Associate Professor & CPRIT scholar @MDAndersonNews studying stress responses in tumor microenvironment and anti-tumor immunity.

Joined September 2020
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20 Nov 2024
Many congratulations to @LV_Xiangdong who has been awarded the CPRIT scholar award to set up his own lab at @UTHealthHouston! He is amazing!
20 Nov 2024
BREAKING NEWS: #CPRIT approved $89 million in grants to advance the state’s fight against cancer, including CPRIT Scholar recruitment awards, evidence-based prevention programs and innovative companies developing new cancer drugs and treatments.  READ: ow.ly/m9Qg50Ub8qi
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Thank you @theNAMedicine @MDAndersonNews and all who contribute to our mission to #endcancer - patients and families, care teams, researchers and supporters worldwide. Honored to continue this important work together
Jennifer A. Wargo (@jenwargomd) of @MDAndersonNews was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2023. Congratulations and welcome! #NAMclassof2023
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16 Oct 2024
Thanks #JPAI @JimAllisonPhD @PamSharmaMDPhD @DraettaG Rugang Zhang and @NCICancerBio for support!
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Kudos to the amazing trainees @LongyongX @FanglueP and all fantastic collaborators!
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Inhibiting IRE1 RNase in TP53-mutant TNBC allows taxane to be highly immunogenic, triggering dsRNA-ZBP1-NLRP3-GSDMD pyroptotic signaling cascade, turning PD-L1-negative cold tumors hot, and conferring these cold tumors hypersensitivity to PD-1 inhibitor.
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Here are 10 things to know about our Dr. Jim Allison, who was recently elected to the 2024 National Inventors Hall of Fame. @JimAllisonPhD @InventorsHOF #EndCancer
#NIHF2024 Inductee @JimAllisonPhD has a deep appreciation for endeavors that enrich life. His love of music has led him to play in a blues band composed of @sitcancer members & immunologists or oncologists, called The Checkpoints. @MDAndersonNews bit.ly/44nkB72
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The Allison Institute will be hosting a Next Gen Colloquium in Houston ahead of SITC in November. Details in photo. Please sign up or contact me with any questions.
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Recruiting faculty to the Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston! Recruiting broadly in cancer and cell biology. Apply by Nov 1, 2023. @BCMhouston nature.com/naturecareers/job… bcm.edu/departments/molecula…
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19 Sep 2023
Wonderful session on #UPR and #ISR. Learned a lot from the amazing talks from @ACKoongMDPhD @Eric_Chevet @apoptosislab !
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7 Sep 2023
Happy to share our latest work in collaboration with @HaoqiangY published in @ScienceMagazine today: Proteostasis network reprogramming is a key convergence point of multiple KRAS inhibitor resistance mechanisms. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Kudos to @LV_Xiangdong @XuanLu11447800 and all authors for the fantastic teamwork. Thanks @NCICancerBio for supporting this work.
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9 Jul 2021
Happy to share our latest work with Stanley Adoro on identifying #ERAD as a critical protein quality control checkpoint for T cell development. @eLife @bcmhouston doi.org/10.7554/eLife.69975

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FEATURED Review in this month's issue: JR Cubillos-Ruiz @JCubRuiz & X Chen @XiChenLab discuss how #ERstress can influence pro-tumoural features of cancer cells & reprogram the function of #immunecells, creating targetable vulnerabilities. go.nature.com/2UKRrMo @NatResCancer
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6 Oct 2020
Join us @bcmhouston. Fantastic department with incredible environment and support to start your lab!
Recruiting faculty @bcmhouston! Multiple assistant prof positions in the MCB dept AND the Stem Cell Cntr! Looking for expertise in #epigenetics #generegulation #cellbio #synbio #organoids #stemcellsbit.ly/2HyoOhY bit.ly/363q46V Why consider BCM? Read on.
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22 Sep 2020
Thank you @Goodell_Lab ! So fortunate to be in the amazing MCB department @bcmhouston with enormous support from Peggy and incredible colleagues!
Please give a warm Twitter welcome to @XiChenLab who just joined. -Fantastic faculty member in MCB department @bcmhouston. Beautiful new @NatureCellBio paper on protein QC in #HSCs! Congrats!
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Thank you @SignerLab for writing a wonderful and insightful News & Views highlighting our paper @NatureCellBio ! We love the title "ERADicating stem cells from their niche"!
ERADicating stem cells from their niche. Our News & Views on exquisite new work from @XiChenLab in @NatureCellBio on how proteostasis regulation by the ERAD pathway influences the interaction of HSCs with their perivascular niche in the bone marrow. rdcu.be/b7vFR
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