute for a relaxed evening ride brin …
Cell Reports: EWSR1::FLI1 promotes neocentromere formation in Ewing sarcoma cells (Zheng, Sung Lab, Kitagawa Lab)
August 17, 2026Risa Kitagawa1,2 â Ediri E. Metitiri1,2 â Bin Yu1,2 â Changxian Shen1,2,6 â Alexander J.R. Bishop1,3,5 â Siyuan Zheng1,4 â Peter J. Houghton1,2 â Katsumi Kitagawa1,2,7 Send email to kitagawak@uthscsa.edu Highlights Summary Ewing sarcoma (EwS) is charac …
Nature Communications: HELZ-BRCA2 complex resolves R-loops to drive transcription-coupled homologous recombination (Wasmuth, Zheng, Sung Lab, Zhao)
August 12, 2026Wenjing Li, Bo Wu, Boya Gao, Elizabeth M. Irvin, Arijit Ghosh, Lillian Eliaz, Yuxin Huang, Youngho Kwon, Clara M. Stiefel, Tram Thi Ngoc Nguyen, David Zhao, Humberto Javier Suarez, Tengyang Ni, Salvador Alejo, OâTaveon Fitzgerald, Xuemei Song, Sandip K …
Function: Constitutive mTORC1 Activation in Skeletal Muscle Increases Inflammation but is not Sufficient to Impair Glucose Tolerance (Lai Lab)
July 23, 2026Erik D. Marchant, Hanna Kalenta, Sean P. Kilroe, Jacquelyn May, Wenjun Z. Martini, Korri S. Weldon, Zhao Lai, and Blake B. Rasmussen Abstract Aberrant mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) signaling in skeletal muscle has been implicated …
Nature Communications: Multifaceted roles of PDS5B in RAD51-dependent homology-directed DNA repair and replication fork protection (Sung Lab, Libich, Olsen, Wasmuth, Rao, et al)
July 22, 2026Jeffrey N. Katz, Lorena Samentar, Qingming Fang, Jae-Hoon Ji, Wenjing Li, Qiongmei Gao, Sahiti Kuppa, Boya Gao, Cody M. Rogers, Hardeep Kaur, Aida Badamchi Shabestari, Arijit Dutta, Shahrez Syed, Miriam Tovar, Nozomi Tomimatsu, Bipasha Mukherjee, Eliza …
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology: CST complex promotes second-strand synthesis in break-induced replication (Sung Lab, Malkova, et al)
July 21, 2026Pilendra Thakre, Jeff Wang, Liping Liu, Sameer Shah, Zhenxin Yan, Nhung Pham, Meng-Chia Tsai, Yuqin Zhao, Cody M. Rogers, Zhitong Feng, Hengyao Niu, Youngho Kwon, Xiaohua Wu, Anna Malkova, Patrick Sung & Grzegorz Ira Abstract Break-induced DNA repl …
Nature Communications: Break-induced replication forms long mutable single-strand DNA during meiosis (Malkova)
June 22, 2026Thanks to advances in treatment, more than 85% of children diagnosed with cancer now survive into adulthood. However, many survivors face long-term health challenges caused by their cancer treatments, including heart disease, diabetes, high blood press …