Yichi (Tony) Zhang
@tony_zhang_phd
Believer of serendipity in science & life. Canadian, Bball fan. PhD w. Eric Olson @ UTSW, K99 awardee and former Damon Runyon fellow w. Matt Vander Heiden @ MIT
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Happy to announce that I was awarded a pathway to independence award (K99) from the NCI/NIH today to work on studying whole-body metabolism driving cancer cachexia. None of this would be possible without support from @DamonRunyon and mentorship from @Transactivator and mvhlab.
I’m ready for this
Lucky to have had Josh and DJ on my thesis committee, I learned so much from them. This honor is so well deserved! @utswnews
4 HHMI Investigators have been elected to @theNAMedicine! Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Learn how these investigators are advancing our understanding of biology and human health: hhmi.news/4oxodfS…
4 HHMI Investigators have been elected to @theNAMedicine! Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Learn how these investigators are advancing our understanding of biology and human health: hhmi.news/4oxodfS…
Super excited re: first Shendure/Baker Lab collaboration & preprint on a multiplex sequencing-based strategy for screening de novo proteome editors in mammalian cells. Kudos to brilliant Chase Suiter & @Green_Ahn @UWproteindesign on the work! Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Future of Aging Research Mixer 2025 @aginginit signups now open: luma.com/jqx5m2xi
It was such a fun symposium and am honored to be part of this lineage. I'll make sure to pick a better spot in the photo in 10 years 😂
Thanks to everyone for an amazing Myo Life celebration of the 40-year anniversary of the Olson Lab, along with a big birthday. Here's my special song for the occasion, "The Ballad of Myo Life". Rock on! 😎 @UTSWMedCenter
Epic weekend in Dallas celebrating Eric Olson's birthday ➕ 40 years of groundbreaking science at Myo Life 70/40 🥳🎉 An inspiring symposium with 60+ talks from former trainees, capped off with an unforgettable performance by his band🎸🎵 @Transactivator 💃🏼🕺🏼What a legacy 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks to everyone for an amazing Myo Life celebration of the 40-year anniversary of the Olson Lab, along with a big birthday. Here's my special song for the occasion, "The Ballad of Myo Life". Rock on! 😎 @UTSWMedCenter
Happy birthday to the one and only Eric Olson @Transactivator on hosting a scientific symposium, party, and reunion for the Olsonites as only he can. It’s truly an honor and a privilege to be part of this family. Rock on! I can’t wait to see you all again for Myolife 50!
🚨New paper out in Circ Res! Congrats to 1st author DR @OmarBritoStrada & the team👏🏼Here we show DWORF gene therapy boosts cardiac calcium handling, enhances mitochondrial energetics, & protects against heart failure progression🫀💪🏼 Read it here 😍👇🏼 doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRE…
Fantastic. The momentum among private funders to disallow journal fees continues to build. @NIH should follow suit. “In the coming 1-2 years, HHMI will seek to replace APC payments from HHMI lab budgets with centralized support of publisher service fees, including transparent…
Excited to share our new preprint—the main project of my postdoc in the Kaelin lab! Blocking HIF2 doesn’t just slow tumors—it can reverse cachexia and hypercalcemia in kidney cancer. In the OSRC-2 model, HIF2 inhibition restored weight, preserved fat/muscle, and rescued survival.
Molecular subtypes of human skeletal muscle in cancer cachexia nature.com/articles/s4158…
wow. stop what you're doing and read this paper. 🤯cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
Legend David Baltimore died yesterday. He understood the way things should work: "the real contribution of @MIT is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. It takes ideas seriously, but the people are relatively informal. They are not self-aggrandizing the way academics can be.
Congratulations to Eric Olson, Ph.D., founding Chair and Professor of Molecular Biology @UTSWMedCenter, on being selected to receive the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for groundbreaking research into Duchenne muscular dystrophy. bit.ly/46lL9Z8
🔬 Published in Nature Cell Biology, @WalterWChen1 and his collaborators have identified PEX39, a human protein needed for assembling peroxisomes. This is the first such protein discovered in more than 20 years. Read more: bit.ly/4n5wmHs @CRI_UTSW #CellBiology
Great lab bonding at our 2025 lab retreat. A good mix of scientific discussion and lab fun. I'm so grateful for such an inspiring and energetic lab!
Fantastic MVH lab retreat featuring all you can eat buffets, lab FIFA, inspiring talks from Matt and others, s'mores by the firepit, and a suprise DJ set by @EdreesRashan aka Rich Media and MyoDJ. Lab retreats are special because we all learn more about each other as people
JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto. nature.com/naturecareers/… Please repost!
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