April 2022

The lab is out in force at AACR 2022! We have a talk and 3 posters, and a great in person contingent with Ardy, Ahmand and Peyton doing a terrific job 

Although I will miss seeing everyone in person, we will still be at #AACR22!
My talk on organoid models for rare tumors will be on Tuesday April 12 at 11:00 am as part of Session AOS09 / Room 208-210, I will be there in hybrid format to answer questions!https://t.co/I7HdDkN0JM

— Soragni:Lab (@soragnilab) April 8, 2022

And @soragnilab is well represented today with Ardy, Ahmad and Peyton ready to go #AACR22 pic.twitter.com/zQ9rBxVEuk

— Soragni:Lab (@soragnilab) April 12, 2022

February 2022

Our chordoma paper is now officially published in Science Advances

Link to the paper

Our newest paper is finally out! Chordoma is an ultra-rare bone cancer, a 1 in a million diagnosis. Here we apply our high-throughput screening platform to personalized chordoma organoidshttps://t.co/mVVVOVlSh1

— Soragni:Lab (@soragnilab) February 16, 2022

January 2021

Alice speaks at the 2022 UCLA Broad Stem Cell Center Symposium

Alice Soragni @soragnilab develops tumor organoid models to evaluate drugs and investigate the biology of rare cancers like sarcoma. "Studying rare cancers is challenging, but it also provides opportunities to find quicker ways to identify therapies," she says. #UCLAStemCell22 pic.twitter.com/ZVlST5Iiw0

— UCLA Broad Stem Cell (@UCLAstemcell) January 28, 2022

December 2021

As of December 2021, the lab is 5yo!

Well, lo and behold, the lab just turned 5 □ (separate thread incoming..)..
Lots of ups and downs but we got some good news today so let's enjoy that for a minute: paper accepted and small foundation grant funded, so proud of this team!

— Soragni:Lab (@soragnilab) December 13, 2021

October 2021​

Our organoid screening platform capabilities keep growing and expanding

Exciting things happening today in lab.. pic.twitter.com/vY3S3H0QlV

— Soragni:Lab (@soragnilab) October 20, 2021

It's coming together! pic.twitter.com/j0uDgeZW9v

— Soragni:Lab (@soragnilab) October 21, 2021

October 2021

We have a new preprint from the lab out on bioRxiv - this is a terrific collaboration with the Teitell lab at UCLA.

It seems like I have some time today, so let me tell you about this new organoid bioprinting/HSLCI platform we developed with the Teitell Lab:https://t.co/8qozqkZ3OC pic.twitter.com/U69RYfV4pv

— Soragni:Lab (@soragnilab) October 6, 2021

September 2021

Our Provocative Question collaborative R01 is officially funded!

Alice Soragni awarded $2.5 million from National Cancer Institute to develop lab-grown mini tumors that can help identify treatments for rare types of #NeuroendocrineTumors https://t.co/JrVBlmQw4E #pheochromocytoma #paraganglioms @PheoPara @KnowPheoPara @PheoParaProj

— CarcinoidCancer CCF (@CarcinoidNETs) October 5, 2021

​August 2021

Congratulations to Peyton on being awarded a JCCC Fellowship and to William on being the recipient of an NIH Supplement. Huyen has been admitted to the MBIDP UCLA grad program! Last but not least, welcome Luda, who is also a graduate student in the MBIDP Program. 

It's good news Thursday (and if that's not a thing, it is now)!
Want to share some recent positive news from the lab, hope you all join me in congratulating our trainees. First up, we just learned today that our graduate student Peyton @peytontebon was awarded a JCCC Fellowship! pic.twitter.com/hvmw174BLl

— Soragni:Lab (@soragnilab) August 19, 2021

Huyen joined us from Vietnam as a visiting student a couple of years ago through the Center for Global Mentoring program at UCLA, and has now been admitted to the MBIDP program as a graduate student - Congrats!! pic.twitter.com/LFAW5bBJLW

— Soragni:Lab (@soragnilab) August 19, 2021

Also this week we received the news that our NCI supplement will be funded! This will support our CSUDH student William for his work on ovarian cancer pic.twitter.com/VuXdL65BZF

— Soragni:Lab (@soragnilab) August 19, 2021

And finally, last month a new graduate student joined the lab from the MBIDP Program, Luda - welcome! pic.twitter.com/QFsbbcvqlr

— Soragni:Lab (@soragnilab) August 19, 2021

August 2021

Developing organoids: an interview with Alice Soragni on 3D biology at the interface of treating cancers and protein aggregation

Read the interview

August 2021

Sara and Alice author a preview on cervical organoids in Cell Stem Cell

Our Preview on cervical organoids in @CellStemCell is out!
This was fun to write, and only possible thanks to @SaraSartini26 who got us through to the finish line in record timehttps://t.co/vWXrwZZZd6

— Soragni:Lab (@soragnilab) August 5, 2021

​June 2021

Alice gets re-elected to the Board of the Society for Functional Precision Medicine

We want to thank all of our SFPM Members for voting in our election.
Congratulations to the newly elected @TheSFPM Board Member @Diana_Azzam_PhD and re-elected @JoanMonte and @soragnilab!

— The Society for Functional Precision Medicine (@TheSFPM) July 16, 2021

June 2021

Alice gives a talk on our sarcoma program during the AACR Virtual Special Conference on Sarcomas

Sarcoma Model Systems:
Alice @SoragniLab, Genevieve @KendallLabNCH, Janai Carr-Ascher @ucdavis, and Angela Hirbe @WUSTL will address this topic in a plenary session during the AACR Virtual Special Conference on Sarcomas, June 28-29:https://t.co/33XIPqfXCx#AACRsarcoma21 pic.twitter.com/Xv9MK133sc

— AACR (@AACR) June 1, 2021

May 2021

We have a new preprint on bioRxiv! It describes our work on a rare bone cancer, chordoma. Read the thread below for a tweetorial

Link to preprint

All the feelings getting this work out after what this year has been. But hey, we have a new preprint!!
We are focusing on a very rare bone cancer affecting one in a million people: chordoma. Can we routinely generate and screen chordoma organoids? Yes!□https://t.co/egV7Jm3hXz pic.twitter.com/40RLaNf91D

— Soragni:Lab (@soragnilab) May 28, 2021

April 2021

Together with Prachee Avasthi we start a recurrent Twitter Space called #365preprints to discuss a preprint a day in 10 minutes

This amazing thing serendipitously happened last week. @PracheeAC and I started a @TwitterSpaces experiment called #365preprints. We alternate to choose one preprint a day we love and highlight it live for 5-10 min max. It's been the most fun I've had since..I don't even remember

— Soragni:Lab (@soragnilab) May 2, 2021

May 2021

The whole lab finally gets to share a meal together! Read the thread below for some personnel updates

Probably about 15 months have passed since we last managed to enjoy a sit down meal together.
So happy that vaccines allowed us to get to this point, and we had so much to celebrate! pic.twitter.com/CQxcYfGpGR

— Soragni:Lab (@soragnilab) May 6, 2021