Congratulations to Brian Lananna, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Dr. Shin Imai’s Lab! Brian received the 2019 John E. Majors Award in honor of Dr. John Majors. The Majors award was created in 2018 to recognize the outstanding accomplishments in research and teaching. Dr. Johns Majors was a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular […]
Congratulations to Dr. David Ornitz! David M. Ornitz, M.D., Ph.D., Alumni Endowed Professor of Developmental Biology and Dr. Robert Gereau, Ph.D., the Dr. Seymour and Rose T Brown Prof of Anesthesiology received a two-year, $100,000 grant award from the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders starting January 1, 2020, for their project entitled “Determining the pathogenic […]
Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Morris, Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics, on her three new awards! Two year $183,334 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative award as a sub-agreement with Massachusetts General Hospital beginning July 1, 2019 for her project entitled “Single-cell resolution of cell lineages and states based on chromatin accessibility combined with CellTagging or somatic mutations”. […]
Congratulations to Brian Egan! Brian Egan, graduate student in Dr. Kerry Kornfeld’s Lab, has been selected to receive the 2019-2020 Irving Boime Graduate Student Fellowship! This fellowship is made possible by scientific discoveries by Professor Boime and his trainees that extend longevity of proteins in vivo and led to development of Elonva, a recombinant human […]
Congratulations to Dr. David Ornitz, Alumni Endowed Professor of Developmental Biology! He has been elected a 2019 AAAS Fellow. “In order to be considered for the rank of Fellow, a AAAS member must be nominated by three previously elected Fellows, the steering group of a AAAS section, or the organization’s CEO. Nominations go through a […]
Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Morris, Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics. She has been awarded the 2020 Distinguished Investigator Award. To learn more, click here
Mayssa Mokalled, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology, has received a five-year, $1,936,562 grant award from The NIH/NINDS starting 9/30/2019 for her project entitled “Mechanisms of glial bridging and neurogenesis during spinal cord regeneration in zebrafish”
Dr. Thorold Theunissen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology has received a five-year $2,361,375 New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences beginning September 30, 2019 for his project entitled “Resolving epigenetic instability during pluripotent state transitions: a roadmap for exploiting the biomedical potential of dynamic human stem […]
Congratulations to Dr. Kristen Kroll! Dr. Kristen L. Kroll, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Developmental Biology has received a one-year $150,000 subaward through Harvard Medical School, Undiagnosed Disease Network beginning July 1, 2019 for her project entitled “Using human pluripotent stem cell models to evaluate pathogenicity and define disease mechanisms for ZNF292 variant found in UDN373964”.
Isa Roszko, Scientist in the Lila Solnica-Krezel laboratory received FEBS Letters First Level Poster Prize at the 14th International Zebrafish Conference in Suzhou, China. Congratulations Isa!