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Welcome to our newest lab members!
Trista (Wing Yan) Chung joins us as a laboratory technician. She recently completed a MSc degree from York University in Biology and brings with her important skillsets in cell culture, molecular biology and in vivo work. Jacob Novielli joins us as a MSc student after completing a BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics at McMaster…
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Welcome Dr. Jiahui (Jacob) Wang to the Nguyen lab!
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Jiahui (Jacob) Wang as the newest member of our lab! Jacob joins us with a PhD in Physiology, Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of Alberta and brings valuable industry experience from his previous role as a Scientist. Jacob’s position is supported by the Canada Leads 100 Challenge through…
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CIHR Project Grant Results
Congratulations to Dr. Long V. Nguyen for receiving a Project Grant in the 2025 competition for his project titled: “Functional properties and genetic dependencies of phenotypic plasticity in human triple-negative breast cancer“. He also received the CIHR Institute of Cancer Research’s Early Career Researcher Award in Cancer. This work will be supported by the lab…
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Dr. Sahil Sharma receives the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Postdoctoral Fellowship Award!
Congratulations to Sahil who received a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre to support his fellowship training and his project titled: “Unraveling molecular vulnerabilities in propagating TNBC clones via DNA barcoding and CRISPR functional genomics”.
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Dr. Sarah Kronheim presents her work at the 2025 EACR Congress in Lisbon
Sarah received a Travel Grant to attend the 2025 EACR Congress in Lisbon to present her work on “Dynamics and chemotherapy response of single cell-derived human breast cancer clones” on June 18, 2025 in the Joint EACR-ASPIC Symposium on Cancer Therapy Resistance. Her oral presentation was very well received – well done, Sarah! This work…
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New publication alert!
The latest publication from the Nguyen, Caldas and Rueda labs. This was a massive effort from a fantastic team and we’re grateful to everyone on the paper for their work on this project! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115699 In this paper we used expressed lentiviral barcoding to track the clonal growth of over 20,000 single-cell-derived clones in 110 xenografts…
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Welcome to the Nguyen lab, Dr. Sahil Sharma!
We welcomed Dr. Sahil Sharma as the newest addition to the Nguyen lab with our first lab retreat! Dr. Sharma comes to us after completing a PhD in Experimental Medicine at McGill University with expertise in cell signaling, molecular biology and RNA biology. His postdoctoral project will focus on developing functional genomics approaches with CRISPR…
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Dr. Sarah Kronheim receives the Research Training Award from the Canadian Cancer Society!
Congratulations to Sarah on this award for her project “Identifying cells inside breast tumours which drive chemotherapy resistance”. With funding from the Canadian Cancer Society, Sarah is researching why some cells within breast tumours respond differently to chemotherapies. If successful, this project could lead to new ways of targeting breast cancer cells that are resistant…
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Congratulations Hayley!
Heejin Hayley Shin is a PhD student in the Nguyen lab who was awarded the MBP Excellence UTF scholarship. This is funded by an endowment created by Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, the Province of Ontario and the University of Toronto. Congratulations Hayley, way to go!
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TFRI 10th annual scientific meeting
Dr. Nguyen presents at the Terry Fox Research Institute 10th annual scientific meeting in Toronto, Canada in a plenary session in honour of the late Dr. Connie Eaves. Dr. Eaves was internationally recognised as a pioneer in the field of stem cell biology. Her work developing robust quantitative assays to measure stem cell activity led…
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