Hui Zong
@hui_zong
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Glia biology, cancer biology, and immunology - all mixed together
Virginia, USA
Joined February 2014
Our RAEFISH spatial transcriptomics technology is now published in Cell @CellCellPress! RAEFISH enables sequencing-free whole genome spatial transcriptomics at single molecule resolution. This work represents the first time that transcripts from more than 23,000 genes were
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We are standing every day and saying - not in our name! More than 70% of Israelis want the end of this horrible war.
Disgusting. Who is going to stop this daily slaughter? Why do more Israelis not stand up and say ‘Not in our name’ ?
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Congrats to Michelle Monje @michelle_monje & Harry Sontheimer on receiving the 2025 International Prize for Translational Neuroscience from the Max Planck institute
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The two researchers are considered pioneers in the new field of cancer neuroscience
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BRAIN Initiative scientists discuss recent release of new tools to access specific classes of brain cells. This will help research to map, monitor and modulate brain activity, understand the circuits that make us human, and treat brain disorders.
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organoids, while a powerful tool for studying human biology, lack immune systems, which is a significant limitation. NIH prioritized organoids to model human tissues and diseases in vitro. However, their lack of an immune system hinders their ability to fully recapitulate human
ICYMI: #NIH announces a new initiative to reduce animal use in research by launching ORIVA, a new office dedicated to advancing non-animal methods. Read more in the Washington Update: https://t.co/Dkl4zwjTok
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On one hand, I agree in part w/ Professor here. Funding for work using human culture systems is welcomed. However, I agree w/ my colleague @bimald that you can't & won't be able to do essential physiology w/o animals. Let's see what @DrJBhattacharya @NIH does.
An accomplishment worth celebrating. @DrJBattacharya seems committed to humanizing biomedical research 🤩. Move over, mice (rabbits, dogs, monkeys)- NIH research is moving toward all-human. But...Engineers have to step up and create useful living patient avatars. Game on!
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Really thrilled to share that graduating PhD student Zhaoquan (Shasha) Wang, pioneer of our exciting fructose metabolism work, has received the prestigious Schmidt Science Fellowship that will allow him to pursue really exciting questions in the octopus. @WeillCornell
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Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump cuts to NIH research overhead payments https://t.co/XEYMFWHWQ2 via @statnews
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A federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from slashing NIH payments for research overhead
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Thank you senator!
President Trump and Elon Musk’s funding cuts to groundbreaking medical research do NOT Make America Great. That’s why I’m on the Senate floor introducing a resolution pledging support for NIH & asking for immediate passage. Watch.
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Congratulations Alison- well deserved!
Join us in congratulating Dr. Alison Criss, the 2024 recipient of the Robert J. Kadner Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching. Thank you for your outstanding and enduring contributions!
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A problem in science academia unfortunately is that many scientists would rather get a big grant than make a big discovery
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Our lab's latest work by @CaraAbecunas in collaboration with Audrey Kidd, Ying Jiang and @hui_zong : Identifying synthetically lethal associations between tumor metabolic state, driver mutations, and actionable targets. @UVABME @UVACancerCenter
https://t.co/albrIUZ5l0
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Abecunas et al. use multivariate modeling to explore recurrent metabolic states in cancer cells and uncover synthetically lethal interactions across diverse metabolic, oncogenic, and tissue contexts....
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Excited to share our lab's latest work by @CaraAbecunas in collaboration with Audrey Kidd, Ying Jiang and @hui_zong: A systems approach to identify synthetically lethal associations between tumor metabolic state, driver mutations, and actionable targets. @UVABME @UVACancerCenter
Multivariate analysis of metabolic state vulnerabilities across diverse cancer contexts reveals synthetically lethal associations
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Congratulations to Zhijian “James” Chen, 2024 #LaskerAward winner! – “for the discovery of the cGAS enzyme that senses foreign and self DNA, solving the mystery of how DNA stimulates immune and inflammatory responses.” https://t.co/hGFSdFMq7E
#Lasker2024 #LaskerLaureate
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Happy Birthday Ben! Today would’ve been his 70th birthday. A renowned scientist who changed the way we see glia cells and the brain and a wonderful friend and advocate, Ben was an inspiration to us all. #neuroscience #glia #advocateforwomeninStem #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Finally published in today's issue of @CellReports – our latest paper on patterning of retinal mosaics. See below for a tweetorial I posted last fall, and go here to see the final version: https://t.co/zQBD3m7fGf Congrats to co-authors Chris Kozlowski and @hadyniaks !
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Evenly spaced “mosaics” of retinal neurons were discovered a century ago, but how mosaics form remains unknown. Here, Kozlowski et al. show that developing mouse starburst amacrine cells use MEGF10,...
Many types of retinal neurons are arranged in strikingly regular patterns known as mosaics. The term "mosaic" means that neurons of a given type are spaced evenly across the retinal surface. How do mosaics form during development? Here's a 🧵 on our new paper
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Congratulations to the 4 MIC Grad students who successfully defended their Ph.Ds this summer!
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The department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology at UVA is looking for faculty members in the field of Neuro-Oncology / CNS Malignancies research. See
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