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12/2023 Welcome Nikita Modi, MS, PhD as a new postdoctoral fellow in the lab!

12/2023 Congratulations Yongdong for being awarded the Fall 2023 Winship Postdoctoral Scholar Award!

11/2023 Congrats to Anna McKee, PhD for being awarded a Georgia Tech Computational Biology Faculty Research Award!

9/2023 Congrats to the lab and collaborators for the NIH X01 application being selected for the Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program (Kids First)!

9/2023 Congrats Katie on her published review on the genetics of ABCB1!

8/2023 Welcome Anna McKee, PhD who is pursuing a Masters in bioinformatics!

8/2023 Welcome Ian Morris as an undergraduate researcher in the lab!

7/2023 Congrats to Garrett for getting his Notice of Award (NOA) for the NCI Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31) Award!

6/2023 Congrats to Katie for passing her PhD qualifying exam!

5/2023 Congrats to Sean Maholtra for being accepted into the Fred Hutch Cancer Center's Infectious Disease Sciences Summer Scholar Internship!

5/2023 Congrats Garrett Cooper for being selected for the ALSF Data Lab Single-Cell RNA-Seq Workshop!

5/2023 Congrats to medical school graduate Dr. Dami Taiwo, and undergraduates: Frank Feng, Antara Palkar and Josh Reimbauer!

4/2023 Congratulations Yongdong Su, MS, PhD for being awarded the DoD CDMRP KCRP Postdoctoral and Clinical Fellowship!

3/2023 Congratulations Antara Palkar for being awarded highest honors for her Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Honors thesis!

3/2023 Congratulations Antara Palkar for being selected as an Emory 100 Senior Honorary member!

3/2023 Congratulations Jessica Yoon for being awarded the ALSF POST Medical Student Award!

3/2023 Thank you Garrett for being a part of the ATL Science Festival this year!

3/2023 Congrats Garrett Cooper for being asked to give an oral presentation at the 2023 Laney GDBBS Graduate Student Symposium!

3/2023 Congratulations Dami Taiwo on the NRMP Match and matching at Emory’s Neurology program!

3/2023 Congrats Katie Skinner for being selected for the ALSF Data Lab Advanced Single-Cell RNA-Seq Workshop!

1/2023 Welcome Juhye Yim as a PhD rotation student from the Cancer Biology Program!

12/2022 Feature on Dami’s work through ALSF on health disparities in ST/NO patients in the AJC!

12/2022 Grateful to the DoD CDMRP KCRP for recommending our grant for funding!

11/2022 Welcome Isabel Petrescu as a PhD rotation student from the Genetics and Molecular Biology Program!

08/2022 Welcome Frank Feng as a 4+1 CBTO student to the lab!

08/2022 Welcome Jessica Yoon as an undergraduate student researcher to the lab!

07/2022 Congrats Garrett on his published review on SMARCB1 deficient cancers!

07/2022 Congrats to Garrett for being appointed a 2nd year on the T32 Training Program in Genetics!

07/2022 Congrats Yongdong on his published review on renal medullary carcinomas!

07/2022 Welcome Frank Feng as a 4+1 CBTO rotation student from Cancer Biology!

07/2022 Welcome Victor Chen as a new Research Specialist to the lab!

06/2022 Welcome Sydney Nelson as a MD/PhD rotation student from the Genetics and Molecular Biology program!

5/2022 Congrats to Garrett for passing his PhD qualifying exam!

5/2022 Welcome Katie officially to the lab as a graduate student!

5/2022 Congrats to Benji who will be leaving for his MD/PhD program at UAB in the summer!

5/2022 Congrats to Simonne and Frances for graduating from Rollins School of Public Health!

4/2022 Congrats to Sean Malhotra for receiving Woodruff Scholars funds for his upcoming summer research!

4/2022 Welcome Sean Malholtra as an undergraduate student researcher to the lab!

4/2022 Incredibly grateful to Rally Foundation for funding our research in Wilms Tumor (a pediatric kidney cancer)! Read the announcement here.

3/2022 Congrats to Antara Palkar for being awarded the Jennifer Lea Evans - Memorial Scholarship from Emory College!

3/2022 Congrats to Dami Taiwo for being awarded the ALSF POST Medical Student Award!

2/2022 Excited to share our newest work on bioRxiv on developing models and identifying therapeutic targets in Wilms Tumor: https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.02.23.481521v1

1/2022 Grateful to Winship Cancer Institute for Pilot Funding for our work in ATRT, MRT and RMC!

12/2021 Welcome Yongdong Su as a new postdoctoral fellow!

11/2021 Welcome Katie Skinner as a PhD rotation student from the Cancer Biology program!

10/2021 Congrats to Karuna for being named Director of Research & Development at PreludeDx! We will miss her but wish her success!

10/2021 Congrats to Andy for being named a William Guy Forbeck Research Scholar!

9/2021 Incredibly grateful to Ian’s Friends Foundation and the Grossenbachers for funding our research in ATRTs (a rare pediatric brain tumor)

7/2021 Congrats to Garrett for being appointed to the T32 Training Program in Genetics

7/2021 Congrats to Karuna for her DoD CDMRP Postdoctoral Fellowship being recommended for funding

7/2021 And it’s published - see the publications tab

6/2021 Excited to announce our first lab manuscript (collaborations with Children’s Oncology Group and Dr. Matthew Meyerson’s laboratory) has been accepted! More details to come in the next few weeks.

6/2021 Excited to announce that a manuscript based on our lab’s collaboration with the Broad Institute is out on biorxiv! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.16.448102v3

5/2021 Congrats Xan for being selected to participate in the Winship Cancer Institute’s American Cancer Society Diversity in Cancer Research (ACSDICR) program

5/2021 Welcome Garrett officially to the lab as a graduate student!

4/2021 Welcome Cynthia Perez as a graduate student (Genetics and Molecular Biology) rotating in the lab!

4/2021 Congrats to Xan Wesley for being awarded a LGS-SOAR Summer Opportunity for Academic Research fellowship!

4/2021 Congrats to Microl Chen for being awarded the NIDDK Short-Term Research Experience for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP) summer research fellowship!

4/2021 Welcome to Antara Palkar and Microl Chen to the lab as undergraduate researchers!

4/2021 Laney Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Genetics and Molecular Biology Seminar

4/2021 Incredibly grateful to Rally Foundation for funding our research in Wilms Tumor (a pediatric kidney cancer)!

3/2021 Incredibly grateful to Unravel Pediatric Cancer for funding our research in AT/RT (a SWI/SNF altered pediatric brain cancer)!

3/2021 Congrats Nate on getting into the Emory 4+1 Cancer Biology Masters program!

3/2021 Welcome Garrett Cooper as a graduate student (Genetics and Molecular Biology) rotating in the lab!

1/2021 Welcome to Nate Smyth and Josh Riembauer to the lab as undergraduate researchers!

10/2020 Welcome Brandy Bernarde as a graduate student (Genetics and Molecular Biology) rotating in the lab!

10/2020 Welcome Emma West as an undergraduate researcher!

9/2020 Welcome Miranda Adams as a graduate student (Cancer Biology) rotating in the lab!

8/2020 Excited to be having joint lab meetings with Dr. Jennifer Spangle’s lab in Radiation Oncology!

8/2020 Welcome Dr. Karuna Mittal to the lab as a new post-doctoral fellow!

7/2020 Welcome Xan Wesley to the lab as an undergraduate researcher!

7/1/2020 Our first lab meeting (virtually).

6/29/2020 Tissue culture hoods are up and running along with testing out our incubators with a few cell lines.

6/8/2020 Welcome to Benji Lee to the lab as a new research specialist!

5/22/2020 We have resumed our recruitment for post-doctoral fellows.

5/15/2020 We are in the planning and assessment stages of reopening the lab. We hope to be re-opening in the next few weeks.

5/12/2020 We have resumed our search for research specialists.

4/14/2020 Laney Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Cancer Biology Seminar

3/23/2020 Due to COVID19, the lab is temporarily closed. Post-doc and research assistant/specialist recruitments are on hold.

3/16/2020 The Hong Lab officially opens at Emory University, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, and the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.