Tag: Fan Lab

Donor generosity helps prime discovery at Morgridge

Two Morgridge investigators in 2025 have received donor-funded named professorships, which provide invaluable support for ongoing research and new opportunities.

Neutrophils powered by dynamic shifts in mitochondrial metabolism

New research uncovers the role of mitochondrial metabolism in neutrophils and the mechanisms that allow them to adapt under different conditions.

Congratulations to our 2025 graduates

Congratulations to our 2025 graduating students and research staff moving on into their next chapters. A few of them shared about their experiences at Morgridge and their plans for the future.

Rising Sparks: Nick Arp, metabolism

Nick Arp is building a toolbox of knowledge in the research lab and in the medical clinic, searching for answers to scientific questions that can improve patient care.

Morgridge supporters experience a “Night in the Lab”

During a special event, the Morgridge Institute welcomed a group of enthusiastic, science-curious donors and supporters into the lab to explore “fearless science” first-hand.

Pathways to Immunity

via College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Morgridge investigator Jing Fan embraces an interdisciplinary approach as she pushes the boundaries of immunometabolism to search for better ways to fight disease.

Neutrophils perform metabolic changing act in role as first responder immune cells

Morgridge Investigator Jing Fan and her lab recently published a study in the journal Nature Metabolism that takes a closer look at the unique metabolic activity that powers neutrophils as the first responders in innate immunity.

Congratulations to May 2022 graduates

Congratulations to our 2022 graduating students and research staff moving on into their next chapters. A few of them shared their experiences at Morgridge and their plans for the future.

‘Like a Map of the City’ – How Metabolic Networks Contribute to Our Understanding of Cancer’s Growth

via UW Health

When Morgridge investigator Jing Fan thinks about metabolism, she is focused on the complicated network of biochemical reactions. Her lab has been working on understanding metabolism in a quantitative, systematic way.

Scientists explore the role of metabolism in immune response

In a new study published in Nature Metabolism, the Jing Fan Lab highlights how changing metabolism can regulate the course of an immune response.

Jing Fan joins Morgridge Institute metabolism theme

Can we fight cancer by targeting its metabolism, essentially starving tumors of the nutrients they need to survive? It’s one of the intriguing big-picture questions in the research field of Jing Fan, a new investigator in the Morgridge Institute for Research metabolism theme.