Department News

Congratulations to Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, former Chair of the Department of Developmental Biology! Dr. Gordon has won the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. Gordon is being honored for spearheading the discovery and understanding of the human microbiome, the vast collection of microbes that live in and on the body […]

Congratulations to Dr. Tony Tsai! Tony Tsai, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology, has been named a 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. Click here to see the 2023 Class of Pew Scholars

Congratulations to Dr. Stacey Rentschler! The ASCI is an honor society of physician-scientists founded in 1908, now the Society is home to over 3,000 members active across academic medicine and industry.

Congratulations to Dr. Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, Alan A and Edith L Wolff Distinguished Professor and Head of Developmental Biology, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The Academy has announced the members elected in 2023. The American Academy of Arts & Sciences is both an honorary society that recognizes and celebrates the excellence […]

Congratulations to Adelita Mendoza, Postdoc Research Associate in Dr. Kerry Kornfeld’s Lab, has been selected to receive an Outstanding Postdoc Mentor Award on March 20, 2023 from the Washington University Postdoc Society during the 18th Annual Postdoc Symposium. Dr. Mendoza was nominated by twelve of her mentees and colleagues.

Congratulations to Brian Lananna, Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Dr. Shin Imai’s Lab! Brian Lananna,  Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scholar, has received a three-year $215,478 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the NIH/NIA beginning January 1, 2023 for his project entitled “Investigating a role for eNAMPT-containing extracellular vesicles in mitigating age-and Alzheimer Disease-related cognitive decline”.

Congratulations to Dr. Helen McNeill! Dr. Helen McNeill, Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Biology, has received a five-year $2,840,254 grant award from the NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development beginning December 15, 2022 for her project entitled “Dissecting the function of Nemp1, a nuclear envelope protein critical for mammalian fertility”.

Congratulations to Maddy Ryan! Maddy Ryan, Postbaccalaureate Researcher in Tony Tsai’s Lab, was awarded the Viktor Hamburger Award for Best Student Oral Presentation for her talk “An adhesion code coordinates precise pattern formation and proper morphogenesis of the zebrafish neural tube.”

Congratulations to Abira Ganguly! Abira Ganguly, Ph.D., Postdoc Research Associate in Helen McNeill’s Lab, was awarded the Viktor Hamburger Award for Best Postdoc Oral Presentation for her talk “Nemp1 regulates mechanotransduction responses to substrate stiffness by controlling Yap1 and rescues fertility in a mechanically soft ovary model”

Congratulations to Didier Hodzic! Didier Hodzic, Associate Professor in Dr. Helen McNeill’s Lab, was awarded the Rita Levi-Montalcini Award for Best Instructor Poster Presentation for his poster “The inner nuclear membrane protein NEMP1 supports nuclear envelope openings and enucleation of erythroblasts”.