👏Thrilled to share that our PhD student Yujia Lu has been awarded the Rose Fellowship!
This is an incredible recognition of their hard work, creativity, and potential.
Huge congratulations — we’re so proud of you! 🥰

🎥 We’re excited to share our new video introducing the Song Lab! Hear from a few members of our team as they talk about our research and what it’s like to be part of our lab community. www.linkedin.com/posts/song-l...

Excited to share: our COMMENCER clinical trial at MGH & Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is studying how coffee may impact the gut microbiome, metabolic health, and colon cancer survivorship. Still enrolling—stay tuned!

#ClinicalTrial #GutMicrobiome #ColonCancer #CoffeeScience

Our lab member Dr. Yufeng Chen is first author on a new study in the American Journal of Gastroenterology revealing that traditional serrated adenomas (TSAs) significantly raise the risk of future high-risk polyps and colorectal cancer. #SongLab #GI #colorectalcancer

Song Lab collaborator Markus Dines Knudsen has won Best Article of the Year by a Young Scientist for his JAMA Oncology paper, "Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality After Negative Colonoscopy Screening Results." Proud to contribute to this impactful collaboration! @harvardepi.bsky.social

Colorectal polyps are increasingly found in adults under 50. At this year's DDW, Song Lab scholar Yufeng Chen presented research showing that people under 50 with polyps face a similar risk of cancer progression as older adults. Screening matters for younger adults, too—not just those over 50.

Yesterday, Markus Dines Knudsen and Song Lab PI Mingyang Song shared compelling findings on how adopting healthier lifestyle habits after a colonoscopy screening could lower the risk of colorectal cancer and other major chronic diseases. @harvardepi.bsky.social @ddwmeeting.bsky.social #DDW2025

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle after a colorectal cancer diagnosis is linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality. These findings highlight the importance of integrating lifestyle interventions into oncology care to improve cardiovascular health among survivors. #DDW2025

Why is colorectal cancer risk still high after adenoma removal? The gut microbiome and its metabolites might hold the answer! Dive into our findings with Ana Nogal at #DDW2025. #Microbiome #CRC

This May, we are excited to spotlight @songlab.bsky.social over the coming weeks 🎉

The Song Lab, founded in 2018 by Principal Investigator Mingyang Song, focuses on the clinical and translational epidemiology of #colorectalcancer

Follow us to learn more about the lab all month long

Kai Wang gives two #DDW2025 talks:

May 3 at 2:15 PM – How diet shapes fecal bile acids and colorectal neoplasia risk

May 4 at 11:00 AM – Microbiome-driven bile acid metabolism via metagenomics, metabolomics & proteomics

Don’t miss it!

Song Lab's Xinyu Wang will present at the GI Oncology Plenary at #DDW2025, sharing how the metabolomic signature of ultra-processed food (UPF) intake is linked to higher risk of polyps, including adenomas and serrated types. Excited to support her and share this work with the GI community!

Our lab is heading to San Diego for Digestive Disease Week 2025, happening May 3–6! We’ll share new research on GI cancer prevention, the microbiome, ultra-processed foods, metabolomics, and early-life exposures. We’ll be posting more over the next few weeks leading up to the meeting. Stay tuned!

New Seminar Alert 🚨

Join us this Friday, March 21st at 2:00pm EST for Dr. Marc Gunter's presentation on "Metabolic Dysfunction and Cancer: New Insights from Molecular Epidemiology and Interventional Approaches"

Attend in person or virtually. Register now ⬇️ harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We’re excited to announce that 10 researchers from the Song Lab will present at DDW 2025! One focus area includes the impact of lifestyle changes post-colonoscopy on colorectal cancer. Our commitment goes beyond advancing scientific knowledge—it aims to create tangible benefits for public health.

We're honored to be featured in the Harvard Gazette for our recent journal article on colorectal cancer screening. You can read the article here: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

We’re thrilled to share our latest collaborative research with the Segata Lab published in Nature Microbiology! Our study reveals a fascinating connection between coffee consumption and the gut microorganism Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus. @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41...