Nancy Li

Dec 5, 2024 | wesleyanargus.com | Nancy Li

For nearly three decades, the Freeman Family Japanese Garden 逍遙庵庭園 (Shôyôan Teien) has quietly flourished within the embrace of the University’s Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies. The garden was designed, built, and curated by Stephen Morrell, a landscape architect renowned for his expertise in Japanese-style gardens, with financial support from the family of Mansfield Freeman, class of 1916, and his son Houghton Freeman ’43.

Oct 10, 2024 | wesleyanargus.com | Nancy Li

The Argus sat down with Liu Hongli, the University’s Chinese Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA). Juggling her responsibilities as both a teacher and a graduate student, Liu has been able to experience the quirks of American liberal arts education during her time at Wesleyan and appreciates how even a game of Mahjong can bridge cultural gaps. The following interview was conducted in Mandarin Chinese and has been translated into English.

Sep 17, 2024 | nature.com | Nancy Li |Weiruo Zhang |Daniel Haensel |Anna R. Jussila |Cory Pan

AbstractCancer-associated inflammation is a double-edged sword possessing both pro- and anti-tumor properties through ill-defined tumor-immune dynamics. While we previously identified a carcinoma tumor-intrinsic resistance pathway, basal-to-squamous cell carcinoma transition, here, employing a multipronged single-cell and spatial-omics approach, we identify an inflammation and therapy-enriched tumor state we term basal-to-inflammatory transition.

Oct 2, 2023 | link.springer.com | Nancy Li

AbstractThe likelihood of benefit from a preventive intervention in an older adult depends on its time-to-benefit and the adult’s life expectancy. For example, the time-to-benefit from cancer screening is >10 years, so adults with <10-year life expectancy are unlikely to benefit. To examine receipt of screening for breast, prostate, or colorectal cancer and receipt of immunizations by 10-year life expectancy. Analysis of 2019 National Health Interview Survey.

May 10, 2023 | nature.com | Daniel Haensel |Bence Daniel |Tania Fabo |Jeremy Bjelajac |Nancy Li |Ansuman T. Satpathy | +2 more

AbstractCancer immunotherapies have revolutionized treatment but have shown limited success as single-agent therapies highlighting the need to understand the origin, assembly, and dynamics of heterogeneous tumor immune niches. Here, we use single-cell and imaging-based spatial analysis to elucidate three microenvironmental neighborhoods surrounding the heterogeneous basal cell carcinoma tumor epithelia.