Dun Yang (Anticancer Bioscience)
A synthetic lethality player emerges in China, armed with lessons on undruggable oncogene from Nobel laureate's lab
As a longtime postdoc in the UCSF lab of Michael Bishop — the Nobel laureate known, among other things, for cloning the oncogene MYC — Dun Yang knew the cancer target like an archer knows the bullseye.
“I always talk about if we needed to nominate the most important oncogene […] that should be MYC,” he told Endpoints News. “The second one would be RAS. Because more than 50% of human cancer overexpress MYC oncogene.”
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