January 30, 2025: Tran lab and its collaborators were awarded a $6M grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine to develop a first-of-its-kind gene therapy approach of targeting the GBM state.
KSOM News Release: https://keck.usc.edu/news/new-grant-funds-first-of-its-kind-gene-therapy-to-treat-aggressive-brain-cancer/
Dec 6, 2024: Dr. Tran served as course director and presented at the 2nd Annual Southern California Brain Tumor Conference hosted by Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA.
Jan 18-21st, 2025: Karolina Warzecha attended the Neural Influence on Cancer, Tumor Microenvironment and Cancer Immunology Keystone Symposium in Banff, AB, Canada.
December 2, 2024: Dr. Tran presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Neuro-Oncology, Ise-Shima, Japan.
Late Nov 2024: Tarun Mahesh joined the Tran Lab as a Masters Student in the Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Program at Keck School of Medicine of USC.
November 6 2024: Dr. Tran presented the 2THETOP data at the Pre-conference Press Program at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC).
November 9, 2024: Dr. Tran presented the 2THETOP data at the 2024 Annual Meeting of SITC.
October 1st 2024: Our paper “The EP3-ZNF488 Axis Promotes Self-Renewal of Glioma Stem-like Cells to Induce Resistance to Tumor Treating Fields” is published online in Cancer Research. Congratulations to first authors DJ and Son and all co-authors!
September 9th 2024: Farjana Ahmed, Ph.D. joined the Tran Lab as a new Post Doctoral Scholar
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August 1st 2024: Using AI, USC researchers pioneer a potential new immunotherapy approach for treating glioblastoma
August 21st 2024: Xiaoxu Xu, MS joined the lab as research technician.
July 25th 2024: Our paper “Machine Learning–Directed Conversion of Glioblastoma Cells to Dendritic Cell–like Antigen-Presenting Cells as Cancer Immunotherapy” is published online in Cancer Immunology Research. Congratulations to first authors Tianyi and Son and all co-authors!
June 2024: Karolina Warzecha attended the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) International Convention in San Diego.
May 2024: Karolina Warzecha joined the Tran Research Lab as a Ph.D. student.
April 23rd, 2024: Samuel Amponsah-Effah successfully completed his written and oral qualifying exam.
April 20th, 2024: Lab Members attended the 2024 Southern California Brain Tumor Walk & Race at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, CA.
April 5th, 2024: Samuel Amponsah-Effah presented his research on engineered immune cells at a USC Neuro-Oncology Disease Affinity Group (DAG) meeting.
March 27th, 2024: Dr. Tran presented at the 5th Annual Glioblastoma Drug Development Summit. Boston, MA.
Dec 8th, 2023: Dr. Tran participated as a speaker in the 1st Annual Southern California Brain Tumor Conference hosted by Keck Medicine of USC.
Nov 1st-5th, 2023: Dongjiang Chen, M.D., M.S and Tianyi Liu, M.D. presented research orally and in poster at Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer’s 38th Annual Meeting & Pre-Conference Programs in San Diego.
Nov 15th-19th, 2023: Dr. Tran presented research at the Society for NeuroOncology’s 28th Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C., Canada
November 15-19, 2023: Dr. Tran cochaired a lunch session on “Breaking Barriers: The Evidence for Hyperthermia’s Therapeutic Disruption of the Blood Brain Barrier and the Outlook on Synergistic Immune Benefits in the Brain” at the 28th Annual Scientific Meeting of SNO, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
September 16, 2023: Dr. Tran presented at the Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Society for Neuro-Oncology.
July 2023: Samuel Amponsah-Effah joined the Tran Research Lab as a Ph.D. student.
July 11-16th, 2023: Nathan Thai attended the 2023 Introductory Course in Immunology at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center in Los Angeles, CA.
Dr. Tran presented at the Leadership Panel at Frontiers in Neuro-Oncology 2023, Jackson Hole, WY, USA.
November 17-20, 2022: Dr. Tran co-chaired Basic Science Session IV at the 27th Annual Scientific Meeting of SNO, Tampa, FL.
October 9-13, 2022: Dr. Tran presented a plenary address at the The 4th World Congress on Electroporation & Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, Medicine, Food and Environmental Technologies in Copenhagen, Denmark.
March 24-27, 2022: 2THETOP Abstract received Top 10 Best Abstract and Dr. Tran presented at the 6th Quadrennial Meeting of the World Federation of Neuro-Oncology Societies, Seoul, South Korea
November 18-21 2021: Dr. Tran received Excellence in Adult Basic Science Award for work on the GBM state as a therapeutic target at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology in Boston, MA.