🎊 Dr. Meng-Wei Ko presented her work entitled “Integrating PSC-Reporters, single cell transcriptomics and transplantation to identify functional PSC-HSC” at 5th symposium on Human pluripotent stem cell-derived hematopoiesis in Frankfurt. Nicely done, Meng-Wei!!
🎉 Welcome, Manvitha Cherukuri back to the lab as our new Research Assistant! Continue her awesome work to the PSC-HSC project!!!
🎊 Paul Mack has been awarded the HIP Graduate Student Award by American Society of Hematology. Congrats Paul!! Announcement
🎉 Welcome, Lucy Merickel joining the lab as our new graduate student! Lucy had prior training in acute myeloid leukemia and is an expert in animal work. Looking forward to her work in MECOM leukemia project!
🎉 Welcome, Gianna Zheng joining the lab as an enthusiastic undergraduate researcher! We are exciting to have more young blood joining our T21 team!!
🎊 Dr. Yuanyuan Wang presented her work entitled “Unraveling Stemness Mechanisms in MECOM Rearranged Acute Myeloid Leukemias” at Keystone Symposia on Hematopoiesis. Great work, Yuanyuan!
🎊 Dr.Stephanie Frenz-Wiessner presented her work co-leading with Dr. Yue Wang at The 66th Annual meeting of American Society of Hematology entitled “Tracing The Origin and Evolution of Myeloid Leukemia in Down Syndrome” and awarded with the prestigious Abstract Achievement Award, Congrats Stephi and Yue!! Announcement
🎊 Dr. Stephanie Frenz-Wiessner together with her collaborators from Heidelberg received the Kind-Philipp Award from the German Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology on her predoctoral work “iPSC-derived bone marrow organdies for modeling bone marrow failure syndromes”, Congrats Stephi!! Announcement
🎊 Dr. Meng-Wei Ko presented her latest work entitled “HLF and MYCT1 Reporters Enable The Guided Maturation of PSC-HSC” on 6th International Conference on Stem Cells, Kalimera Kriti Conference Center in Sissi, Crete, Greece. Great job, Meng-Wei!!
🎊 Dr.Yue Wang has been awarded as a career development program fellow by The Lymphoma and Leukemia Society (LLS), project title “Unraveling the Cellular and Molecular Origins of B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Down syndrome”. Congrats Yue!! Announcement
🎊 Dr. Stephanie Frenz-Wiessner presenting the work co-led by Dr. Yue Wang as a poster entitled “Tracing the Origin and Evolution of Myeloid Leukemia in Down Syndrome”, at the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Experimental Hematology in Kumamoto, Japan. Congrats to Stephi and Yue on the progress of the project!!
🎊 Dr. Yuanyuan Wang presented her work entitled “Unraveling the Stemness Program in MECOM Rearranged Acute Myeloid Leukemias” at The American Cancer Society-Lisa Dean Modeley Foundtation. Great work, Yuanyuan!
🎊 Dr. Stephanie Frenz-Wiessner has been awarded from Munich University Association for her outstanding dissertation . Congrats Stephi!! Announcement
🎉 Welcome, Vivien Su to the lab! Here’s to an thriling 5 weeks or years(?) of joy and good science!!!
🎊 Dr. Meng-Wei Ko has been awarded the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Scholar Award. Congrats Meng-Wei!! ASH Announcement
🎉 Welcome, Manvitha Cherukuri and Telly Do, to the lab! Here’s to an exciting journey of learning and exploration!!!
🎊 Paul Mack successfully presented a poster at the 2024 Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology (MCDB) Annual Retreat. Good job on presenting “Cellular and Molecular Underpinnings of Leukemia Predisposition in Trisomy 21 across Development”
🎊 Dr. Stephanie Frenz-Wiessner has been awarded the Walter Benjamin Fellowship by the German Research Foundation. Congrats Stephi!!
🎊 Congratulations to Dr. Diana Dou on a new appointment as an Assistant Professor at Duke University
🎉 Welcome Dr. Stephanie Frenz-Wissener, Pediatric Hematology and Bone Marrow Organoid expert, to the lab!!!
🎊 Dr. Yue Wang has been awarded the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Postdoctoral Award. Congrats Yue!!
🎊 Dr. Yuanyuan Wang has been awarded the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Postdoctoral Award. Congrats Yuanyuan!
🎊 Paul Mack has been awarded the T32 Fellowship. Congrats Paul!!
🎊 Dr. Júlia Aguadé-Gorgorió has been awarded the first Arnold J Berk Research Achievement Award! Congratulations Julia!!
🎊 “MYCT1 controls environmental sensing in human haematopoietic stem cells” published in Nature. Congrats to Júlia and the co-authors on a great job!! UCLA Newsroom
🎊 Dr. Meng-Wei Ko won the trainee Poster Award at the 2024 UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Annual Retreat. Good job on presenting “Improving human PSC-HSC functional maturation”
🎉 Welcome Dr. Yuanyuan Wang, Environmental Science expert, to the lab!!!!
🎊 Congratulations to Dr. Vincenzo Calvanese on a new appointment as a Group Leader at Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
🎊 Congratulations Dr. Anastastia Vavilina-Halstead on your thesis defense!
🎊 Dr. Meng-Wei Ko has been awarded the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Postdoctoral Award. Congrats Meng-Wei!
🎉 Welcome Ilse Kaaja, Visiting Scholar from University of Helsinki, Finland, to the lab!!!!
🎉 Welcome Paul Mack as a graduate student to the lab!
🎉 Welcome Dr. Yue Wang, the mouse placenta expert, to the lab!!!
🎉 Welcome Dr. Meng-Wei Ko, NK cell and stem cell enthusiast, to the lab!!!
🎊 “Mapping human haematopoietic stem cells from haemogenic endothelium to birth” published in Nature. Congrats to Vinny, Sandra and Feiyang and the co-authors on a great job!! UCLA Newsroom
🎊 Dr. Fides Lay has been awarded the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Basic Cancer Research Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congrats Fides!
🎊 Dr. Fides Lay has been awarded the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Fellowship. Congrats Fides!
🎉 Dr. Fides Lay officially begins her postdoctoral training in the Mikkola lab. She completed her PhD in the lab of Dr. Peter Jones at USC where she studied the epigenetic regulation of cancer. Welcome Fides!
🎊 Dr. Fides Lay has been awarded the UCLA Institute of Quantitative & Computational Biosciences Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. Congrats Fides!
🎊 Diana Dou received the Poster Award at the 2015 UCLA MCDB Retreat. Congrats Diana!
🎊 Diana Dou receives 1st place honors for the ISEH New Investigator Dirk van Bekkum Graduate Student award at the 44th Annual International Society of Experimental Hematology in Kyoto, Japan. Congrats Diana!
🎊 Wenyun Wang and Dan Duan have been awarded the UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship. Good luck to Wenyuan and Dan with your doctoral dissertations!
🎊 Christiana Yuan has been awarded the UCLA Vascular Biology Training Grant. Congrats Chris!
🎊 Andrew Nguyen has been awarded the UCLA Undergraduate Research Scholars Program Award. Congrats Andrew!
🎊 Vincenzo Calvanese has been awarded the Broad Stem Cell Research Center Stem Cell Training Grant. Congrats Vincenzo!
🎊 Timothy Bolan has been awarded the UCLA Biomedical Research Summer Scholarship. Congrats Tim!
🎊 Edo Israely has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association. Congrats Edo!
🎊 Wenyuan Wang received 1st place for the best poster at the UCLA, USC, and UCSF Tri-institutional Stem Cell Retreat. Great job Wenyuan!
🎊 Wenyuan Wang has been awarded the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute Dissertation Year Award. Congratulations Wenyan!
🎊 Andrew Nguyen has been named a 2015 Honorable Barry Goldwater Scholar. Congrats Andrew!
🎊 Andrew Nguyen has been named the Assistant Managing Editor of Research for the UCLA Undergraduate Science Journal. Congrats Andrew!
🎊 Wenyuan Wang is 1 of 5 predoctoral scholars to receive the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine & Broad Stem Cell Research Center Pre-doctoral Training Grant. Congrats Wenyuan!
🎊 Wenyuan Wang and her team received 1st place at the 2014 UCLA Business of Science Center Annual Venture Competition. Program Description: In partnership with the Office of Intellectual Property, UCLA Business of Science Center holds an annual venture competition, where graduate students form teams to evaluate the commercial potential of emerging UCLA technologies. In 2014, Wenyuan and her team won the 1st Place and a $30,000 non-dilutive funding with their business plan for the NAC technology derived from Dr. Jewett’s lab.
🎊 Andrew Nguyen is named 1 of 2 UCLA Beckman Scholars from the national Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Congrats Andrew!
🎊 Wenyuan Wang received her UCLA Leadership Certificate in the Business of Science. Congrats Wenyuan!
🎊 Diana Dou received the Poster Award at the 2014 UCLA Molecular Biology Institute Retreat. Congrats Diana!
🎊 Andrew Nguyen has been accepted into the UCLA Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program. Congrats Andrew!
🎊 Andrew Nguyen has been awarded the Honors Programs Irving and Jean Stone Research Award. Congrats Andrew!
🎊 Edo Israely is 1 of 4 Postdoctoral trainees to have been awarded the Postdoctoral Training Grant from the UCLA Tumor Cell Biology Training Program. Congrats Edo!
🎊 Diana Dou has been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Fellowship. Congrats Diana!
🎊 Wenyuan Wang has been awarded the Broad Stem Cell Research Center and California Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s Pre-doctoral Training Grant. Congrats Wenyuan!
🎊 Vincenzo Calvanese has been granted the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Special Fellowship Award. Congrats Vincenzo!
🎊 Wenyuan Wang has been awarded the Abstract Award at the 54th Annual American Society of Hematology Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Congrats Wenyuan!
🎊 Diana Dou has been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award GM007185 from the UCLA Cell & Molecular Biology Training Program. Congrats Diana!
🎊 Wenyuan Wang has been awarded the Philip Whitecome Pre-doctoral Training Grant. Congrats Wenyuan!