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Lab News

2018

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!
July
  • Salome joins the lab!
May
  • UMass Med Now runs an article featuring Jeanne!
March
  • A profile of Jeanne is featured by the ALS Association (ALSA)!
  • Sundar joins the lab!
  • Daryl is awarded Pilot Project Program funding from UMMS: Novel ‘Nanobodies’ as a Diagnosis and Therapeutic for       
     ALS! (Role: PI).
January
  • Reddy and Jeanne's paper is accepted to Scientific Reports (article).

2016

December - Daryl Gets Tenure!!

June
  • Jeanne is awarded a grant from the ALS Association: Disruption of actin dynamics as a pathogenic mechanism in ALS (Role: PI).
May
  • Yen-Chen passes her qualifying exam!
January
  • Heather joins the lab!

2015

December
  • Katie joins the lab! 
  • Jeanne's contributing research is published in Neuron (article).
September
  • Daryl is awarded an R21 from NIH/NINDS: Investigating the response of FUS/TLS to excitotoxic insult! (Role: PI).
  • Victoria joins the lab!
August
  • Laura obtains her Master's Degree!
  • Maeve was awarded the Riccio-GSBS Travel Award!
June
  • Melissa successfully defends her PhD thesis!
May
  • Yen-Chen joins the lab!
  • Eric passes his qualifying exam!
  • Siva's paper is accepted to PNAS  (article).
March
  • Jeanne joins the lab!

2014

December
  • Maeve is awarded the Zelda Haidek Memorial Scholarship!
October
  • Catherine's paper is accepted to Cell Death and Disease (article).
  • Eric joins the lab!
September
  • Daryl is awarded an R01 from NIH/NINDS: Misfolded ALS-linked Profilin-1: a novel therapeutic target! (Role: PI).
August 
  • Melissa's paper is accepted to Journal of Biological Chemistry (article).
  • Daryl accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge from Dr. David Weaver (video).
July
  • Catherine successfully defends her PhD thesis!
June
  • Melissa gives a talk at the annual BMP department retreat!
May 
  • Catherine and Reddy's FUS review is accepted for ASN Neuro (article).
April
  • Maeve passes her qualifying exam!
March
  • Reddy successfully defends his PhD thesis!
  • Daryl is promoted to Associate Professor!
February

2013

August
November
  • Melissa's SOD1 review is accepted for Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience (article).
June 
  • Maeve joins the lab!
May 
April
  • Reddy's FUS-Hyperosmolar Stress paper is accepted for Journal of Cellular Physiology and makes it to the cover (article).

2012

August
  • Mutations in Profilin 1 are linked to ALS (article).
July 
  • Daryl is awarded an R01 from NIH/NINDS: High throughput screening for Compounds to Mitigate Toxicity of FUS/TLS & SOD1           
    (Role: Co-PI).
May
  • Siva and Laura pass their qualifying exams!
April
  • Daryl is awarded an R01 from NIH/NINDS: Investigating a Toxic Gain-of-Interaction between FUS/TLS & Stress Granules! (Role: PI).
January
  • Kristin joins the lab!

2011

July
  • Desiree joins the lab!
June
  • Siva joins the lab!
January
  • Reddy joins the lab!

2010

October
  • SOD1 is linked to sporadic ALS (article).

July
  • Daryl is awarded an R01 from NIH/NINDS: Investigation of Post-Translational Modifications in Wild-Type SOD1 in Sporadic ALS! (Role: PI).
May
  • Daryl is guest speaker at ICOSA hosted at UMMS. Catherine and Melissa present posters.

2009

November
  • Melissa joins the lab!
March
  • Catherine joins the lab!
February 
  • Mutations in FUS are linked to ALS (article).

2008

  • Nathan joins the lab!

October - Bosco Lab Opens At UMMS!!