title: COUP-TFII and AKT are cancer targets pursued by SCBA award winners.
abstract: This thematic issue of Cell & Bioscience highlights review articles by Sophia Y. Tsai and Ming-Jer Tsai's research team on roles of COUP-TFII in tumor progression and metastasis and by Hui-Kuan Lin and his colleagues on posttranslational regulation of Akt in human cancer. Drs. Sophia Tsai and Ming-Jer Tsai were the 2013 Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA) Lifetime Achievement Award winners. Dr. Hui-Kuan Lin was the 2013 SCBA Outstanding Young Investigator Award winner.
authors.affiliation: Hospital for Sick Children, 686 Bay Street, Room 9.9715, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4 Canada.
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Duke University School of Medicine, C218 LSRC, Box 3813, Durham, NC 27710 USA.
authors.forename: Xiao-Fan
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Wang