Lab News

May 2025 - Denis Mustafov wins a Top Poster Award at the 2025 SNO Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Conference held here in San Diego for his project focused on role of miR-19 in SHH medulloblastoma!

October 2025 – UCSD MD-PhD student Min Jun Li officially joins the Raju Lab for her thesis dissertation and will be studying mechanisms of leptomeningeal metastasis in medulloblastoma!

November 2025 – Raju Lab officially moves in as the first tenants of the newly constructed Viterbi Family Vision Research Center!

November 2025 – Several Raju Lab members were featured on a national TV commercial for the Rady Children’s Health Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Program which aired during Thanksgiving weekend!

December 2025 - Bryan Li receives the prestigious ChadTough DefeatDIPG Foundation Fellowship grant for his work on enhancing BBB nanoPROTAC drug delivery in pediatric DMG/DIPG!