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Apr 19 2024
Dr. Chen is nominated and selected for "SGA Open Educator Award"
Apr 11 2024
Dr. Chen is nominated and selected for "Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award"
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Apr 11 2024
Sy Bogutski received the "best Abstract writing Award" and Nicholas Pascuzzi received "Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award"
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Apr 9-10 2024
Our students, Nicholas Pascuzzi, Sy Bogutski, Lilly Pearce, Anika Seelam, Diya Shah and Trevor Jones, presented their work at the TTU undergraduate research conference.
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Mar 29 2024
Chen lab receives a 4 year grant (R16, Support for Research Excellence) from National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).
Mar 29 2024
The undergraduate student, Sy Bogutski was nominated for Portz Fellowship. The Portz Fellowship is a prestigious fellowship program that selects six of the most honorable undergraduate researchers from the whole nation and each institution can only nominate one best student to represent the institution to compete the award. Great Job !!
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Mar 2024
Our research work entitled "Prolactin simultaneously drives iron release from macrophages and uptake in mammary cancer cells through CD44" was submitted to the journal, Cells
Feb 23 2024
Chen Lab received a grant from "Undergraduate Research Experience Program" to Nicholas Pascuzzi and Dr. Chen.
Feb 22 2024
The graduate student, Reagan Farrell, received "Graduate Student Research Award" with $1,500 from the University.
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Jan 1 2024
The undergraduate student, Nicholas Pascuzzi, receives a college scholarship
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Dec 7 2023
Poster Presentation by Nicholas Pascuzzi and Reagan Farrell at SABCS
Nov 12 2023
Dr. Chen is nominated for "Apple Polishing Award for Texas Tech Mortar Board"
Oct 18 2023
We will attend the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Nicholas Pascuzzi and Reagan Farrell will present the poster "Prolactin drives labile iron transfer from macrophages to breast cancer cells through CD44."
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Sep 1 2023
The Ph.D. student, Shakil Khan, receives a Distinguished Graduate Student Assistantship (DGSA) starting Fall 2023.
Oct 27 2022
Our paper "Tumor Cell-Derived Asymmetric Dimethylarginine Regulates Macrophage Functions and Polarization." is accepted by Cancer Cell International. (Impact factor: 6.439) Link to the paper
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Sep 1 2022
We move to Texas Tech University. More research fun !!
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Aug 28 2022
Our editorial article "Splice modulating oligomers as cancer therapeutics" is now published on Genes & Cancer. Link to the article
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Apr 13 2022
Zaida Laventure (master student in the lab) received admission to PhD program at Case Western Reserve University. Congratulations, Zaida!!
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Apr 8-13 2022
We presented poster entitled "Tumor stem cell derived asymmetric dimethylarginine drives immune evasion via functional modulation of macrophages" at the American Association for Cancer Research 2022 in New Orleans. Link to the abstract
Nov 12-14 2021
The graduate student, Zaida Laventure, will attend the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) and present a poster with the topic of Arginine metabolism and tumor immune evasion.
Aug 7 2021
The ""Prolactin enhances T Regulatory Cell Promotion of Breast Cancer through the Long Form Prolactin Receptor" was now available online as eprint
Aug 6 2021
The graduate student poster "Modulation of Macrophage Plasticity and polarization by Cancer Stem Cells" was selected as the top 20% abstract
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Aug 4-6 2021
We are attending and presenting at Mississippi Academy of Sciences (Symposium)
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Aug 3 2021
Our research work about tumor Tregs entitled "Prolactin enhances T Regulatory Cell Promotion of Breast Cancer through the Long Form Prolactin Receptor" was accepted by Translational Oncology today
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June 21 2021
The "Visceral adipose tissue imparts peripheral macrophage influx into the hypothalamus" is published
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May 27 2021
The "Sex differences in the immune system become evident in the perinatal period in the four core genotypes mouse" is published
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May 26 2021
Our research work entitled "Visceral adipose tissue imparts peripheral macrophage influx into the hypothalamus" is accepted by Journal of Neuroinflammation
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May 7 2021
Our research work entitled "Sex differences in the immune system become evident in the perinatal period in the four core genotypes mouse" is accepted by Frontiers in Endocrinology
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2021.582614
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Dec 2 2020
Our research work entitled "Sex Differences in Macrophage Responses to Obesity-Mediated Changes Determine Migratory and Inflammatory Traits" was accepted and published in Journal of Immunology.
Oct 7 2020
Dr. Ethan Chen received a 3-year NIH INBRE Developmental grant (2020-2023)
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Aug 14 2020
Dr. Ethan Chen joined Delta State University
