April 8, 2025
Nicole Teaney Awarded NSF GRFP Fellowship! We’re thrilled to share that Neuroscience PhD student Nicole Teaney has been selected for the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)! Nicole will be developing innovative in vitro models to study neurodegenerative diseases of the spinal cord. The GRFP is always highly competitive, but with this year’s significant funding cuts—resulting in fewer than 1,000 awards (less than half the typical number)—this achievement is even more remarkable. We are extra proud of Nicole and can't wait to see the impact of her research!
March 3, 2025
We are growing! We’re excited to welcome Nicole Teaney to the lab as a PhD student! Nicole joins us with a background in Neuroscience from Stonehill College and brings valuable experience from her time as a research technician at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she worked with patient-derived iPSCs to model neurological diseases. We’re thrilled to have her on board helping us develop models for neurodegenerative disease.
January 13, 2025
Warm welcomes! Neuroscience PhD student Lina Oh joins us for her third research rotation.
January 6, 2025
We are growing! We’re excited to welcome several new members to the lab! Undergraduates Rola Kazaer and Yan Kolpakov (Biomedical Engineering) and Lucy Moss (Biology) are joining us to contribute to our ongoing research efforts by Emily and Zhixin. We’re also thrilled to have Niyera Mitchell and Ishaan Tiwari join as lab technicians, supporting our gene editing and organoid projects.
December 13, 2024
We are celebrating! Congratulations to India on winning a Tufts Graduate Student Research Competition award! She will be using the funds to develop scalable methods to generate Schwann cells, the glial cells of the peripheral nervous system.
December 11, 2024
We are celebrating! Congrats to Emily for receiving a travel award from Tufts' Dean's office to attend the 2024 BMES Meeting!
November 22, 2024
We are celebrating! Congrats to Farsin and Kara on winning Tufts Undergraduate Research Funds! They will be using these funds to develop gene edited cell lines for reporter expression.
October 23-26, 2024
BMES 2024: Nisha, Zhixin, Natalie and Emily will be attending the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting 2024 in Baltimore, MD. Everyone has a packed schedule! Nisha is session chair for Cell Engineering Thursday morning. Natalie and Emily are presenting posters on Thursday and Friday respectively. Zhixin is presenting her first oral presentation on Saturday afternoon! We are so excited to see great science and friends!