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We are delighted to announce that Geoffrey Goodhill, Ph.D., will be joining Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis on January 1, 2021, to be dually appointed as Professor in the departments of Developmental Biology and Neuroscience. In his interdisciplinary research Dr. Goodhill combines mathematical and experimental approaches to investigate the computational principles underlying […]

Margot Williams, Ph.D., a former Postdoctoral Fellow in Lila Solnica-Krezel’s laboratory, received the IZFS 2020 Chi-Bin Chien Award. Margot is currently an Assistant Professor in the Center for Precision Environmental Health and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Baylor College of Medicine. Her outstanding research contributions and dedication to the zebrafish field truly […]

Congratulations to Mitsukuni Yoshida! Mitsukuni Yoshida, a MSTP student in Dr. Shin Imai’s laboratory in the Neuroscience Program, has received the 2020 Needleman Prize! The Needleman Prize is presented to a graduating student who has demonstrated outstanding achievements in the field of Pharmacology.

Congratulations to Kel Vin Woo, MD, PhD! Kel Vin Wo, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. David Ornitz’s Lab, has received a $100,000 ENTELLIGENCE Young Investigator Program Award through Actelion Pharmaceuticals for his project entitled “Endothelial Drug Targets for Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension”.

Congratulations to Dr. Kristen Kroll’s Lab on their new publication! Cellular and molecular characterization of multiplex autism in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons. Lewis EMA, Meganathan K, Baldridge D, Gontarz P, Zhang B, Bonni A, Constantino JN, Kroll KL. Mol Autism. 2019 Dec 30;10:51.

Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Johnson’s Lab on their recent publication! FGF signaling directs myotube guidance by regulating Rac activity. Yang S, Weske A, Du Y, Valera JM, Johnson AN. Development. 2020 Jan 13. pii: dev.183624.