Huge thank you to the Basser Center for BRCA @penncancer.bsky.social for selecting our lab for the Pearl & Philip Basser Innovation Research Award and the Young Investigator Award! We hope our work will help bring us closer to being able to stop cancer at the earliest point possible.

I’m deeply honored to be selected by @theaacr.bsky.social for the Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award! This means a lot to our lab. We are proud to be part of @pennmedicine.bsky.social, @penncancer.bsky.social, Penn Cancer Bio, and the Basser Center to study cancer interception opportunities!

Isabella nailed our lab’s debut at the Friday Comet seminar. We celebrated with these gorgeous raspberry dark chocolate cupcakes—handcrafted by Isabella herself!

Thank you for the opportunity to share our work with the Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology Department at the University of Virginia! It was great to see old friends and get to know new faculty and students.

Isabella and I kicked off 2026 by welcoming Maggie into our lab for her rotation. We grabbed lunch at our favorite Indian restaurant on campus!

Thank you Andrew Olander and Shaheen @ssikandar.bsky.social for inviting me to visit the MCD Biology Department at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social! I love the insightful comments at my talk and the engaging conversations throughout. Hopefully I can come back, and maybe even get to see a real banana slug!

We celebrated our lab’s two grant submissions with a little dessert expedition to a culinary school at West Philly! It was so good :-) Special thanks to our lab neighbor Genova for the selfie!

Our lab welcomed Isabella Cagno earlier this month. She hit the ground running, and we had a great time at the @upenn.bsky.social Cancer Biology annual retreat at beautiful Skytop, PA!

Very happy to share our work at #AACR25! Thank you @theaacr.bsky.social and @bcrfcure.bsky.social for the travel award! It was fun to connect with colleagues @pennmedicine.bsky.social, @harvardmed.bsky.social, and beyond.

Our lab has opened at the Cancer Biology Department and the Basser Center for BRCA @upenn.bsky.social! We study new mechanisms of hereditary cancers and their implications for sporadic cancers, building on my training with @labjacks.bsky.social and Joan Brugge. Join us! tinyurl.com/CarmanLiLabH...

Thank you, Camila @caoresco.bsky.social and Steven Lewis, for highlighting our work in this News & Views in Nature Genetics!

New work from Joan Brugge's lab @harvardcellbio.bsky.social explores how Brca1 haploinsufficiency promotes early tumor onset and epigenetic alterations in a mouse model of hereditary breast cancer - Led by Carman Li www.nature.com/articles/s41...