
+ 2025
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,
- Hai Dang received EvansMDS Young Investigator award

