Heide Ford Lab

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We remember and honor Joshua Black, PhD, who passed away on Oct. 25, 2025. Josh was a brilliant scientist, a beloved colleague, and a cherished friend. To honor his legacy and support a research lectureship in his honor, we invite you to contribute in his memory at giving.cu.edu/JBlack.

Josh was an amazing colleague, collaborator, and friend. He will be very much missed.

CU Cancer Center’s Newest Rising Star Focuses on ‘Opposite Ends of the Breast Cancer Spectrum’ Michael Oliphant, PhD, rejoins Heide Ford, PhD, at the CU Department of Pharmacology to study cancer evolution and drug resistance.

A few years ago, Michael Oliphant was a doctoral student working in the lab of @cucancercenter.bsky.social leader @heidefordlab.bsky.social to understand how breast cancer spreads. Now, Oliphant is back at @cuanschutz.bsky.social @cupharmacology.bsky.social, launching his own lab. #cucityofhealth

Sharing this new review written by two talented trainees from the Ford lab, Sheera Rosenbaum and Kaiah Fields. @kaiahfields.bsky.social

So impressed by our new faculty members Justin O’Hare and Debo Sardar for being 2 of only 12 nationally who received the Klingenstein award this year! @debo-astrocyte.bsky.social @justinkohare.bsky.social

Cryo-EM structures reveal the PP2A-B55α and Eya3 interaction that can be disrupted by a peptide inhibitor We have previously shown that Eya3 recruits PP2A-B55α to dephosphorylate pT58 on Myc, increasing Myc stability and enhancing primary tumor growth of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). However, the ...

Excited to share this new paper from my close collaborator’s lab, Rui Zhao. www.jbc.org/article/S002...

EYA3 regulation of NF-κB and CCL2 suppresses cytotoxic NK cells in the premetastatic niche to promote TNBC metastasis EYA3 promotes evasion of cytotoxic NK cells to enable metastasis, highlighting a therapeutic target in metastatic breast cancer.

Excited to share a new study from the Ford lab: EYA3 regulation of NF-κB and CCL2 suppresses cytotoxic NK cells in the premetastatic niche to promote TNBC metastasis | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Congratulations to Sheera Rosenbaum and Connor Hughes, as well as all co-authors!

So fortunate to work with all these amazing women in our department!

So proud of Ford lab members who have recently defended their theses (Connor Purdy and Art Wolin) and matched into the Duke internal medicine residency (Connor Hughes, MSTP). It’s been a busy couple of months for the lab, but nothing is more special than watching the success of your trainees!

Funding cuts to CU-Anschutz could erase years of medical research contributed by patients, advocates fear NIH funding cuts could halt years of progress on medical research contributed by patients at Colorado's CU-Anschutz campus.

Was very excited to host Senator Hickenlooper in my lab this past week, as well as be involved in a panel discussion around the important of federal funding for science!

coloradosun.com/2025/03/19/n...

Opinion: The Critical Need for Science Funding | Front Porch As chairs of the basic science departments, we are compelled to address a matter of utmost urgency: the critical need for funding in scientific research. In an era where scientific advancements hold t...

Excited to post this op-ed published in the front porch and written by the talented Aimee Bernard in conjunction with the basic science chairs. Opinions are our own. frontporchne.com/opinion-the-...

Frontiers | Myogenesis gone awry: the role of developmental pathways in rhabdomyosarcoma

Excited to share this new review written by Annika Gustafson, in close collaboration with Kristin Artinger and Adam Durbin @artingerlab.bsky.social
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...

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Welcome to the faculty @alebrambati.bsky.social! Read more about Ale’s background and research areas below. 🧬

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Interested in doing your postdoc with the Department of Pharmacology at @CUAnschutz? Join us for our Postdoctoral Education & Knowledge Summit with @cuanschutz_dpb and the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics!

Applications close December 1st. bit.ly/CU-PEAKS

Excited to share my first real post on Bluesky: New preprint from the Ford lab on an eya3/nfkb/ccl2 axis and the pre-metastatic niche in breast cancer. www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

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Happy to start my migration to bluesky!! Excited to meet you all here and share our science.