2016

A warm welcome to our new lab member, Wanwei Zhang (Postdoc)

Uttiya has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.

Uttiya awarded "Young Investigator in Cancer Research" award by Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance, USA (Video links: http://tinyurl.com/uttiya-PSSCRP ,http://tinyurl.com/PSSCRP2016 ).

Jianbo Sun accepts a Assistant Professor position at Sun Yat-sen University,China.

Brice Laffleur awarded "EMBO postdoctoral fellowship" by EMBO.

2015

​A warm welcome to our two new lab members, Brice Laffleur (Postdoc) and Annabelle B. Blum (Masters` Student)

Uttiya awarded "Leukemia and Lymphoma society" scholar by leukemia and lymphoma Society of America, USA.

RNA exosome paper accepted in Cell!

​David defends thesis!

Evangelos Pefanis awarded 2015 "Richard Parker Graduate Student" award for outstanding and innovative work.

Evangelos Pefanis awarded 2015 "Dean's Award" for Excellence in Research.

Gerson write News and views article in Cell!

2014

Angelo defends thesis!

Paper on mechanism of AID targeting and RNA exosome published in Nature!

Jaime Chao accepted to graduate school in University of Chicago.

Jaime publishes review on ubiquitination pathways in antibody gene recombination mechanisms in Frontiers in Immunology!Jianbo publishes review

2013

Lab paper on AID-associated RNA polymerase II stalling mechanisms published in Genes and development.

Celia's review on AID targeting mechanisms published in Genes and Development.

2012

Lab awarded 1R01 grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID).

Celia Keim awarded 2012 "Richard Parker Graduate Student" award for outstanding and innovative work.

David Kazadi awarded F31 fellowship to cover his graduate and medical school studies by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID).

Celia defends her Ph.D. thesis successfully!

2011

Uttiya awarded NIH Director’s Innovator award by by NIH director's office.

Uttiya awarded “Irma Hirschl Fellow” by Irma Hirschl-Monique Weill-Caulier Trust, New York, USA.

Lab awarded NIH Director’s Innovator (1DP2) grant by NIGMS/NIH.

Lab awarded “Irma T. Hirschl” grant by Irma T. Hirschl-Monique Weill-Caulier Trust,NewYork( 2011- 2016)-This project is directed toward identifying long non-coding RNAs that regulate B and T cell function.

​Veronika gets accepted in graduate program at Columbia.

2010

Uttiya awarded “New Investigator Award” by Leukemia Research Foundation,USA.

Paper on AID activity regulation by RNA exosome complex accepted for publication in Cell!

Lab awarded “Leukemia Research Foundation” grant (2010-2011)-The major goal of this project was to identify the oncogenic properties of the RNA exosome complex in B cells

2009

Evangelos Pefanis awarded fellowship to cover his graduate studies by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, NY.