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The 2022 generation

Nature Cancer volume 3, pages 1426–1431 (2022)Cite this article

Twelve early career investigators share experiences from the process of starting their laboratories throughout the past year, and reflect on the challenges faced and the opportunities seized.

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  1. Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

    Mautin Barry-Hundeyin

  2. Computational Oncology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Jian Carrot-Zhang

  3. Tissue Biology and Disease Modeling Unit, European Molecular Biology Lab, Barcelona, Spain

    Talya Dayton

  4. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Shila Ghazanfar

  5. Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Shila Ghazanfar

  6. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA

    Lillian M. Guenther

  7. Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Diu T. T. Nguyen

  8. Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

    Jason R. Pitarresi

  9. Department of Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

    Jason R. Pitarresi

  10. Centre for Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

    Sheerien Rajput

  11. Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Naiara Santana-Codina

  12. Hematology and Medical Oncology, Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR, USA

    Tanaya Shree

  13. Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Zexian Zeng

  14. Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Zexian Zeng

  15. School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Ying Zhang

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Correspondence to Mautin Barry-Hundeyin, Jian Carrot-Zhang, Talya Dayton, Shila Ghazanfar, Lillian M. Guenther, Diu T. T. Nguyen, Jason R. Pitarresi, Sheerien Rajput, Naiara Santana-Codina, Tanaya Shree, Zexian Zeng or Ying Zhang.

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Barry-Hundeyin, M., Carrot-Zhang, J., Dayton, T. et al. The 2022 generation. Nat Cancer 3, 1426–1431 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43018-022-00481-z

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