+ 2025

June 24,

  • Welcome Hannah Terry as Researcher I in the lab.

June 18,

  • Our paper conducted by Dr. Chiraphapphaiboon in collaboration with Dr. Jutin Taylor at University of Miami is now our in Cancer Research! Congratulations June! See Newspress from UMN Medical School here!

June 1,

  • Welcome An Nguyen as LSSURP student in the lab.

May 22,

  • Congrats to Niraja Soman for completing her thesis defense from MPAT MS - Track A program.

May 1,

  • Congrats to Dr. Antonarakis on our collaboative work published in Clinical Cancer Research.

April 8,

  • Congrats to Dr. Kacey Bui for completing her thesis defense from MSTP MD/PhD program.

February 25,

  • Congrats to Dr. Kim on our collaboative work published in Cancer Gene Therapy.

February 1,

  • Drs. Allred and Nguyen received the CRTI award from the Masonic Cancer Center.

January 9,

  • Congrats to Maxwell Bannister on his work in the lab published in HGG Advances.

+ 2024

November 1,

  • Welcome Nandini Ramesh from MPAT MS program to Dang lab!

October 19,

  • Members of Nguyen lab presented research at Rustbelt RNA conference, Columbus, Ohio.

September 16,

  • Dr. Nguyen presented research at the Gutenberg Workshop RNase H 2024: Structures, Functions and Disorders, Germany.

September 1,

  • Dr. Nguyen received 5-year funding from NIH/NCI as Co-investigator with Dr. Stanley Lee at Frud Hutchinson Cancer Centerl.

June 20,

  • Dr. Nguyen presented research at the GRC Mutagenesis: Causes and Consequences of Mutagenesis Across Species, Gordon Research Conference, USA

June 1,

  • Welcome Kali McDonough and Suli Fakunle as LSSURP students in the lab.
  • Drs. Nguyen and Campbell received 5-year R25 funding from NIH/NHLBI for the Summer Research at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

April 04,

  • Dr. Nguyen presented research at the PARP Family and ADP-ribosylation, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA.

March 19,

  • Dr. Nguyen presented research at the CMB Short Course Seminar, University of Michigan Genetics Training Program, Ann Harbor, Michigan, United States.

February 15,

  • Our paper is officially in press in Cancer Research.

February 1,

  • Drs. Nguyen and Temiz received Pre-R01 Brainstorm award from the Masonic Cancer Center.

+ 2023

November 1,

  • Niraja Soman from MPAT MS program officially joined Nguyen lab. Welcome!

October 27,

  • Members of Nguyen lab presented research at Rustbelt RNA conference, East Lansing, Michigan.

September 1,

  • Dr. Nguyen received the Edward P. Evans Foundation - Discovery Research Grant.

June 30,

  • Congrats to Dr. Drake on our collaboative work published in Frontiers Oncology.

June 16,

  • Dr. Nguyen presented research at the Barts RNA Cancer Symposium, Barts Cancer Institute, UK.

June 5,

  • Dr. Nguyen presented research at the FEBS PARP 2023 conference in Croatia.

June 1,

  • Welcome Marrisa Bonilla, Christopher Peters, Tommy Pan, and Hannah Terry as Summer Undergraduate Researchers in Nguyen lab.

March 21,

  • Congrats to Dr. Fouquerel at University of Pittsburg on our collaboative work published in Nucleic Acids Research.

March 27,

  • Dr. Nguyen presented research at the British Columbia Cancer Research Center, Canada.

March 17,

  • Dr. Nguyen presented research at University of British Columbia, Canada.

+ 2022

December 19,

  • Dang Lab is expanding! Moving day to new lab in Dept. of Pharmacology home in Nils Hasselmo building.

December 1,

  • Ya-Chu Chang joins Dang lab today as a new postdoctoral research fellow. Welcome Ya-Chu!!!
  • Kacey Bui (MD/PhD MSTP) graduate student joins Dang lab today. She will be co-advised by Drs. Tolar and Bielinsky. Welcome Kacey!!!

November 2,

  • Nguyen lab turns 3 today!!!

November 1,

  • Congrats to Dr. Bilbao on our collaboration work published in Chemical Research in Toxicology.

October 13-14,

  • Dr. Nguyen presented research at the Edward P. Evans Foundation - MDS Research Summit, Nashville, TN.

September 12,

  • Pedro Silva (MPAT PhD student) begins his first rotation in the lab. Welcome Pedro!

September 6-9,

  • Dr. Nguyen presented research at the RNase H 2022 meeting in Cambridge, Maryland.

September 2,

  • Welcome Jennifer Yoo to Dang Lab as a Researcher 1.

August 29,

  • Thu Nguyen (MCDB&G PhD student) begins her first rotation in the lab. Welcome Thu!

July 10-15,

  • Dr. Nguyen presented research at the Gordon Research Conference - Genomic Instability, DNA Repair and Human Diseases in Ventura, CA.

July 1,

  • Dr. Nguyen received the 2022 American Association for Cancer Research to Further Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Cancer Research, which is supported by Genetech. shorturl.at/sMQR3

June 27,

  • Ben Hanson (BMBB PhD student) begins his first summer rotation in the lab. Welcome Ben!

June 6,

  • Congratulations to Dawei Zong for completing his M.S. of Pharmacology degree! Best wishes on your PhD program at University of Georgia, Dept. of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences!

June 1,

  • Welcome Pilar Saavedra-Weis from Bowdoin College to our lab for Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program!

May 20,

  • Dr. Nguyen presented research virtually at the AAMDSIF conference - MDS & secondary AML Pathophysiology session.

May 16,

  • Dr. Chiraiphapphaiboon joins Dang lab today as a new postdoctoral research fellow. Welcome June!!!

March 30 - April 2,

  • Dr. Nguyen presented research at The PARP Family & ADP-ribosylation conference at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY.

March 14,

  • The Dang Lab welcomes to a new MPAT students from Department of Pharmacology, Matthew McMahon!

+ 2021

December 10,

  • Dr. Nguyen presented research at American Society of Hematology Annual Conference in Atlanta.
  • Thank you American Society of Hematology for the research highlights. https://bit.ly/3ea7NaZ

October 1,

  • Matthew McMahon (Pharmacology PhD student) and Kyle Richards (BMBB PhD student) start their second rotation in the Dang lab.

September 1,

  • Michael Sausen (Pharmacology PhD student) starts his first rotation in the Dang lab.

July 1,

  • Thank you for research funding from American Society of Hematology Scholar Award and University of Minnesota Clinical & Translational Science Institute KL2 Scholar Award to Dr. Nguyen.

June 30,

  • Congratulations to Zijun Zhang for completing his M.S. of Pharmacology degree! Good luck on your PhD program at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

May 3,

  • Congratulations to Victor Corral (PhD graduate student from Pharmacology) - was selected as a 2021 Advanced Pathways to Research Program Scholar from the UMN Clinical & Translational Science Institute.
  • Congratulations to Maxwell Bannister (undergraduate student) - was award 1) the Barry Goldwater Scholar (national recognition) and 2) the UMN LSSURP program.

March 22,

  • The Dang Lab welcomes to 2 PhD students from Department of Pharmacology, Victor Corral and Silvia Liu!

January 01,

  • The Dang Lab welcomes to MS student Dawei Zong from Department of Pharmacology

+ 2020

November 02,

  • The Dang Lab is 1 year old today

October 05,

  • Where i started my PhD. Today officially became an affiliated Faculty at University of Minnesota Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics.

September 10,

  • The lab is officially up & running. Welcome to my first PhD rotation student, Victor Corral, from the Graduate Program in Pharmacology (GPP) at the University of Minnesota. He's going to be studying R-loop regulation in cancers.

+ 2019

December 6-10,

  • Intensive learning at ASH 2019 conference. Great to meet old and new colleagues as well!

December 3,

  • had a chance to visit and present my research at my alma mater The College of Wooster, Ohio

November 20,

  • Keynote speaker at University of Minnesota 9th Annual CMP Training Program – “Strategies for acquiring an academic position”

November 8,

  • Guest speaker @ INSPIRE Conference 2019, an outreach program with Institute of Engineering in Medicine at the University of Minnesota

November 2,

October 25,

  • Attended Evans Research Summit at Washington University in St. Louis. Great to meet & interact with new colleagues.

October 18,

  • Great to visit my old colleague, Peter Wu from postdoc time at National Taiwan University College of Medicine.

October 05,

  • Visiting faculty and students at Sunway University, Malaysia.

October 04,

  • Meeting with faculty at University of Malaya

October 03,

  • Meeting with faculty and students at Universiti Putra Malaysia

July 01,