Tony Hui

@realTonyHui

Study energy metabolism and related diseases. Associate professor of molecular metabolism @HarvardChanSPH Via @HKBU_Alumni @UCSDnews @Princeton

Boston, MA hsph.harvard.edu/sheng-tony-hui/ Joined July 2018

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Tony Hui @realTonyHui Nov 5

Our summer research internship is now accepting applications! 🔬 We welcome undergraduates who are passionate about biological research but have limited access to research opportunities at their home institutions.

hsph.harvard.edu/fellowship-spe…

hsph.harvard.edu Summer Internship in Biological Sciences in Public Health | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public... The BPH summer internship program provides college science students an opportunity to experience the rewards of laboratory research directed toward solving important public health problems.

Tony Hui @realTonyHui Nov 3

Happy to report a rigorously controlled, comprehensively characterized mouse model in which cachexia is driven specifically by lung metastases, paired with a genetically identical, non-cachectic control group. Hope cachexia researchers find it useful. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

www.biorxiv.org A mouse model of metastasis-induced breast cancer cachexia with non-cachectic controls bearing... Background Patients with advanced cancer frequently develop cachexia, an involuntary weight-loss condition that correlates strongly with metastatic burden. Despite this clinical association, metast...

Tony Hui @realTonyHui Oct 12

A valuable resource for risk factors of cancer cachexia, identified in a very large cohort of patients.

Ed Reznik @EdReznik Oct 12

After many years of effort, deliberation, excitement, angst, joy, and Wednesday afternoon lab lunches, our group's first manuscript on cachexia, led by Venise Jan Castillon, Amy Xie, and really our whole lab nature.com/articles/s4159… @NatureMedicine
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Tony Hui @realTonyHui Apr 30

We propose a two-branched structure of causal pathway of cancer cachexia, with one energy balance branch and the other independent of energy balance.

Separating food intake-dependent and -independent effects in cancer cachexia: iScience cell.com/iscience/fullt…

www.cell.com Separating food intake-dependent and -independent effects in cancer cachexia Nutrition; Physiology; Cancer

Tony Hui @realTonyHui Apr 23

Looking forward to interactions at this exciting meeting.

NYAS Verified account @NYASciences Nov 25, 2025

Registration is open!

Join us on May 6, 2026, for Adipocyte Futile Cycling & Metabolism, a one-day symposium exploring adipose biology, metabolic memory, & next-gen weight-management therapies.

Register by Jan. 31 for early-bird pricing: events.nyas.org/adipocytes?utm…

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