Source: Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital
Written by: Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital
Translated by: International Office of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital
Edited by: Wang Dongmei

From April 18 to 22, 2015, the 106th Annual Meeting of American Association for Cancer Research was held in Philadelphia, USA. Prof. Song Erwei from Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, was invited to chair one of the minisymposiums entitled “Non-Coding RNAs in Cancer Biology” on April 20 with Prof. Joshua Mendell from UT Southwestern Medical Center. At the symposium, representatives from University of Michigan, Fox Chase Cancer Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, UCLA, Yale University, The University of Hong Kong, etc. shared their latest discoveries, providing a stimulating forum for interaction among world-renowned scientists in cancer research.

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) was built in 1907, which is the world’s earliest and largest scientific organization focusing on cancer. AACR has attracted scientists around the world for its scientific broadness and excellency. It promotes the communication of great minds, offers training opportunities for the next generation of scientists, and enhances public awareness to cancer. This year’s meeting theme “Bringing Cancer Discoveries to Patients” underscores the vital and inextricable link between discovery and treatment, underpinning the latest progress in the field toward cancer cures.

AACR’s invitation to Prof. Song as the co-chair of the minisymposium is an acknowledgment of his achievement in the filed. It also affirms the international influence of Sun Yat-sen University. Since 2004, Prof. Song has begun the systematic research on the regulatory mechanism and clinical significance of non-coding RNA towards the plasticity and transfer property of breast tumor cells, which has earned worldwide recognition. He has found out the regulatory function of miRNA (microRNA) towards tumor stem cells, discovered the mechanism of lncRNA (long non-coding RNA) in regulating the signaling pathway of inflammatory cancer cells as signal transduction molecule, and uncovered the application potential of ncRNA and interstitial inflammatory factor in predicting tumor metastasis during clinical practice. Prof. Song has published 88 articles in SCI journals such as Cell, Cancer Cell, Nat Med, etc., with 53 of them as first-author or corresponding-author articles, whose total impact factor adds up to 415.4.