May 2026 News and Publications

Grants and Contracts:

Robert J. Bloch, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, received support totaling $168,750, of which, $112,500 is direct with Mammoth Biosciences for “Epigenetic Editing of DUX4 Locus in Mouse Xenografts”.

Publications:

Yilun Sun, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology and SOP Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, was last author of “HDAC inhibition unlocks tumor plasticity and enhances immunotherapy response in Myc-driven small cell lung cancer”, which was published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics on May 1, 2026.