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Jan 8

Precision Nutrition- Impact of Durian Consumption on Human Microbiome and Metabolome (DURIOME)

Apr 15, 2022

Rare Cancers - Not As Rare As You Think They Are

Feb 24, 2022

Discovery of PAI-1 as a novel target for ligand inhibition in peritoneal carcinomatosis

Key events and achievements

01 Nov 2023: Poster Presentation, CTOS ANnual Meeting, Dublin (Elizabeth Lee)
- Tumor-infiltrating mast cells in angiosarcomas correlate with adverse clinical phenotypes and immuno-oncology pathways
15 Sep 2023 : MOU and RCA signed with Agilent Technologies, BioSyngen, BGI Research and MGI Tech
14 June 2023 : Poster Presentation, ICML Lugano, Switzerland
- Brincidofovir induces potent anti-tumor activity in MYC-driven Natural Killer/T-cell Lymphoma with loss of transcriptional repressor TLE1
14 April 2023 : Poster Presentation, AACR Annual Meeting, Florida, USA (Bavani Kannan)
- Single cell landscape of Multicentric Castleman Disease in Identical twins
20 Mar 2023 : ESMO Merit Award, ESMO Sarcoma and Rare Cancers Congress, Lugano, Switzerland
- Transcriptomic and enhancer landscape profiling identify Src-family kinase LYN as a candidate therapeutic target in human angiosarcoma
- Multi-omic profiling and real time ex vivo modelling of imatinib-resistant dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans with fibrosarcomatous transformation
18 Mar 2023 : Co-organized Singapore Lymphoma Scientific Symposium 2023
12 Dec 2022 : Oral abstract, ASH Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA
- Therapeutic Repurposing of Brincidofovir in Natural Killer/T-cell Lymphoma Reveals Potent Induction of Replication Stress, STING Pathway Activation and Immunogenic Cell Death
09 Dec 2022 : Invited presentation, Stem Cell Society Singapore (SCSS) Symposium (Nimmi Baby)
17 Nov 2022 : Oral paper, CTOS Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada (Jing Yi Lee)
- Spatial transcriptomics reveal topological immune landscapes of Asian head and neck angiosarcoma
19 Aug 2022 : Invited speech, 6th International BRCA Forum, Singapore
- Precision Oncology: The Time is Now !
19 Aug 2022 : Collaborative research agreement with Scinnohub Pharmaceutical
19 Aug 2022 : Collaborative research agreement with MGI Tech
04 Aug 2022 : Collaborative research agreement with Twist Bioscience
16 Jun 2022 : Best Oral Presentation, International Congress of the Asian Oncology Society (AOS 2022), South Korea
- ctDNA mutations in progressive gastrointestinal stromal tumors identify drug resistance biomarkers and uncover potential therapeutic strategies (Tun Kiat Ko)
12 Apr 2022 : Invited Oral Presentation at Major Symposium, AACR Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA
- Identification and characterization of human angiosarcoma subtypes through multi-omic multi-dimensional profiling
22 Feb 2022 : Publication on circulating tumor DNA mutations in progressive gastrointestinal stromal tumors, Frontiers in Oncology
17 Feb 2022 : Travel Award for Poster abstract at Japanese Society of Medical Oncology Annual Meeting, Japan
- Dissecting Intratumoral Heterogeneity of Sarcomatoid RCC Arising from Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (Elizabeth Lee)
12 Jan 2022 : Commercial launch of the UNITED NGS Assay (Lucence) for Asian prevalent cancers at the NCCS
21 Oct 2021 : Collaborative research agreement with STEMCELL Technologies
01 Sep 2021 : Collaborative research agreement with SymBio Pharmaceuticals on EBV-positive lymphomas
01 Sep 2021 : Official launch of Cancer Discovery Hub!

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Scientific publications supported by the Cancer Discovery Hub

Spatial transcriptomics reveal topological immune landscapes of Asian head and neck angiosarcoma
Communications Biology. 2023

Apr, 2023

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Angiosarcomas are rare malignant tumors of the endothelium, arising commonly from the head and neck region (AS-HN) and recently associated with ultraviolet (UV) exposure and human herpesvirus-7 infection. We examined 81 cases of angiosarcomas, including 47 cases of AS-HN, integrating information from whole genome sequencing, gene expression profiling and spatial transcriptomics (10X Visium). In the AS-HN cohort, we observed recurrent somatic mutations in CSMD3 (18%), LRP1B (18%), MUC16 (18%), POT1 (16%) and TP53 (16%). UV-positive AS-HN harbored significantly higher tumor mutation burden than UV-negative cases (p = 0.0294). NanoString profiling identified three clusters with distinct tumor inflammation signature scores (p < 0.001). Spatial transcriptomics revealed topological profiles of the tumor microenvironment, identifying dominant but tumor-excluded inflammatory signals in immune-hot cases and immune foci even in otherwise immune-cold cases. In conclusion, spatial transcriptomics reveal the tumor immune landscape of angiosarcoma, and in combination with multi-omic information, may improve implementation of treatment strategies.

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