September 2024
Welcome to our new postdoctoral fellow Dr. Irene Roy!
July 2024
Welcome to our new PhD student Shane Mitchell!
June 2024
Welcome to our new research technician Rotila Hyka!
May 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Shira Glushakow-Smith for defending her thesis!
April 2023
We have a new publication!
Virginia Folgado Marco, Kristina Ames, Jacky Chuen, Kira Gritsman & Nicholas Baker, Haploinsufficiency of the essential gene RpS12 causes defects in erythropoiesis and hematopoietic stem cell maintenance, BioRxiv 2021, doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.04.442585 (preprint); eLife (in press)
March 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Lindsay Gurska, who won the Julius Marmur Award for outstanding graduate student research!
Check out this video that celebrates Lindsay's PhD journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr2jnvj-Pxk
February 2023
We have a new publication!
Kristina Ames, Imit Kaur, Yang Shi, Meng Tong, Taneisha Sinclair, Shayda Hemmati, Shira G. Glushakow-Smith, Ellen Tein, Lindsay Gurska, Robert Dubin, Jidong Shan, Kith Pradhan, Amit Verma, Cristina Montagna, and Kira Gritsman, Deletion of PI3-Kinase Promotes Myelodysplasia Through Dysregulation of Autophagy in Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Sci Adv. 2023 Feb 22;9(8):eade8222. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ade8222. Epub 2023 Feb 22. PMID: 36812307
December 2022
We have a new publication!
Gurska, L.M., Okabe, R., Schurer, A., Tong, M.M., Soto, M., Choi, D., Ames, K., Glushakow-Smith, S., Montoya, A., Tein, E., Miles, L.A., Cheng, H., Hankey-Giblin, P., Levine, R.L., Goel, S., Halmos, B., and Gritsman, K. Crizotinib has Preclinical Efficacy in Philadelphia-negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, Clinical Cancer Research 2022 Dec 20:CCR-22-1763. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-22-1763. PMID: 36537918
October 2022
Welcome to our new postdoctoral fellow Dr. Laxmi Swetha Karanam!
September 2022
Welcome to our new PhD student Mark Soto!
July 2022
We just received a new R01 grant from NIH/NIDDK to study the roles of PI3 kinase in myelodysplastic syndrome!
July 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Lindsay Gurska on her successful thesis defense! So proud of our first PhD graduate from the lab!
April 2022
Welcome to our new lab manager Yuxuan Wang!
October 2021
Welcome to our new MSTP students Alexandra Schurer, Kemi Akinnola, and Daniel Borger!
June, 2020
Welcome to our new lab manager Allison Montoya!
January, 2020
Congrats to Lindsay Gurska on her individual F31 graduate fellowship funded by NCI!
July, 2019
Welcome to our new PhD student Shira Glushakow-Smith!
August, 2019
Congrats to Kristina Ames for getting her individual F32 postdoctoral fellowship funded by NHLBI!
June 6, 2016
Welcome to our new lab manager, Meng Tong!
April 1, 2016
We received 5 years of funding from the NIH/NCI to fund our work on PI3 kinase signaling in myeloid leukemia and hematopoietic stem cells!