My friend and colleague GutkindLab is presenting his new and super exciting data on oral and other head and neck cancers proposing new and effective targets! At the 2024 ACS Research ACS JILER Professors & Fellows Conference #DoNotSmoke

Thank you to Prof. Tasuku Honjo, Prof. Sidonia Fagarasan, and Prof.Masatoshi Hagiwara for the honor of being part of the symposium celebrating the ground breaking opening of the Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology(CCII) at Kyoto University! Kyoto University UC San Diego Health Moores Cancer Center

Thank you to all the ugly sweater competition participants! GutkindLab winner of the ugliest sweater at this year's Department of Pharmacology, UCSD holiday party!

Thank you to my research team for an excellent and productive Gutkind lab retreat! Team photo from a wonderful location next to the ocean! Department of Pharmacology, UCSD

Sana Karam, Nir Ben Chetrit, GutkindLab, Robert Saddawi-Konefka, and Quynh Thu Le discussed "Nodal Management With Immune Checkpoint Therapy" in a plenary at the AACR Conference on Translating Targeted Therapies in Combination with Radiotherapy. #AACRradiation25 Sana Karam, MD, PhD

Nearly 60,000 people are diagnosed with oral cancer in the U.S. every year. 📊 MCC's GutkindLab uncovers how healthy stem cells transform into #oralcancer in the following study: bit.ly/4hKj0hm.🔬

Melanoma resists BRAF-targeted treatments, but combining avutometinib with FAK inhibitors may help overcome it. MCC's AD of Basic Science, GutkindLab, explores this in a recent Cancer Cell publication: bit.ly/4bm57Ut.

✍️#Melanoma Combination therapy overcomes treatment resistance in #melanoma 📢Interview with GutkindLab Simone Lubrano (UC San Diego). 👉bioworld.com/articles/71755… Researchers uncover a key mechanism underlying the treatment resistance of melanoma with the BRAF V600E mutation.

Congratulations to Dr. Abraham Palmer for his 2025 UCSD Department of Pharmacology Distinguished Alumni Award! Thank you so much for an amazing lecture and discussions with our faculty, alumni, and trainees! GutkindLab

Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Hoang, for successfully defending his thesis! UCSD Biomed Sciences PhD Program Department of Pharmacology, UCSD

So nice to have Simone Lubrano visit us!

Please consider donating to our UCSD Pharm Team for the Curebound Cancer Challenge! We have a stellar team, that will ride the 25 and 55 miles course, as well as run the Curebound 10k. Every dollar raised funds innovative cancer research! do.nr/j9516w9f via DonorDrive

Thanks to Cancer Research UK and American Cancer Society for the invitation to present at The Cancer Prevention Research Conference in London,UK, our team's work on metformin for oral cancer precision prevention! And making new friends and developing new global collaborations! UC San Diego Health Moores Cancer Center Department of Pharmacology, UCSD

Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Clubb, for successfully defending her thesis! UCSD Biomed Sciences PhD Program Department of Pharmacology, UCSD

We are so proud of our CREATE summer student Hannah Broyles (SDSU Undergraduate) for her amazing presentation on "Targeting the Hippo Pathway for Therapy in Head and Neck Cancer"! UC San Diego Health Moores Cancer Center

Time flies! We celebrated our 10-Year lab anniversary last week UC San Diego UC San Diego School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology, UCSD UC San Diego Health Moores Cancer Center! I want to thank each of my prior and current lab members for making this dream possible! Also to the UC San Diego scientific community and cherished colleagues!

Congrats to DrCongFu ! Wonderful to collaborate with Rob Manguso on in vivo CRISPR of epigenetic targets study in #HNSCC models Nature Communications Kathleen Yates IOTN Moonshot Thanks also to GutkindLab Robert S-K !! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congratulations to Angelyn and Karina, our amazing STEPP-ON-UP postbaccs at the UC San Diego Health Moores Cancer Center , who completed their program today! moorescancercenter.ucsd.edu/education/trai…

Happy Halloween from the Gutkind Lab! GutkindLab

Our 2025 Scientific Retreat reiterates UC San Diego Health Moores Cancer Center commitment to collaboration and innovation in advancing cancer research throughout the catchment area and beyond. vimeo.com/1137798687?sha…