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Peng V. Wu, MD, PhD

@pengvwu.bsky.social

Asst Prof @ Cincinnati Children’s | pediatric oncologist & physician-scientist studying tumorigenesis in the developing liver | https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/research/divisions/o/oncology/labs/wu

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Peng V. Wu, MD, PhD@pengvwu.bsky.social · 12mo ago

My lab is looking for a postdoc to take the lead in our efforts to understand how hepatobiliary lineage programs and growth signals in the developing liver promote tumorigenesis. Please share and reach out if interested - cincinnatichildrens.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careersatcin...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Oncology

There is an immediate opening for a motivated postdoctoral research fellow in oncology research. The Wu Lab in the Division of Oncology seeks to understand how tumors initiate and grow during embryoni...

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Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is a brilliant piece, with much to tell us about society, science, the shifting meaning of race, and so much more--well worth a read 🧪

In 1928, none of this matters to anyone. The extract from Long’s text that is used to advertise and explain Williams’s picture is a racist diatribe. It makes fun of a Black man presuming to dress as a gentleman, or behaving as a scholar, or trying to discuss geometry. It scoffs that ‘African’ and ‘Negro’ brains simply couldn’t cope with abstract mathematical problems: attempting to understand such things would only drive them mad. When Long made these assertions, in 1774, they had been controversial: he was himself pushing back against growing sentiments about the equal humanity of other-skinned people. But by 1928, at the zenith of empire, scientific racism has carried the day in England. No one bats an eyelid. They look at this painting and see what Long wanted them to see: a ridiculous figure, a Black man pretending to be an intellectual.
Caleb Crain@calebcrain.bsky.social · 2y ago

A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.

Peng V. Wu, MD, PhD@pengvwu.bsky.social · 2y ago

My graduate advisor was one of the second round of Pioneers in 2005, around when I was deciding to join her lab - interesting back story I didn’t know.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

PIONEERS When I assumed the position as Director of NIGMS in 2003, Dr. Zerhouni's project for stimulating activities across NIH, The NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, was under active development. The Roadmap included a range of different funding opportunities. 1/n www.science.org/content/arti...

Peng V. Wu, MD, PhD@pengvwu.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy to be here & share our work on hepatoblastoma - using transcriptomics and patient-derived tumoroids to identify embryonic biliary transcription factor SOX4 as a modifier of Wnt activation & proliferation - published today in #NatComms @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A developmental biliary lineage program cooperates with Wnt activation to promote cell proliferation in hepatoblastoma - Nature Communications

Epigenetic causes of intra-tumoural heterogeneity are crucial in paediatric cancers with low mutation rates, such as hepatoblastoma. Here, the authors characterise transcriptional heterogeneity in hep...

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