Colin Kenny

Colin Kenny, PhD, has won three major awards in recent months. Kenny researches melanoma, having developed a zebra fish model to identify uveal melanoma biomarkers. He also studies how a melanoma's location affects tumor behavior. Read more about his work: internalmedicineiowa.org/2026/04/02/ken…

Cancer cells are notoriously plastic, but what triggers the changes in cell state? In our new @nature paper, Miranda Hunter found that mechanical pressure is a key to this switch. Check it out here: go.nature.com/47iwDm2

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@Abbeyandsmokey @UIowaResearch @PASPCR1 @ZebrafishRock Interesting question, we have not tested this but I suspect similar results.

@TheKennyLab @UIowaResearch @PASPCR1 @ZebrafishRock Would this also apply to GNAQ R183?

Excited to share our recent pre-print describing a novel model of Uveal Melanoma in Adult Zebrafish. @UIowaResearch @PASPCR1 @ZebrafishRock Mitfa-Independent Melanocyte Progenitors are Highly Susceptible to GNAQ-induced Uveal Melanoma in Adult Zebrafish biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Work performed at @UIowa_Surgery @uiowa @Iowa @UIowaResearch

Excited to share our work that describes Antagonistic roles for MITF and TFE3 in melanoma plasticity: Cell Reports cell.com/cell-reports/f…

May is Melanoma Awareness Month, where we highlight awareness for the deadliest form of skin cancer and the urgent need for prevention, early detection, and research. Support the fight against melanoma: curemelanoma.org/maymatch25

The Biology Dept at the University of Iowa (@uiowabiology) has two tenure-track assistant professor searches this year - one in cell biology (#74891) and one in neuroscience (#74892). To apply: jobs.uiowa.edu/content/facult…. Reach out if you have questions. Please Retweet.

@sandhya_manohar Did you stain your filter paper for the loading control lol congrats on the result.

western blotted a 600 kDa protein today, please clap

RIBOmap for spatially resolved single-cell translatomics is published today! Congrats to the whole team and thanks so much for the constructive feedback and great suggestion from the editor, reviewers, colleagues, and friends! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@PhD_Genie Incremental findings

State a reason why would reviewer 2 reject this abstract

@beck_md Congratulations

Outstanding presentation by tour de force @JChang_MD on the crosstalk between MITF and TFE3 in driving melanoma metastases at @UIowaCancer Scientific Retreat ! First podium presentation of work from the Kenny lab @TheKennyLab ! Congrats! 👏🏾👏🏾

@whitefishlab @DLMQN Awesome work, congratulations on a beautiful paper.

Lipid droplets – at the heart of #melanoma? In our new paper, @DLMQN show where, when and how these unique organelles support tumor growth. Check it out: nature.com/articles/s4146…

#NASmember Funmi Olopade’s genetic research revealed that the African pan-genome contains 10 percent more DNA than the current human reference genome, and that a fuller picture of the genetic basis of breast cancer is needed to help inform treatment and save lives. #NAS160

Excited & honored to be awarded a New Investigator @_BrightFocus Foundation Macular Degeneration Research award combining my PhD training in innate immunity @SDoyleTcd and postdoc in choroid biology & iPSC modeling @ChoroidLab @StemCellsEh to study choroidal macrophages in AMD.

Grateful 🙏