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Leveraging an artificial intelligence algorithm created by Dr. Heng's team to analyze breast tissue composition—the relative amounts of breast epithelium, fibrous stroma, and fat—the findings suggest that gender-affirming testosterone therapy may decrease the breast cancer risk for trans masculine...

Dr. Heng has been selected to participate in the 2025 SGM Cancer Curriculum Advances Research Excellence (CARE) Workshop in Denver, CO. She will also present relevant basic cancer research that she is leading at the workshop.

Dr. Heng will be presenting, "Plasma miRNAs associated with cisplatin sensitivity in breast cancer." at the 2025 Harvard Institute for RNA Medicine (HiRM) seminar series on Tuesday, February 18th at 3 pm.

Dr. Heng will be a keynote speaker at AI Club's annual Research Symposium. https://corp.aiclub.world/2025-student-research-symposium

Dr Heng was invited to host Reddit Wednesday AMA about her research study titled “Whole Blood Gene Expression Profile Associated with Spontaneous Preterm Birth in Women with Threatened Preterm Labor” in PLOS One.

Dr Heng is a recipient of a 2016 WICR Scholar Award at the American Association for Cancer Research. She will present at an AACR minisymposium about her work, "M olecular analyses of histopathologic morphologic features in breast cancer".

Venkat had a Summer Internship with Dr Heng in 2016. His project led him to become a Siemens Foundation 2016 SemiFinalist and today, Venkat is named as a Regeneron STS 2017 Scholar! Great job and congratulations, Venkat!

Congratulations to Katherine for reaching the 2017 Siemens Foundation National Finals - whose project is tied for third place. What an amazing achievement!

Congratulations to Jimmy Lin, for being the Top 300 Regeneron STS 2018 Scholar!

Congratulations to Katherine for winning first place in the RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category at the Synopsys Science Fair in California with her clear cell renal cell carcinoma project last Summer.