Laboratory News
•04/2026: Tao and Faming’s new bioinformatics tool for single-cell survival analysis has been published in Cancer Discovery, and highlighted by both OHSU News and the NIH News release. We are especially honored that Dr. Brian Druker, CEO of the Knight Cancer Institute, contributed a quote to the OHSU story, and Dr. Anthony Letai, Director at the NCI, contributed a quote to the NIH feature. OHSU News, NIH News release.
•04/2026: We are excited to announce that the Xia Lab will be joining the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin in August 2026. This move brings together all the key ingredients for advancing AI in medicine, including world-class engineering and computer science, strong life sciences, and deep integration with Texas’s vibrant biomedical research ecosystem through the CPRIT program.
•04/2026: Congratulations to Xiaofan on a new publication in Cancer Research Communications in collaboration with the Danilov Lab (City of Hope)! This work explores CDK9-targeted therapeutic strategies and their role in cancer progression.
•02/2026: Congratulations to Faming! His single-cell transcriptome atlas of prostate cancer has been selected for an oral presentation in the Minisymposium on Integrative Computational Approaches at the AACR Annual Meeting 2026 in San Diego. In total, our lab will present four posters at the meeting, and we are excited to participate.
•12/2025: Congrates to Xiaofan for successfully passing the pre-qualification exam! Well done!
•11/2025: Ya-Mei’s work on androgen receptor activity and immunity was published in Cancer Research Communications. Congratulations!
•07/2025: Ya-Mei’s work on enzalutamide extreme non-response in prostate cancer was published in npj Precision Oncology. Congratulations!
•06/2025: Canping received a Frohnmayer Hicks Sciarretta Cancer Research Scholar award, which supports outstanding PhD students working in cancer research. Congratulations!
•05/2025: Xinxing and Faming’s paper was accepted by Cell Genomics. We have developed a unified framework, OmicsTweezer, for the deconvolution of bulk RNA-seq, proteomics, and low-resolution spatial omics. Congratulations!
•12/2024: A Multiple PI NCI R01 is funded through the collaboration with the City of Hope!
•12/2024: Yi passed his PhD qualifying exam! Congratulations!
•10/2024: Tao and Xiaofan’s paper was accepted to Immunity & Ageing. We have developed a tool called PhAre to predict physiological ages from single-cell and bulk RNA-seq PBMCs.
•07/2024: Welcome to the four new postdocs joining our lab, each bringing their expertise in mathematics, medicine, electrical engineering and electronic information!
•06/2024: Our work is highlighted by OHSU Research Week!
•06/2024: Canping passed his PhD qualifying exam! Congratulations!
•03/2024: We received a Prostate Cancer Data Science Award!
•01/2024: Honored to receive Silver Family Foundation Faculty Excellence and Innovation Award!