Best part of #ASCO24 is spotlighting and encouraging our next generation of clinical investigators and cancer scientists. 👇🏻 The kids are OK. 👌🏻 UF Health Cancer Center UF Hematology/Oncology Fellowship FLORIDA 🐊

The first of many successful ASCO meetings for you Dr. Jang! Can’t wait!! 👍🏻👏🏻🥹 #ASCO24 UF Health Cancer Institute

Great catching up with UF Hematology/Oncology Fellowship and faculty at #ASCO24!

One year ago, the UF Health Cancer Center achieved designation from National Cancer Institute. Since then, the center has significantly increased #cancer research funding, strengthened infrastructure to translate discoveries and much more. Check out 10 key achievements: go.ufl.edu/2n2fdc6

We recently had the honor to host Nicole de Lara Puente, CEO of Live Like Bella® Childhood Cancer Foundation! She got to meet and visit with grant recipients and tour the Adam Michael Rosen Neuro-Oncology Laboratories. Thank you, Live Like Bella, for supporting innovative #cancer research at FLORIDA!

Congratulations to UF Health Cancer Center member Richard Bennett, Ph.D., of UF Medicine, who has received a competitive R50 Research Specialist Award from National Cancer Institute to support cancer epigenetics research in the Jonathan Licht, MD lab. Read more: go.ufl.edu/5xufxz8

UF Health Cancer Center researchers have discovered an important role of a protein in regulating genes that affect the immune system response to multiple myeloma. In our latest Research Snapshot, read more about the new study published in ᅟᅟ ᅟ: go.ufl.edu/1vowpyz

A research team led by the UF Health Cancer Center has discovered a novel crosstalk between epigenetic dysregulation and metabolism in multiple myeloma. The research was published recently in @BloodJournal. Read more in our latest Research Snapshot: go.ufl.edu/0926ii0

So proud of Dr. Tucker, leader of the UF Health Cancer Institute Community-Partnered Cancer Disparities Research Collaborative, for this recognition of a lifetime of work to end health disparities.

Heme malignancies dinner at Cosme, one of the favorite restaurants in the City! Uli Steidl Adolfo Ferrando , Uli Steidl, Ross Levine and Jonathan Licht, MD #leukemia

I am honored to be celebrating our selection as 2023 AAAS Fellows with UF Health Cancer Center member Linda B. Cottler at the new fellow forum today in Washington, D.C.! #AAASFellow

Our paper on how tumor suppressor KDM6A controls MHC-I and II expression in multiple myeloma cells is out in print in @BloodJournal. KDM6A loss can be amelriotaed by treatment of cells with an HDAC3 inhibitor, restoring MHC expression: ashpublications.org/blood/article/…

Delighted to be gathering today with our entire UF Health Cancer Institute membership for a productive day of center updates, research program breakouts, goal setting, networking, and more!

I was honored to participate in the International Workshop on High-Risk Multiple Myeloma last week in Charleston, SC. The workshop brought together leading myeloma experts to share the latest advances in high-risk multiple myeloma.

Thank you to the Jacksonville Jaguars for supporting #cancer awareness by honoring cancer survivors at the crucial catch game yesterday in Jacksonville! #CrucialCatch Learn more about these brave survivors: jaguars.com/news/jaguars-s…

We are so proud to launch the UF Health Cancer Institute Mobile Cancer Screening Connector to address the #cancer needs of the communities we serve in North Central Florida and beyond, bringing vital cancer screening directly to people right in their own communities: go.ufl.edu/ka8glse

My office got ducked! It's a fundraiser for the Phoebe Louise Dooley Foundation. Mark your calendar for its Be Hope Gala on Jan. 25! The event raises money to support pediatric #cancer families and brain tumor researchers at FLORIDA and UF Health. Learn more: bit.ly/4fmiDc4

Proud of two of my exceptional undergraduate students Rishika Cherukuru and Lauren Hellwege for presenting their #cancer research yesterday at the 2024 FLORIDA Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium at the Reitz Union! Learn more about our lab at licht.cancer.ufl.edu

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I am excited to announce that after a decade of service to the U of Florida during which the UF Health Cancer Center received NCI designation, in January 2026 I will be assuming the role of President and Chief Scientific Office of the Van Andel Institute (VAI) vai.org/article/eminen…