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✝️🇹🇼🇺🇸MD/PhD candidate studying pancreatic cancer in @ArulChinnaiyan and @Lyssiotislab at @UmichMedSchool

Ann Arbor, MI
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Caleb Cheng
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Beyond grateful to share that my main PhD thesis project, Targeting PIKfyve-driven lipid metabolism in pancreatic cancer (@LyssiotisLab @ArulChinnaiyan), has just been published in @Nature! @UMRogelCancer @UMICHpancreas @UMichMedSchool @UMichPath @UMichResearch @UMichCMB
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RT @NIH: 🚨 New NIH Public Access Policy goes into effect TODAY! Research accepted for publication on July 1, 2025, must be publicly availab….
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I’m so lucky to be a part of this lab! Thanks to your leadership and guidance @LyssiotisLab.
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Lyssiotis Lab
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It’s been a decade - Happy 10 year Labiversary @LyssiotisLab 🎉🥳. Thank you to all have who been along on the journey 🙏🏼 @UMPhysiology, @UMRogelCancer, @UMICHpancreas
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Congrats Diana!!.
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🎉 I’m thrilled to share my first PhD paper published recently👇! We @YatrikShahLab explored how lipid-mediated crosstalk between fibroblasts and epithelial cells drives ferroptosis in inflammatory bowel disease. Excited to keep pushing this work forward in the lab!.
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RT @UMRogelCancer: A study from #RogelCancer researchers @ArulChinnaiyan and @abhijitparolia, published in @ScienceMagazine, sheds light on….
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RT @NatMetabolism: Fibroblast lipid metabolism through ACSL4 regulates epithelial sensitivity to ferroptosis in IBD
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RT @TyHaliburton22: Man. Don’t know how to explain it other than shock. Words cannot express the pain of this letdown. The frustration is u….
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RT @LyssiotisLab: The *celebration white board* hit capacity 🙌🏼 Taking the time to enjoy and share in our victories 🤩😎 .cc: @UMPhysiology,….
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Really enjoyed using @lucidsci Resipher to measure real-time OCR as part of the study. More to come! @YatrikShahLab @LyssiotisLab.
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In a recent Nature paper, @DJCalebC et al. explore how PIKfyve regulates lysosomal lipid recycling in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Loss of PIKfyve disrupts this recycling, driving tumor cells to compensate via de novo lipogenesis. This compensatory shift opens up a
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RT @LyssiotisLab: Uridine is having a moment… we thought, worthy of the designation: Metabolite of the Month😆 @julia_ugras. Jokes aside, a….
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RT @Nature: From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to….
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RT @UMRogelCancer: New study suggests possible treatment option for high-grade serous tubo-ovarian carcinoma with CDK12 loss. #ChinnaiyanLa….
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RT @AndrewMWaters: Long overdue, but super excited to have @NinaSteele17 come to @CincyMedicine to continue her lab and track record of suc….
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RT @julia_ugras: Happy Friday! @LyssiotisLab and I had a fun time hyping up our favorite metabolite Uridine as the Metabolite of the Month….
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RT @OlzmannLab: Happy to have contributed in a small way to this very cool study from Jim Wells lab, led by Fangzhu Zhao. They developed lo….
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RT @JaviGBermudez: My lab's first paper is out in @Nature. We show that lipoprotein uptake protects tumors from ferroptosis by delivering t….
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RT @UMichResearch: Researchers at the @UMRogelCancer identified a gene that plays a key role in prostate cancer cells that have transitione….
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RT @michigandaily: On Tuesday, the FBI disclosed they would be charging Yunqing Jian, a Chinese student and research fellow in molecular, c….
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RT @UMichResearch: The Office of the Vice President for Research will award eight research faculty members from across the @UMich for their….
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RT @umichmedicine: U-M researchers engineer a herpes virus to turn on T cells for immunotherapy
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RT @LabWaggoner: An engineered viral protein recruits the LCK kinase to activate STAT5 and sustain T cell functionality in solid tumors @Sc….
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