October 2024 Congrats to Lucy for her proposal being selected to be funded by NU URG & IIN fellowship! Very proud of you! 

September 2024 Another huge thanks to the American Brain Tumor Association for granting us the ABTA Research Collaboration Award!!! With the kind support, we are delighted to work with the research team in the University of California San Francisco for myeloid metabolism and imaging.

September 2024 Huge thanks to the American Brain Tumor Association for awarding the ABTA Discovery Grant to support our mRNA therapeutics development for overcoming GBM therapy resistance!!!

July 2024 We are very grateful for receiving the CHI Collaborative Pilot Award to support our research work with Miska group on myeloid cell metabolism in gliomas!!!

June 2024 Congrats to Xiaoyang for being interviewed for her excellence in communicating science into the public, SO PROUD OF YOU!!! Best of luck for the next stop of your career at Eli Lilly!!! 

June 2024 Congrats to Hanchen & Xiaoyang for graduation from the graduate program at NU!!!

March 2024 Congrats to Xiaoyang for winning the Best Oral Presentation Award at the MBP Research Symposium at Northwestern University. You are our STAR!!!  

February 2024 Dr. Zhang presented recent research work at Brain Tumor SPORE meeting at MD Anderson Cancer Center. 

February 2024 Huge congrats to Caylee for being accepted by Northwestern DGP PhD program and awarded a two-year Ryan Fellowship!!! We are so proud of you and looking forward to your contribution to brain tumor and nanotech research community!!!

February 2024 Dr. Zhang was invited to present at the TEAM program at Lurie Cancer Center of Northwestern University. 

February 2024 Dr. Zhang was invited to visit the University of Illinois Chicago College of Pharmacy and give a talk about nano-hijacking myeloid cells for brain tumor immunotherapy.

November 2023 Our invited review/commentary article on GLUT3 regulates alternative macrophage signaling through a glucose transport–independent role was published in Journal of Clinical Investigation.

September 2023  Welcome Drs. Jiawei Huo and Jianzhong Zhang to join our group as Postdoctoral Fellows. We are fortunate and delighted to have both of you in our team!!! Teamwork makes dream work!!! 

July 2023 We are highly delighted and grateful for being selected for an NIH/NCI R37 MERIT Award to support our research on new nanotherapeutics targeting of immunosuppressive myeloid cells in brain tumors. We are working hard to make our own contribution to the brain tumor research community!

July 2023 We are grateful for receiving a Northwestern Brain SPORE Developmental Research Program award to support our work on developing new nanotherapeutics for targeting myeloid immune checkpoints to potentiate anti-glioma immunotherapy.

July 2023  Welcome our new NU graduate students Hanchen Lin and Xiaoyang Chen !!! Looking forward to all your achievements. 

June 2023 Congrats to Caylee and Hanxiang for graduation from NU!!! We can all see your bright future!!!

April 2023 Big congrats to Taewon & Jason for being awarded the NU Undergraduate Research Grants to support their projects on identifying & targeting key enzymes that regulate myeloid metabolism to overcome immunosuppression in GBM.

March 2023 Big congrats to Tom, our brilliant high-school researcher, for being accepted by the undergraduate programs of Yale and Penn. We are so proud of you!!! 

March 2023 Our research article on nano-therapeutic hijacking of tumor-associated myeloid cells within brain tumor microenvironment was published in Nature Communications. Congrats to our group members and long-term collaborators!!!

January 2023 Our review article on nanoparticles harnessing myeloid cells for brain tumor-targeted delivery and immunomodulation was published in Materials Matter. Congrats to Abby and Hanxiao (Lee-Chang lab)!

July 2022 We are grateful for being awarded an NCI R01 grant to support our work on therapeutic targeting and reprogramming of immunosuppressive tumor-associated myeloid cells in GBM. We are dedicated to make our own contributions to the brain tumor research community!

July 2022 We are grateful for receiving a Northwestern Brain SPORE CEP award to support our work on genetic modulation of the immunosuppressive brain tumor microenvironment.

June 2022 Welcome Caylee Silvers and Hanxiang Wang to join us as graduate students. Looking forward to working together as a team!

June 2022 Our group website was launched!!!