Corresponding author YHZ, assistant professor in UC Irvine since 2006, has started her research focus since her discovery of PAX6 suppressing GBM cell growth in vivo and as a favourable prognosis factor in high-grade gliomas and, with mechanisms involved in suppression of glioma invasion, survival under oxidative stress, and angiogenesis published in Clinical Cancer Research in 2003, Cancer Research in 2006, and Journal of Neuro-Oncology in 2005 and 2010. Here, PAX6 is linked to cancer.