April 2019:

ICBS Emory Young Scholar Chapter hosted the spring event on April 12th, 2019. This is the second major event of the student/postdoc organization since its launch in the summer of 2018. Centered around the theme “Chemical Biology in the Drug Discovery and Development”, Dr. Zaneta Nicolovska-Coleska (University of Michigan) talked about the chemical biology and drug discovery research in academia, Dr. Douglas Auld (Novartis) presented the opportunities of industry-academic collaborations with Novartis, and Dr. Kallol Basu (Merck Process) presented the development of a green and sustainable manufacturing process for a clinical candidate drug MK-7264. 

March 2019:

Congratulations Dr. Xiulei Mo with the Cell Chemical Biology paper "HTiP: High-Throughput Immunomodulator Phenotypic Screening Platform to Reveal IAP Antagonists as Anti-cancer Immune Enhancers"! Cell Chem. Biol., 2019, 26, 331-339. PubMed

April 2018: 

Congratulations!!!

Valentina Gonzalez-Pecchi selected as the 2018 William and Catherine Rice Award Recipient by the Cancer Biology graduate program of the Laney Graduate School, Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (GDBBS). The award will be presented during the GDBBS banquet on April 18, 2018.

Lauren Rusnak - Cancer Biology Graduate Program Dissertation Defense 
REGULATION OF APOPTOSIS SIGNAL-REGULATING KINASE 1 BY LATS2
Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 2:00 p.m. Whitehead Biomedical Research Building Auditorium

January 2018: The Fu lab contributes to the NCI CTD² network publication in Nature Biotechnology. Dr. Xiulei Mo, Instructor of Pharmacology, utilized the highly sensitive TR-FRET technology to provide strong supporting evidence for the dual CRISPR study-derived genetic network model with the Dr. McManus team from University of California San Francisco.

April 2017: Read about the new NanoLuc-Based Protein-Fragment Complementation Assay developed by our lab.

February 2017: Read about our research and development of OncoPPi, “a focused PPI[protein-protein interaction] resource that links cancer genes into a signaling network fordiscovery of PPI targets and network-implicated tumour vulnerabilities for therapeutic interrogation”. Emory Winship news story here.

February 2017: Lab alumni MaKendra Umstead recently received a 2017 Celebrating Black History Award by WRAL, a local North Carolina news station in Umstead’s homestate. Click here to watch Umstead’s interview and be sure to read about her previous work in the Fu Lab here.

November 2016: MaKendra Umstead was awarded the first Kharen Fulton Diversity Graduate Award! Read more>>

October 2016: Congratulations to Dr. MaKendra Umstead on defending her thesis and graduating from Emory’s Cancer Biology Ph.D. program!

October 2016: Cindy, Valentina and Yuhong will be presenting posters and representing the Fu Lab at the International Chemical Biology Society meeting in Madison, WI

August 2016: The Fu Lab is happy to welcome our newest graduate student, Sean Doyle, to the lab! He is a MD/Ph.D. student and beginning his first year in the MSP program.