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The August Graduate Student of the Month is Siyuan “Simon” Cheng. Simon works in the lab of Dr. Xiuping Yu in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. His dissertation project is titled, “The epigenetic changes involved in neuroendocrine prostate cancer development.” His work focuses on the developmental process of neuroendocrine prostate cancer using many techniques, such as comprehensive transcriptome analysis to identify the differentially expressed genes between neuroendocrine prostate cancer and adenocarcinoma.
Learn more about Siyuan's research in the Yu Lab.