Eugene wins a Young Physician-Scientist Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation!! A big congrats to Eugene for this so well deserved honor!!

December 20, 2024

Liz’s abstract was selected as Best of ASH!!! Only a hand full of abstracts among literally thousands get this level of recognition. Congrats again to Liz and to everyone involved in this beautiful work!!

December 10, 2024

Nick and Liz gave beautiful talks at ASH! The moderator at Nick’s session was none other than our famous alumnus Scott!! Liz’s podium was next to the emergency exit but no one ran away while she talked!!

December 8, 2024

Rahul was accepted into the ASH-EHA-TRTH program!! Anyone understand this acronym soup? It stands for American Society of Hematology European Hematology Association Translational Research Training in Hematology (it says Hematology three times). This a very competitive program. We all feel sorry for Rahul now since he will have to spend some time in Paris in the spring and then in Milan the following year.

December 4, 2024

Nick’s paper is accepted at Molecular Cell!! 🎉 🎊 🥂 Fantastic work, Nick!

November 15, 2024

Abhirup, Eugene, Liz and Paul gave great talks and posters at the hemoglobin switching meeting in Puerto Rico!

November 13, 2024

Nick won an ASH abstract award for his fantastic work on LDB1!!

October 17, 2024

Nick won a best poster award at the annual retreat of the Epigenetics Institute. A big congrats, Nick!!

October 29, 2024

Liz got yet another award! Can you believe it? This time she was awarded the inaugural Edmunds Family Faculty Fellowship for outstanding clinician scientists. A huge congrats Liz!! Amazing!

October 6, 2024

Raymond was appointed to the Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics training grant! Congrats, Raymond! Fantastic job writing the proposal!!

July 9, 2024

Beautiful talks and posters from Abhirup, Liz and Paul, and great moderation by Eugene and Scott at the Philadelphia Red Cell Meeting!

October 16, 2024

Jessica did a wonderful job at her thesis talk and defense! Congrats, Jessica! We will miss you very much! Please visit us often!!

June 28, 2024

Nick got an F31 pre-doctoral fellowship!! A big congrats!! Can there ever be too much good news?? You are killing it!

June 26, 2024

Abhirup was selected for a postdoctoral fellowship from the Cooley's Anemia Foundation. Fantastic news and a big congrats!! 🥂🥂🎊🎉

June 12, 2024

Raymond passed his pre-lim!! A big congrats! The road ahead is clear now for a great PhD project.

May 23, 2024

A huge congrats to Rahul for being selected as a Scholar in Molecular Medicine. Amazing achievement 🎉 🎺 🍾

April 22, 2024

A big welcome to Nithin Sam, a new postdoctoral fellow!

March 18, 2024

Rahul received a Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Award!!! An amazing accomplishment and huge honor! 🥂 🎯 👊 🎊 🎉

March 1, 2024

A huge congrats to Liz for receiving the ASCI's 2024 Emerging-Generation Award! Great honor! 🥂 🎯 👊 🎊 🎉

January 12, 2024

A big welcome to Luisa Mori, a new postdoctoral fellow

January 8, 2024

A big welcome to Umer Farooq, a new postdoctoral fellow

September 26, 2023

A big welcome to Abhirup Bagchi, a new postdoctoral fellow

July 17, 2023

Paul passed his prelim with flying colors!! No one expected otherwise but a big congrats, Paul!

June 1, 2023

Kunhua is leaving us today to start his own group at Tianjin Medical University. He will be missed. We look forward to following his career and hope to keep in touch. His new email address is kunhuaqin@hotmail.com.

May 10, 2023

Another huge congrats to Liz for being awarded the ASH Research Training Award. She is killing it 🎉 🎺 🍾

April 21, 2023

A huge congrats to Liz for being selected as a Scholar in Molecular Medicine 🎉 🎺 🍾

March 31, 2023

Kunhua’s paper came out online. Now we know how Polycomb group proteins control hemoglobin gene switching. Congrats to all involved!

March 9, 2023

Marit’s paper in Molecular Cell came out along with a great preview by Marjorie Brand! A new class of regulatory elements: self-limiting transient enhancers that modulate gene silencing.

March 2, 2023

What determines the direction in which genes transcribe? Jing's and Marit’s latest paper in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology tells us that CTCF restricts transcription initiation of numerous upstream antisense promoters!

November 11, 2022

Peng left us :-( and took a position as Professor at Guangzhou Medical University, China :-). Please stay in touch and visit often!

November 2022

Celebrations are in order for Eugene as newly minted Assistant Professor at CHOP/Upenn!! Delighted that he will stay around!

July 2022