Dr. Raushan Kurmasheva’s laboratory has been awarded a $400K NCI SBIR Phase II grant titled “Enhanced overall survival in high-risk pediatric tumors using a novel oral small molecule.”
January 7, 2026Federal Awarding Agency: NIH/NCI Project Title: Enhanced overall survival in high-risk pediatric tumors using a novel oral small molecule. Sub PI: Raushan Kurmasheva, PhD Start: 9/15/25 End: 9/14/27 Amount: $401,844 Project Summary: The research in thi …
Star Protocols: Transformer and graph variational autoencoder to identify microenvironments: A deep learning protocol for spatial transcriptomics (Chen)
January 6, 2026Karla Paniagua 1 8, Yufei Huang 2 3 4, Shou-jiang Gao 2 5, Yidong Chen 6 7, Yu-Fang Jin 1, Mario Flores 1 9 Highlights Workflow to build spatial objects linking stitched images with transcriptomics data Steps to apply the transformer and GraphVAE for s …
Editorial: Efficacy of larotrectinib in pediatric cancers with NTRK gene fusions (Houghton)
December 31, 2025Peter J Houghton 1, Mary-Ann Bjornsti 2 PMID: 41502892 PMCID: PMC12771222 DOI: 10.21037/tp-2025-664 No abstract available Figures Figure 1 Signaling pathways downstream of ligand… Figure 2 Schema showing characteristics of fusion… Comment on Elective D …
Molecular Oncology: Effective therapeutic targeting of CTNNB1-mutant hepatoblastoma with WNTinib (Houghton Lab)
December 8, 2025Ugne Balaseviciute, Júlia Huguet-Pradell, Jordi Abril-Fornaguera, Albert Gris-Oliver, Alex Rialdi, Elisa Fernández-Martínez, Carla Montironi, Vanessa Del Pozo, Peter Houghton, Laura Zanatto, Agavni Mesropian, Ieva Keraite, Swan Thung, Carolina Armengol …
Cancer Research: Antibody-Mediated Targeting of Secretory Protein SCUBE3 Suppresses Cancer Progression by Inhibiting Oncogenic Signaling and Inducing Anti-tumor Immunity (Rao, Zhou, Hromas, Sung, Chen, et al)
December 3, 2025Deepika Singh Benjamin C. Onyeagucha Daisy Medina Panneerdoss Subbarayalu Rahul Mojidra Dongwen Lv Mukund Bhandari Santosh Timilsina Prabhakar Pitta Venkata Jian Yu. Huang Saif Nirzhor Shahad Abdulsahib Jack Yancy. Prochnau Chris TP. Do Subapriya Rajam …
Cancer Research: Antibody-Mediated Targeting of Secretory Protein SCUBE3 Suppresses Cancer Progression by Inhibiting Oncogenic Signaling and Inducing Anti-tumor Immunity (Rao, Zhou, Hromas, Sung, Chen
December 3, 2025Deepika Singh Benjamin C. Onyeagucha Daisy Medina Panneerdoss Subbarayalu Rahul Mojidra Dongwen Lv Mukund Bhandari Santosh Timilsina Prabhakar Pitta Venkata Jian Yu. Huang Saif Nirzhor Shahad Abdulsahib Jack Yancy. Prochnau Chris TP. Do Subapriya Rajam …
NGS User Group Holiday Gathering
December 2, 2025Dear NGS Community, The Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute (CCRI) Genome Sequencing Facility (GSF), the Next Generation Sequencing Shared Resource of the Mays Cancer Center, warmly invites you to our 2025 NGS User Group Holiday Party: 📅 Wedne …
Molecular Cell: Deubiquitinases cleave ubiquitin-fused ribosomal proteins and physically counteract their targeting to the UFD pathway (Olsen)
December 1, 2025Stephanie Patchett 1 5, Seyed Arad Moghadasi 1 5, Ankita Shukla 2, Farid El Oualid 3, Beatrix M. Ueberheide 1 4, Shaun K. Olsen 2, Tony T. Huang 1 6 Highlights Cleavage-resistant ubiquitin-fused human ribosomal proteins (RPs) impair ribosome function U …
Science Advances: Ligand-receptor interactions induce and mediate regulatory functions of BATF3+ B cells (Chen Lab, Zheng Lab)
November 12, 2025Hui Yan Rui Wang Suryavathi Viswanadhapalli Christian Cervantes Funan He Shuai Wu Azad Khosh Weiwei Luo Jingwei Wang Maria J. Fernandez Uday P. Pratap Mustafa Khan Karli Hinton Sai Eashan Vankamamidi Dariela Perez Carlos E. Rivera Harshita B. Gup …
ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters: Identification and Exploration of a Series of SARS-Cov-2 MPro Cyano-Based Inhibitors Revealing Ortho-Substitution Effects within the P3 Biphenyl Group (Olsen)
November 10, 2025Emma Clyde-Allen Mikołaj Zmudzinski Mohammad Afsar Ciyana James Anindita Nayak Digant Nayak Priscila dos Santos Bury Dirk Jochmans Johann Neyts Christopher J. Scott Shaun K. Olsen Marcin Drag Rich Williams* Abstract Starting from a simple scaffold hopp …