Perspectives
Short opinion and perspective essays from the Huang Lab — provocations and forecasts on where cancer biology, metabolism, immunology, and translational medicine are heading next.
My job is no longer to hand a trainee one question for five years. It is to teach them the whole arc of building a therapy, and to give them room to build.
Gang HuangPrincipal Investigator, Huang Lab · Mays Cancer Center, UT Health San AntonioThe old model rewarded going deep on one gene for a career. The new era of biomedical funding rewards moving discovery into the clinic, and graduate training has to change with it.
Vincent T. PhamCancer Biology PhD Candidate, Huang Lab · Co-Founder and CEO, Powerhouse TherapeuticsFor a century we found drugs. Now we are learning to write them. Why the shift to programmable, modular, personalized therapy is the defining change in medicine.
Vincent T. PhamCancer Biology PhD Candidate, Huang Lab · Co-Founder and CEO, Powerhouse TherapeuticsWe use AI to automate preclinical R&D, run fewer experiments, and surface insights across our data. The scientists who learn it now will define the next era of biology.
Vincent T. PhamCancer Biology PhD Candidate, Huang Lab · Co-Founder and CEO, Powerhouse Therapeutics