Yen-Chen and Salome were awarded the GSBS Career Development Award.
Maeve's paper is accepted to Journal of Biological Chemistry (article).
Salome presents a poster at the Boston Interactive Glia Group Meeting.
Daryl is awarded an NIH R01 grant "Disruption of nucleocytoplasmic transport in FUS-related neurodegenerative diseases” (Role: MPI with Dr. Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne at MGH).
April
Daryl is awarded a grant from the Riccio Fund for Neuroscience : " Investigating microglial dysfunction induced by ALS-PFN1". (Role: MPI with Dori Schafer at UMMS)
February
Desiree's translational repression paper is accepted to Human Molecular Genetics (article).
2018
December
Daryl publishes an invited commentary in PNAS (article).
August
Daryl is awarded a Healey Award for "Investigating traumatic brain injury (TBI)-induced neurodegeneration". (Role: MPI)
Maeve successfully defends her PhD thesis!
FDA approves first drug to use RNA interference for the treatment of peripheral nerve disease , based on discoveries made at UMass Medical School.
July
Sundar passes his qualifying exam!
May
Salome passes her qualifying exam!
April
Daryl is awarded a grant from the Riccio Fund for Neuroscience : " Investigating microglial dysfunction induced by ALS-PFN1". (Role: MPI)
2017
October
Yen-Chen gives a talk at the UMMS Annual Basic Biomedical Sciences Retreat!
September
Siva successfully defends his PhD thesis!
August
Daryl receives the Angel Award from the Angel Fund for her dedication to ALS research!
Frank's poster takes 3rd place at the Combined Summer Undergraduate Research Program Poster Session at UMMS!