Congratulations to Yuxiao Xu and Billy Liu! Yuxiao Xu, Graduate Research Assistant in Dr. Mayssa Mokalled’s Lab, and Billy Liu, Graduate Research Assistant in Dr. Kerry Kornfeld’s Lab, have been selected to receive the 2024 Irving Boime Graduate Student Fellowship Award! This fellowship is made possible by scientific discoveries by Professor Boime and his trainees […]
Congratulations to Jake Adelman! Jake Adelman, Staff Scientist in Dr. Liz Pollina’s Lab, has received the 2024 Aaron DiAntonio Staff/Senior Scientist Scholarship Award.
Congratulations to Gareth Chapman, Shilpa Padmanaban, and Hui Zhang! The Department of Developmental Biology 2024 Postdoctoral Fellow Seed of Independence Grant has been awarded to Gareth Chapman (Kroll Lab), Shilpa Padmanaban (Pollina Lab), and Hui Zhang (McNeill Lab)
Congratulations to Ji-Sun Kwon, Graduate Student in Yoo Lab, on winning the Rita Levi-Montalcini Award for Best Poster Presentation at the 2024 DRSCB Retreat
Congratulations to Plus Chiu, DevBio student in Tsai Lab, and Kentaro Mori PhD., Postdoc Researcher in Imai Lab, on winning the Viktor Hamburger Awards for Best Student and Best Postdoc Oral Presentation, respectively, at the 2024 DRSCB Retreat
Chase Weinholtz, a graduate student from the Mokalled lab, received the Tom Thach Award for his platform presentation at the Neuroscience Retreat.
Congratulations to Dr. Liz Pollina! Elizabeth Pollina, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology, has received a five year $500,000 grant award from the Rita Allen Foundation beginning September 1, 2024 for her project entitled “Stimulus-dependent Genome Integrity in Neuronal Plasticity and Disease”
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Yoo! Andrew Yoo, Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Biology, has been honored with the Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF) Transformative Research Award.This prestigious award includes support of $1.1 million over two years which he is sharing with another PI at Columbia University.
Congratulations to Mayssa Mokalled, PhD., Associate Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology and her lab on their research. From the article publish by the Washington University School of Medicine: “A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis maps out a detailed atlas of all the cells involved — and how […]
Congratulations to Joowon Um! Joowon Um, Graduate Research Assistant in Dr. Elizabeth Pollina’s Lab, have been named as a Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellow (DDGF)