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!