Students of Dr. Xiaoyan Jiang, Andrew Wu and Ryan Yen (Collings Stevens Laboratory), along with a team of researchers, have published a paper in Leukemia Journal titled, "Identification of Multivariable microRNA and Clinical Biomarker Panels to Predict Imatinib Response in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia at Diagnosis."

Congratulations to Dr. Hossein Rafiei, Michelle Yeung, Dr. Sara Kowalski, Dr. Gerald Krystal and Dr. Ingrid Elisia for their new publication titled, "Development of a novel human triculture model of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and identification of berberine as ameliorating steatosis, oxidative stress and fibrosis" in the Frontiers in Pharmacology journal, October 2023.

Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Amoah (Kuchenbauer Lab), for receiving the Walter Benjamin German Research Foundation (DFG) fellowship for the work titled "Characterization of miR-106a in inv(3)/t(3;3) AML and its exploitation as an avenue for treatment".

Congratulations to Mona Sadeghvalad, Davit Khijakadze, Dr. Mona Orangi and Dr. Fumio Takei (Takei Lab), for their new publication titled, “Flow cytometric analysis of innate lymphoid cells: challenges and solutions” in the Frontiers Immunology journal, September 2023.

Congratulations to graduate student Melika Bakharzi (Kuchenbauer Lab) for receiving the Dr. Andrew R. Belch MEET grant for young myeloma investigators, for the work titled, "Optimizing the Vk*MYC multiple myeloma model to investigate osteolytic bone lesions".

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Hoodless (Hoodless Lab) for receiving the Canada Research Society & Canadian Liver Foundation grant, for the work titled, “Exploring epigenetic alteration in liver cancer at single cell resolution”.

Congratulations to Dr. Fumio Takei (Takei Lab) and Dr. Marco Marra (Marra Lab), for receiving a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Program for the project titled, “Innate lymphoid cells in hepatitis and liver fibrosis.”

Congratulations to Dr. Faezeh Borzooee (Kuchenbauer Lab), for receiving the Michael Smith Health Research BC Research Trainee award 2023 for the work titled, "Targeting APOBEC3 enzymes as novel metabolic regulators in multiple myeloma."

Congratulations to Dr. Athena Phoa for receiving the Michael Smith Health Research BC Research Trainee award 2023 for the work titled, "Restoration of miR-185 in combination with BCR-ABL downregulation by non-viral delivery of siRNA with lipomeric carriers and lipid nanoparticles sensitizes drug resistant cells to TKIs."