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Vincent Pham to Present at the 2025 San Antonio Liver Cancer Symposium
October 1, 2025
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS — The Huang Laboratory at UT Health San Antonio is proud to announce that Vincent Pham, PhD candidate in the Cancer Biology discipline and member of the Huang Lab, will present his research at the 2025 San Antonio Liver Cancer Symposium (SALCS). The San Antonio Liver Cancer Symposium, hosted annually by the […]
Dr. Gang Huang to Present at the 2025 La Frontera Symposium on Immunological Advances in the Tumor Microenvironment
September 10, 2025
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS — The Huang Laboratory at UT Health San Antonio is proud to announce that Dr. Gang Huang, Professor in the Department of Cell Systems and Anatomy and faculty member of the Mays Cancer Center, will present his latest work on PH102 at the upcoming La Frontera Symposium, hosted by the Long School […]
Huang Lab Publishes Review on Mitophagy, Cancer, and Neurodegeneration in Journal of Hematology & Oncology
August 1, 2025
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Huang Lab at the Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio announces a new review in the Journal of Hematology & Oncology: “Mitophagy’s impacts on cancer and neurodegenerative diseases: implications for future therapies.” Authors are Jason Huang, Vincent Truong Pham, Shaozi Fu, Gang Huang, Ya-Guang Liu, and Lei Zheng. […]
Mays Cancer Center Awards Multi‑Program Grant to Study Mitophagy in Cancer‑Associated Cachexia
June 6, 2025
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Mays Cancer Center has awarded a Multi‑Program grant to Gang Huang, PhD (MCC and UT Health San Antonio) and Maria Gonzalez Porras, PhD (MCC and University of Texas at San Antonio) for a collaborative project titled “Mitophagy’s Role in Adipose Tissue Depletion During Cancer‑Associated Cachexia.” Cancer‑associated cachexia is a metabolic […]
Vincent Pham to Present Huang Lab Research at AACR Annual Meeting 2025
April 2, 2025
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Huang Lab at the Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio announces that Vincent Pham, Cancer Biology PhD Candidate, will present new preclinical findings at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Gang Huang, principal investigator, will attend the meeting alongside Vincent. […]
Huang Lab Publishes JCI Study Linking Cpt1a Loss to Metabolic Rewiring and Defective Hematopoietic Stem Cells
January 9, 2025
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Huang Lab at the Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio announces a new publication in the Journal of Clinical Investigation that defines an essential role for CPT1A in hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) maintenance. The study, published January 9, 2025, reports that deleting Cpt1a in the hematopoietic system disrupts […]
Huang Lab Announces Presentations at the 2024 American Society for Hematology Annual Meeting
December 1, 2024
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Huang Lab at the Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio will present new findings in hematopoietic stem cell biology and therapeutic mechanisms at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Hematology (ASH). Presenters include Gang Huang, PhD, and postdoctoral scholars Maiko Sezaki, PhD, and Jie Bai, […]
Huang Lab Awarded Morrison Trust Grant to Study Tumor‑Derived Lactate in Cancer‑Associated Cachexia
October 9, 2024
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Huang Lab at the Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio has been selected for funding by the Morrison Trust for the project “Mechanisms of tumor‑derived lactate in blood as a driver of cancer‑associated cachexia.” Cancer‑associated cachexia is a metabolic syndrome that worsens outcomes and quality of life. This […]
Vincent Pham Selected for Inaugural EDGe T32 Cancer Training Program
October 9, 2024
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Huang Lab at the Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio announces that Vincent Pham, Cancer Biology PhD Candidate, has been selected for the inaugural cohort of the NCI T32 Epigenetics, DNA Repair and Genomics (EDGe) Training Program in Cancer, T32CA279363. Vincent’s appointment began on October 1, 2024, and […]