COUP-TFII and AKT are cancer targets pursued by SCBA award winners

Jim Hu; Xiao-Fan Wang

doi:10.1186/2045-3701-4-57

COUP-TFII and AKT are cancer targets pursued by SCBA award winners

Cell Biosci. 2014 Oct 1;4(1):57. doi: 10.1186/2045-3701-4-57. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Jim Hu¹, Xiao-Fan Wang²

Affiliations

¹ Hospital for Sick Children, 686 Bay Street, Room 9.9715, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4 Canada.
² Duke University School of Medicine, C218 LSRC, Box 3813, Durham, NC 27710 USA.

Abstract

This thematic issue of Cell & Bioscience highlights review articles by Sophia Y. Tsai and Ming-Jer Tsai's research team on roles of COUP-TFII in tumor progression and metastasis and by Hui-Kuan Lin and his colleagues on posttranslational regulation of Akt in human cancer. Drs. Sophia Tsai and Ming-Jer Tsai were the 2013 Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA) Lifetime Achievement Award winners. Dr. Hui-Kuan Lin was the 2013 SCBA Outstanding Young Investigator Award winner.