News
2026
April 2026: Congratulations to Kiley Chen for his acceptance into the Bruins-In-Genomics (B.I.G.) Summer Program!
March 2026: Congratulations to Madison Bang for her acceptance to the Yale MD-PhD program!
February 2026: Congratulations to Nicole Wilkinson for receiving the MIMG Schering Award!
January 2026: Congratulations to Christian, Esther, and Sophia on their Sex Differences in Immunity review!
2025
December 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Chen for his paper in the Journal of Clinical Investigation!
June 2025: Congratulations to Howard Chen for defending his PhD thesis!
June 2025: Congratulations to Madison Bang for receiving the Dean's Prize for Excellence in Science!
May 2025: Congratulations to Ethan McCarthy for his acceptance to the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program!
February 2025: We are excited to be part of the Autoimmunity Centers of Excellence.
2024
August 2024: Congratulations to Christian Bustillos for receiving an NIH diversity supplement!
August 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Seyedsadr for her paper in the Journal of Clinical Investigation!
June 2024: We are excited to have our NEJM commentary featured in a LinkedIn post.
June 2024: Congratulations to Howard Chen for receiving the AAI Young Investigator Award for his oral presentation
June 2024: Congratulations to Christian Bustillos for a winning travel award to the Sex Differences in Immunity Conference in Dublin, Ireland.
May 2024: Congratulations to Nicole Wilkinson for Whitcome Fellowship!
2023
August 2023: Congratulations to Madison Bang for her acceptance into the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program!
May 2023: Dr. Lechner's paper in the news!
May 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Lechner for her paper in Science Translational Medicine!
April 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Cheng for having her paper featured on the cover of Nature Immunology!
February 2023: Congratulations to Mandy Cheng for defending her PhD thesis.
February 2023: We are happy to be part of the Sex Differences GRC in Ventura April 2023!
2022
September 2022: We are excited that Mandy Cheng’s preprint was highlighted in the “Preprint Watch” of Nature Reviews Immunology.
August 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Lechner’s feature in the “Top Reads” of the Journal of Immunology.
July 2022: Congratulations to Mandy Cheng for winning the Mitsuo Takasugi Award and MIMG Schering Award!
June 2022: Congratulations to Shirley Zhang for receiving a Cellular and Molecular Biology T32 Training Grant!
June 2022: Congratulations to Ethan McCarthy for winning a Dean's Prize in Undergraduate Research!
May 2022: Congratulations to Mandy Cheng for presenting at the Immune Regulation-Innate Immune Responses Symposium!
March 2022: Congratulations to Mandy Cheng for winning the AAI Abstract award!
2021
August 2021: Congratulations to Anushi Patel for getting accepted into the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program!
June 2021: Congratulations to Xihui Yin for winning the Arthur K. Asbury prize at the PNS conference!
March 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Lechner for winning the top abstract competition!
2020
October 2020: Congratulations to Lily Guo for her acceptance to medical school!
Sept 2020: Congratulations to Xihui Yin for getting accepted into the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program!
July 2020: Good luck to Natalie Yakobian in medical school!
June 2020: Congratulations to Xihui Yin for receiving the Whitcome Fellowship!
June 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Lechner for receiving an American Thyroid Association (ATA) grant!
June 2020: Congratulations to Mandy Cheng for receiving the Cellular and Molecular Biology (CMB) training grant!
June 2020: Congratulations to Mandy Cheng for receiving the Whitcome Predoctoral Fellowship!
May 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Kohn for receiving the A.P. Giannini Foundation Fellowship!