2025

August 12th

• Congratulations to Jian Wang, Jiajia Du, Xiangmeng Luo, Linjie Guo , Xiang Li, and Ziling Dong for their paper Protocol to generate genetically engineered organoid-initiated mouse models of esophageal cancer published in STAR Protocols!

July 24th

• Congratulations to Kan Wu for his paper Mechanisms and implications of epithelial cell plasticity in the bladder published in Nature Reviews Urology!

July 1st

• Congratulations to Mengsha Zhang, Ailing Zhong, Hongyu Liu and Lei Zhao for their paper EZH2 loss promotes gastric squamous cell carcinoma published in nature communications!

June 30th

• The graduation photos and family photos of our lab in 2025.

June 11th

• Congratulations to Manli Wang, Yiyun Wang, Xiangyu Pan, Bo Wang, Yuying Wang, and Xiangmeng Luo for their paper Acquired resistance to immunotherapy by physical barriers with cancer cell–expressing collagens in non–small cell lung cancer to be published on Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. !

May 25th

• Congratulations to Xiaofeng Deng, Hanyu Jiang, and Fan Gu for successfully passing their master graduation thesis defense.

May 14th

• Congratulations to Jiajia Du, Xudong Wan, Yiyun Wang, Mengsha Zhang, and Ailing Zhong for successfully passing their doctoral graduation thesis defense.

March 27th

• Congratulations to Xiaoqian Zhai, Wanli Wang, Qi Zhang, and Donglin Li for their paper Identifying the Intergenic ALK Fusion LOC388942-ALK as a Driver of Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer published in MedComm !

January 22nd

• Year-end appraisal of work in 2024
• Congratulations to Yiyun Wang and Jiaxin Li for winning the certificates of achievement for their excellence in scientific research and team contribution.

January 17th–19th

• The Chen-Liu Lab 10th Anniversary Retreat

2024

December 28th

• Celebration of the New Year.

December 23th

• The kick-off meeting for the national science and technology major project undertaken by Professor Yu Liu.

November 11th

• Congratulations to Jian Wang, Jiajia Du, Xiangmeng Luo and Linjie Guo for their paper A platform of functional studies of ESCC-associated gene mutations... published in Cell Reports!

October 18th

• The third Lung Cancer Innovation Forum was successfully held.

July 25th

• Congratulations to Xudong Wan, Yiman Peng and Jian Wang for their paper Primary and Orthotopic Murine Models of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Reveal Molecular Mechanisms Underlying its Malignant Progression to be published on Advanced Science!

June 30th – July 5th

• Our laboratory successfully hosted the 2024 WestChina International Symposium on Cancer Research!

• Welcome Professor Scott Lowe to come to CC-LY Lab!

May 14th

• Congratulations to Yingjie Wang and Yuying Wang for successfully passing their master graduation thesis defense.
• Congratulations to Huihui Hu for successfully passing their bachelor graduation thesis defense.

April 4th

• Spring Outing and Cycling during Qingming Festival

February 19th

• Congratulations to Shiyu Zhang and Ping Tan for their paper Targeting histone modifiers in bladder cancer therapy — preclinical and clinical evidence published in Nature Reviews Urology!

February 3rd

• Year-end appraisal of work in 2023
• Congratulations to Manli Wang, Yiyun Wang, Qi Zhang, and Jiabo Zhang for winning the certificates of achievement for their excellence in scientific research and team contribution.

2023

December 31st

• Celebration of the New Year

August 28th

• Congratulations to Qi Zhang, He Li and Xuelan Chen for their paper Identifying STRN3-RARA as a new fusion gene for acute promyelocytic leukemia to be published in Blood!

August 21st

• 2023 Lab Retreat

June 20th

• Congratulations to Jingyao Chen, Siqi Dai and Lei Zhao for their paper A New Type of Endometrial Cancer Models in Mice Revealing the Functional Roles of Genetic Drivers and Exploring their Susceptibilities to be published on Advanced Science!

June 18th

• The graduation photos and family photos of our lab in 2023.

May 24th

• Congratulations to Bo Wang and Lu Zhang for successfully passing their master graduation thesis defense.
• Congratulations to Lu Wang and Yifan Zhang for successfully passing their bachelor graduation thesis defense.

May 22nd

• Xiangyu Pan, Lu Qi, and Jianan Zheng successfully passed their doctoral graduation thesis defense. Jingyao Chen successfully passed the postdoctoral exit defense. Congratulations to them!

May 19th

• Congratulations to Xiangyu Pan for winning The Ray Wu Prize in 2023! This prize is established to inspire Asia’s most promising young Ph.D. students to become future leaders in life sciences.

May 4th

• Congratulations to Jing Xu, Ailing Zhong and Shan Zhang for their paper KMT2D Deficiency Promotes Myeloid Leukemias which Is Vulnerable to Ribosome Biogenesis Inhibition to be published on Advanced Science!

May 2nd

• Congratulations to Baohong Wu, Xuelan Chen and Xiangyu Pan for their paper Single-cell transcriptome analyses reveal critical roles of RNA splicing during leukemia progression to be published on PLOS Biology!

May 1st

• Congratulations to Jianan Zheng, Zhongwang Wang and Xiangyu Pan for their paper DNMT3A^R882H accelerates angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma in mice to be published on Oncogene!

March 12th

• A spring outing to Xinglong Lake.

February 8th

• Congratulations to Lu Qi for her paper COX-2/PGE2 upregulation contributes to the chromosome 17p-deleted lymphoma to be published on Oncogenesis!

January 15th

• Congratulations to Xiangyu Pan, Xuelan Chen, Manli Wang and Yiman Peng for winning the certificates of achievement for their excellence in scientific research and team contributing in the academic year of 2022.
• Congratulations to Feifei Na for winning the Special Contribution Award of the Chen-Liu Laboratory.

2022

October 18th

• Congratulations to Zhenghao Lu, Ailing Zhong, Hongyu Liu and Mengsha Zhang for their paper Dissecting the genetic and microenvironmental factors of gastric tumorigenesis in mice to be published on Cell Reports!

October 15th

• 2022 Lab Retreat

September 12th

• Congratulations to Manli Wang, Xuelan Chen, Ping Tan and Yiyun Wang for their paper Acquired semi-squamatization during chemotherapy suggests differentiation as a therapeutic strategy for bladder cancer to be published on Cancer Cell !

June 14th

• Congratulations to Xiaohang Hang, Lei Zhao and Baohong Wu for their paper BCL-2 isoform β promotes angiogenesis by TRiC-mediated upregulation of VEGF-A in lymphoma to be published on Oncogene!

June 5th

• The family photo of our lab.

May 17th

• Xuelan Chen, Manli Wang and Baohong Wu successfully defended their PhD thesis. Congratulations to them!

April 21st

• Congratulations to Feifei Na, Xiangyu Pan, Jingyao Chen, Xuelan Chen and Manli Wang for their paper KMT2C deficiency promotes small cell lung cancer metastasis through DNMT3A-mediated epigenetic reprogramming to be published on Nature Cancer!

April 13th

• Congratulations to Xiangyu, Jian and Linjie for their paper Identifying a confused cell identity for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma to be published on Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy!

March 19th

• A ride along the Tianfu Greenway.

February 8th

• Congratulations to Qi Zhang, Lei Zhao and Yi Yang for their paper Mosaic loss of chromosome Y promotes leukemogenesis and clonal hematopoiesis to be published on JCI Insight!

2021

December 31st

• Celebration of the New Year.