Assistant professor at University of Chicago, studying stem cell & immune interactions in cancer and tissue regeneration
Chicago, IL
Joined June 2015
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Thrilled to share the new work published on @Cancer_Cell from our lab reporting the critical roles of tumor initiating cells in shaping the cell states of tumor associated neutrophils. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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We are hiring! 🌟 Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor. It's a broad search: we want great colleagues doing serious biological work at the molecular scale. Please share!
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Could this administration be more stupid?
The NIH plans to close the door on one of the few pathways available to international students on visas to forge a career in biomedical research in the U.S. trib.al/XysZTdU
Favorite conference attended this year!
Great, first day of our @caseccc Cellular Plasticity & Tumor Ecosystem Conference! Looking forward to another exciting day of science!
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It's sad to have to constantly point this out these days, but Yu Deng and Hong Wang were born in China and are professors at the University of Chicago and NYU. We should do everything we can to nurture our homegrown talent and primary and higher education, but the reason the United States has had the scientific edge over other countries, including China, is because we have always attracted their best and brightest and incentivized them to stay. From Hans Bethe to C .S Wu, from Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar to Katalin Karikó, we have attracted world-class talent that has made and kept America great. The day we stop doing that we lose that greatness.
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With the dumbest Student Visa policy the orange clown introduced now, we will see more and more cases like him in the next ten years.
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Big news coming later today from @JuyeunLee31 (now with her own lab at @CCFL_BrainTumor ) and our @CCLRI @caseccc lab 🕺
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Thrilled to share our first iteration of IL-12–armored CAR T cells targeting tumor associated macrophages (TAM) to treat metastatic cancer. Led by the fantastic @jaimemateustique as a collaboration between @brown_lab1 and my lab @sinaiimmunology. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUUD… (1/4)
Excellent summary from @CD_AACR on our work!
Stem Cell–Neutrophil Crosstalk Modulates Immunotherapy Response brnw.ch/21wZeXs
A #ResearchWatch summary of a recent study by Weijie Guo, Jingyun Luan, Yuxuan Miao and colleagues.
Glad to see that the art depicting our new paper is selected as the Cover for this new issue of @Cancer_Cell . First cover story of my career!
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🔥Hot off the press: Yuxuan Miao, PhD (@YMphoenix) and team have published a new study in @Cancer_Cell revealing how cancer-initiating stem cells support nearby neutrophils by supplying arachidonic acid—ultimately driving resistance to immunotherapy.
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In a new study, Yuxuan Miao, PhD, and team identifies how tumor-initiating stem cells hijack nearby neutrophils to evade immunotherapy, suggesting that disrupting the defense mechanism may improve long-term outcomes.
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An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it.
Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device.
The cruelty is endless. npr.org/2025/10/09/nx-s1-549…
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This year’s medicine laureate Shimon Sakaguchi discovered a new class of T cells.
Sakaguchi was swimming against the tide in 1995, when he made a key discovery. At the time, many researchers were convinced that immune tolerance only developed due to potentially harmful immune cells being eliminated in the thymus, through a process called central tolerance.
Sakaguchi showed that the immune system is more complex and discovered a previously unknown class of immune cells, which protect the body from autoimmune diseases.
#NobelPrize
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
