Latest News
Jun 19, 2026
Grant award from Showalter Research Trust
The W-R Zhang Lab is honored to receive a Showalter Trust Award to support our research on decoding spatial metabolic–immune niches in cancer. This award will help advance our efforts to integrate spatial transcriptomics, metabolomics, and computational modeling to identify molecularly actionable features of tumor progression.
May 18, 2026
New publication on Cancer Cell
Our collaborative study, published in Cancer Cell (impact factor: 44.5), reveals how lymph node colonization reshapes tissue organization through immunosuppressive fibroblast–myeloid cell niches that support metastatic tolerance. This work highlights the power of spatial profiling to uncover how metastatic niches regulate tumor–immune interactions and cancer progression.
May 5, 2026
Team introduction
We are thrilled to introduce our wonderful interdisciplinary team, brining together expertise from computational Biology, computer science, mathematics, medical physics and more! Please read more about our current members: Kyen, Yunyi, Ishrak, Harshini, Harsha, Rashimi.
Nov 10, 2025
We have openings for PhD students of 2026 cycle.
This is a general announcement that we are not able to respond to the recent large amount of email enquiries. We have openings for 2026 PhD cycle applications.
Oct 27, 2025
Fei and Gautam joined the lab as rotation students.
Welcome Fei and Gautam!
Oct 21, 2025
Department of Biological Sciences launches a new research area "Genomics, Multiomics & AI"
Dr. Zhang is among the current 12 faculty members included in the new research area. Please read more here: https://www.bio.purdue.edu/news/articles/2025/purdue-biological-sciences-launches-genomics-multiomics-ai-research-area.html
Oct 17, 2025
W-R Zhang lab is part of the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research (PICR)
Dr. Zhang is officially an Associate Member of Purdue Institute for Cancer Research, in Cell Identity & Signaling.
Sep 15, 2025
Xiaoyue Li joined the lab as a rotation student.
Welcome Xiaoyue!
