2026.10 Benteng and Xin’s paper is out in Molecular Cancer Research and featured on the October cover—huge congratulations! In this study, we show that MYC-mediated upregulation of USP39 stabilizes SRSF1, linking oncogenic signaling to the regulation of a key splicing factor in pancreatic cancer.
This is our second AACR journal cover highlighting SRSF1 biology, following our earlier Cancer Discovery cover on SRSF1 in pancreatitis and pancreatic tumorigenesis. Congratulations to Benteng, Xin, and all our collaborators!🥳🥳🥳
2026.06 Xin’s review paper is out in Biochemical Society Transactions! Congratulations, Xin!
2026.06 Ledong had a great time at the 31st Annual Meeting of the RNA Society in Montreal! He shared our lab’s research in a talk, contributed to the meeting as a member of the Scientific Program Committee, and chaired a session on RNA therapeutics. It was also a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with old friends and make new ones!
2026.04 We are excited to welcome Wonjeong Lee to the lab as a Research Assistant.
2026.04 Ledong joined the ASPET/AMSPC “Future Leaders in Pharmacology” webinar and shared our lab’s research in an invited talk!
2026.02 Benteng successfully passed his thesis qualifying exam! Congratulations, Benteng, on this important milestone!🎉
2026.01 We are excited to welcome Ivan Yang to the lab as a Research Volunteer.
2025.12 Two of our collaborative projects with Dr. Ramana V. Davuluri and Dr. Song Wu have both been funded by the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund.
2025.10 Ledong attended the RNA Processing in Cancer: From Bench to Bedside meeting and gave a talk.
2025.09 We celebrate Kevin Coughlin re-joining the lab as an MS graduate student.
2025.06 We are glad to share that our first preprint has been posted!🎉 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.671882v1
2025.06 We welcome Benteng Ma to join the lab as the first graduate student.
2025.02 Kevin’s Insights commentary paper is out in JEM—congratulations, Kevin!🥳🥳🥳
2025.01 The Wan lab is awarded a pilot grant from Stony Brook Cancer Center Targeted Research Support Pilot Grant.
2024.03 The Wan lab is awarded a pilot grant from the Institutional Research Grant 21–143-01-IRG from the American Cancer Society.
2023.12 We are excited to welcome Dr. Xin Zhang to join the lab as a postdoctoral scientist.
2023.12 We welcome Kevin Coughlin to join the lab as the first undergraduate student.
2023.12 The Wan Lab officially started from Dec 1, 2023.