News & Updates

More exciting news to come! Stay tuned!

 

2026

  • March 2026: We launched our long overdue Lab Website! 
  • March 2026: Shin received a meritorious travel award and selected as an Oral Abstract Presenter (Top 25% of all Abstracts) for the 2026 ASGCT. Congratulations!

2025

  • December 2025: We welcomed Sang-Hoon Kim, PhD as the Post Doctoral Fellow. Welcome to the team!
  • December 2025: Saba gave an invited talk at the Annual Cancer Immunobiology Retreat at Penn. 
  • December 2025: We said good-bye to our Post Doc, Shadab. Farewell and good luck!
  • November 2025: Xiangyi received the prestigious Muriel Joan Drew Hege Fund Award for Women in Cellular Immunotherapy Research. Congratulations and well-deserved!
  • October 2025: Shin presented his work at the 2025 Cold Spring Harbor Immunoengineering conference with Axion Biosystems Travel Grant Award. 
  • October 2025: Shin won Best Poster at Penn's Pathology and Laboratory Research Symposium. Congratulations!
  • October 2025: We welcomed Chelsea Yang as a Research Specialist. Welcome!
  • September 2025: Graduate student, Sophia Zheng, joins our lab for her Fall 2025 rotation. Welcome!
  • July 2025: Shin received the Kron Cell & Gene Therapy Fellowship. Congratulations!
  • July 2025: Our lab's Leukemia-On-Chip manuscript was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering and was featured on Penn Today. Amazing job, team!
  • July 2025: We welcomed Rob Robino as a PhD student in the Ghassemi Lab. Welcome!
  • May 2025: Our lab's 3-day CAR T manufacturing used in the recent CAR19 armoured with IL-18 human clinical trial phase 1 was published in New England Journal of Medicine and was featured on Penn Today. Amazing job!
  • April 2025: Graduate student, Rob Robino, joined our lab for his Spring 2025 rotation. Welcome!
  • March 2025: Saba and Shin presented for the 2025 Center for Cellular Immunotherapies Research in Progress Seminar. 
  • February 2025: Xiangyi presented her work at the 2025 TRCCC conference.
  • February 2025: We welcomed Shuai Ye, MD, PhD as the Lab Manager. Welcome aboard!
  • January 2025: Graduate student, Martina Makovska, joined our lab for her Spring 2025 rotation. Welcome!
  • January 2025: We welcomed Shin Seo as a PhD student in the Ghassemi Lab. Welcome!

2024

  • November 2024: Graduate student, Shin Seo, joined our lab for his Fall 2024 rotation. Welcome!
  • September 2024: Graduate students, Chloe Leff and Sydney Dumont, joined our lab for their Fall 2024 rotation. Welcome!
  • July 2024: Saba was awarded the NIH R01 grant. Congratulations!
  • May 2024: We welcomed graduate student, Xiangyi Fang, into our lab!
  • April 2024: We welcomed our first Post Doctoral Fellow, Shadab Kazmi, into our lab!