Power2LeadHER Podcast Interview
Dr. Heng participated in a Power2LeadHER podcast, hosted by Ankita Sundar - a high school sophmore, to talk about her career in academic research. What an honor!
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NCI Health Disparity Workshop
Dr. Heng will be speaking at a health disparity workshop organized by the NCI Center for Cancer Research and the Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics. She will present her group's multidisciplinary research on transgender breast cancer risk and treatment outcomes.
Applications of Medical AI Workshop, MICCAI
Dr Baker's abstract, " Effect of testosterone therapy on quantitative breast lobular atrophy in transmasculine individuals" has been accepted for a Poster presentation at the Applications of Medical AI Workshop at Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Meeting, Singapore...
Summer Internship
*****NOTE: THIS PROGRAM IS CLOSED***** This official BIDMC High School Summer Research Program allows the students to experience scientific research and gain generic skills. All students receive a stipend during this Program. You can read about this program here. Take a look at our past students'...
HiRM RNA Technologies Showcase
Dr. Heng hosted Dr. Vikrant Kumar, Head of Bioinformatics at Mirxes, for a Harvard Institute of RNA Medicine (HiRM) RNA technologies showcase. Dr. Kumar's talk was about spatially resolved sub-cellular transcriptomics (Stereo-seq) and its applications. How advances in generating high resolution...
HiRM Symposium 2024
Dr. Heng will be presenting a poster, "Plasma miRNAs associated with cisplatin sensitivity in breast cancer" at the 2024 Harvard Institute of RNA Medicine Symposium.
Associations of stem cell markers CD44, CD24 and ALDH1A1 with mammographic breast density in women with benign breast biopsies.
Yaghjyan, Lusine, Yujing J Heng, Gabrielle M Baker, Divya Murthy, Matt B Mahoney, Bernard Rosner, and Rulla M Tamimi. 2024. “Associations of Stem Cell Markers CD44, CD24 and ALDH1A1 With Mammographic Breast Density in Women With Benign Breast Biopsies.”. Br J Cancer 131 (2): 325-33.
The Festival of Genomics & BioData, Boston
Dr. Heng has been invited to join the roundtable panel discussion, "Driving Innovation in Precision Medicine for Broader Implementation" at the Festival of Genomics & BioData in Boston.
The breast tumor immune microenvironment of DNA double-strand break repair pathogenic variant carriers is enriched with tumor associated macrophages
Kelly, R L, Yuxi Liu, A R Harris, C K Peng, Yujing J Heng, G M Baker, D G Stover, R M Tamimi, and P Kraft. 2025. “The Breast Tumor Immune Microenvironment of DNA Double-Strand Break Repair Pathogenic Variant Carriers Is Enriched With Tumor Associated Macrophages”. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 34 (6): 868–874.
Regular aspirin use, breast tumor characteristics and long-term breast cancer survival
Peng, C, T Wang, MD Holmes, WY Chen, KD Brantley, PA Le, YJ Heng, et al. 2025. “Regular Aspirin Use, Breast Tumor Characteristics and Long-Term Breast Cancer Survival”. Npj Breast Cancer.