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Hua Wang UIUC @wanglabuiuc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Happy to share our new research article entitled “RENBP inhibition amplifies metabolic glycan labeling efficiency of antigen-presenting cells in vitro and in vivo”. cancer.illinois.edu/hua-wang-unv...

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Hua Wang Unveils Promising Targeting Technology for Cancer Immunotherapy | Cancer Center at Illinois

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Hua Wang UIUC @wanglabuiuc.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Happy to share that I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Grateful for the tremendous support from my students, collaborators, colleagues, and friends in this journey! My lab will keep the good work going and try our best to contribute to the research community.

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Hua Wang UIUC @wanglabuiuc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Happy to share our recent work on Extracellular vesicle hydrogel. Now hopefully researchers in the EV community do not have to worry about the minimal loading efficiency of EV into a pre-formed hydrogel. Instead, one can use EV itself as a building block for hydrogels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Injectable extracellular vesicle hydrogels with tunable viscoelasticity for depot vaccine - Nature Communications

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) play a critical role in mediating intercellular communication, but the poor tissue retention of EVs has limited the efficacy of EV-based therapies. Here, the authors repor...

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Hua Wang UIUC @wanglabuiuc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Received this beautiful glass brain from Sontag. Thank you for this thoughtful design and the amazing retreat! @Sontag Foundation

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Hua Wang UIUC @wanglabuiuc.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Excited and humbled to receive the 2024 Sontag Distinguished Scientist Award. My group and I are grateful for the tremendous support from the Sontag Foundation and @UIUC MatSE and CCIL! We will continue our quest for therapeutic cancer vaccines and immunotherapies! matse.illinois.edu/news/72039

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Brain cancer treatment research backed via prestigious grant

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Brendan Harley @profharley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The Living Materials & Tissue Engineering community continues to grow on Bluesky. So great to see more colleagues over here AND to met new/rising stars in our community. Lets keep growing & sharing our work. And let me know others to add including self-nominations! go.bsky.app/AeG8FWr

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Padmanee (Pam) Sharma, MD, PhD @pamsharmamdphd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Sharing our latest review article to highlight the importance of appropriately developing combination strategies for immune checkpoint therapy. Grateful for working with 3 brilliant scientists: Sangeeta Goswami, Kristen Pauken & Linghua Wang

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Next-generation combination approaches for immune checkpoint therapy - Nature Immunology

In this Review, Sharma and colleagues describe the current landscape of combination therapies and discuss requirements for the development of effective combination strategies.

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Jon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

PD-1 and CD73 on naive CD4+ T cells synergistically limit responses to self www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Hua Wang UIUC @wanglabuiuc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Had a lovely visit at Rice Materials Science and NanoEngineering. Thanks for being a great host @ctringides.bsky.social Awesome faculty, students, and research environment! Also finally met my collaborators at MD Anderson in person, and got to know many new friends there.

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