King L Hung
@kinglhung
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Biologist at Scripps, PhD at Stanford. Dynamics of genomes and cells.
San Diego, CA
Joined February 2015
Cancer cells often harbor oncogenes outside chromosomes on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA), which is unevenly inherited by dividing cells. Today we report in @Nature that collectives of ecDNAs are inherited together by dividing cancer cells. 1/
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Congrats to both my PhD advisor @HowardYChang and @Amgen !
Excited to welcome @HowardYChang to @Amgen as our new SVP for Research & CSO! A pioneering physician-scientist, Howard’s expertise in genetics, oncology, & inflammation will help us push the boundaries of discovery. We’re excited to embark on this journey together to redefine the future of science and medicine!
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I am moving to the butterfly app for now. Hope to see you there!
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RT @AdityaRaguram: Excited to share our new system for evolving eVLPs with improved production and protein delivery efficiencies! Grateful…
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Just accepted the Best Thesis Award in Cancer Biology at Stanford! Very grateful to this wonderful community for providing the creative space that made the science possible.
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RT @anton_gh: Three papers and the cover of @Nature on ecDNA !!! 🔥🔥 What an amazing achievement by our @CancerGrand team eDyNAmiC led by…
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RT @MattG_Jones: Ecstatic to see our latest effort published in @Nature! It's been a privilege co-leading this project with @kinglhung, @iv…
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RT @CancerGrand: Tweetorial below on the paper Coordinated inheritance of extrachromosomal DNAs in cancer cells, published yesterday in @Na…
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Thanks to @CancerGrand for supporting this project. Thank you also to all other collaborators who made this study possible, including Joshua Lange, Britney He, @Jens_Luebeck, Rachel Schmargon, Elisa Scanu, Lotte Brückner, @BenjaminWerner_ @huang_weini, Ben Cravatt, @anton_gh 9/
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