Best Clinical Paper 2020
“Testosterone Therapy and Breast Histopathological features in Transgender Individuals”, published in Modern Pathology, has been selected as Best Clinical Paper 2020 by the BIDMC Cancer Research Institute.
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USCAP 2022 Meeting
Dr. G Baker's abstract, "Intraepidermal glands in the nipple-areolar complex of transmasculine individuals", has been selected for presentation at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) 2022 meeting. Congratulations!
NUS ncRNA Symposium and Liquid Biopsy Summit 2022
Dr. Heng was one of the invited international speakers at the National University of Singapore non-codingRNA symposium 2022. The title of her talk was, "Plasma miRNAs associated with cisplatin sensitivity in breast cancer." https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/core-facilities/noncoding-rna-ncrna/events-w...
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Current Title/Affiliation: Instructor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School Associated Scientist, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Member, Dana Farber Harvard Cancer Center (Breast Cancer Program) Education: B.Biomed Sc, Medical Laboratory Science (University of Tasmania, TAS, Australia) B.Biomed...
About the Team
Our translational medicine team integrates various types of data (clinical, epidemiological, pathology, genomics, proteomics etc.) to 1) investigate risk factors for breast cancer, 2) discover molecular biomarkers or signatures that can be translated into clinically-relevant modalities, and 3)...
Summer Intern Projects
Year Student State Grade Mentor(s) Project Title 2017 Rinni Bhansali NY 10 Frank Slack/Lisa Walker Insight into the function of miR155 and its host gene, BIC, in diffuse large B cell lymphoma Jerry Han MA 10 Frank Slack/Leni Jacob Characterizing the role of non-coding RNA, NBR2, in regulating...
Harvard Medical School Pathology Retreat
Dr. Heng represented BIDMC Dept of Pathology at the Harvard-wide retreat, and presented her research titled, "Transgender breast cancer risk and treatment
BIDMC Research Retreat 2024
Dr Heng will be an invited panelist for the session, “The clinical and scientific promise of machine learning and artificial intelligence”, at the BIDMC Research Retreat in Fall 2024. She will talk about the machine learning methods she used to create prognostic signatures, as well as the artificial...
Publications
Extracellular vesicle-encapsulated miR-30c-5p reduces aging-related liver fibrosis.
Rodrigues, Alice Cristina, Yujing J Heng, and Frank J Slack. 2024. “Extracellular Vesicle-Encapsulated MiR-30c-5p Reduces Aging-Related Liver Fibrosis.”. Aging Cell 23: e14310.