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2023 BRAIN Initiative Show Us Your BRAINS! Photo and Video Contest

Congratulations to Joey Zhou for having his photo submission of Human Hippocampal immature neurons be selected to feature in the 2024 BRAIN calendar! 

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August 2023 


Jessica Cassin Awarded K99

Congratulations to Jessica Cassin, our former graduate student, for being given a K99 grant! This grant is designed for postdoctoral researchers to transition to independent researchers.

Jessica Cassin

August 2023


Bond Lab at Mount Sinai

Wishing the best of luck to Dr. Bond as she concludes her time with our lab and heads to Mount Sinai in May to start her own! Thank you for all of your hard work, Allison. We will miss you!

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April 2023

 


American Association for the Advancement of Science

Congratulations to Dr. Guo-li Ming who has been elected as a 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, alongside seven other University of Pennsylvania faculty pictured below! Penn Today writes: Since 1874, AAAS, a scientific society aimed at advancing science, engineering, and innovation “throughout the world for the benefit of all,” has annually named a class of fellows. This year, the work spans 24 scientific disciplines. Access the full article.

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January 2023

 


Cold Spring Harbor Lab

Job well done to Drs. Guo-li Ming and Sergiu Pasca on organizing the 3rd CSHL conference on human neural development and 3D modeling in organoids. Check out #cshlbrain Tweets for highlights of this year's event!

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December 2022


Wikipedia

Check out Dr. Song's new Wikipedia page!

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November 2022

 


University of Zurich Foundation

Congratulations to lab alum Fadi Jacob, MD, PhD on receiving the UZH Foundation Brain Diseases Award for his glioblastoma organoid model!

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November 2022


Wikipedia

Check out Dr. Ming's new Wikipedia page!

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September 2022


University of Pennsylvania

Congratulations to our postdoc Yi "Joey" Zhou, PhD and Joel Rurik of Jonathan Epstein's lab for receiving the 2022 Kaushal Family Awards in Genetics, which recognizes excellence in genetic research through publication by a graduate student and postdoctoral fellow.

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September 2022


Columbia University

Best of luck to our former lab tech Alan Garcia as he pursues medical school at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Way to go, Alan!

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August 2022


Mount Sinai

We are excited for senior postdoc Allison Bond, PhD to start her own lab at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The lab will broadly study hippocampal development with a focus on the dynamic properties of dentate gyrus neural stem cells across the lifespan. Congratulations, Allison!

Allison Bond

May 2023


Penn Medicine

Discovery of Molecular Signatures of Immature Neurons in The Human Brain Throughout Life Provide New Insights into Brain Plasticity and Other Functions, According to Penn Medicine Researchers.

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July 18, 2022


National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Dr. Hongjun Song and Dr. Brian Litt of Perelman School of Medicine have received the Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship.

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July 2022


University of Pennsylvania

Congratulations to Jeriel Dumeng Rodriguez, M.S. on completing his master's and pursuing law school!

May 2022


Forbes

A big congratulations to our former student Dr. Xuyu Qian, PhD for recognition in Forbes' 2022 Class of 30 Under 30!

Dr. Xuyu Qian

December 2021


Johns Hopkins University

Congratulations to the new Dr. Dennisse Jimenez-Cyrus, PhD on her graduation!

August 2021

 


Perelman School of Medicine

Congratulations to Dan Zhang, PhD for completing his thesis defense!

July 2021

 


Johns Hopkins University

Congratulations to the new Dr. Wei-Kai Huang, PhD for his great thesis defense, and Dr. Zheng Wong, PhD for completing his thesis!

December 2020


National Academy of Medicine

Dr. Hongjun Song has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine!

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October 2020

 


Johns Hopkins University

Congratulations to the new Dr. Fadi Jacob, PhD on his thesis defense!

September 2020


Albert Einstein College of Medicine

We are proud to announce that our Lab Manager, Jordan Schnoll, who has been with the lab since our establishment at Penn, will move on to medical school in New York City this fall! We wish her the best of luck.

July 2020

 


Perelman School of Medicine

Congratulations to Phuong Nguyen, M.S., a PhD student in the lab, for receiving the Blavatnik Family Fellowship Award in Biomedical Research for the 2020-2021 academic year!

July 2020

 


National Institutes of Health

Congratulations to Allison Bond, PhD, a Research Associate in the Song Lab, for a perfect score on her K01 Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award application!

June 2020


Society for Neuro-Oncology

Congratulations to Dan Zhang, an MD/PhD student in the lab, for winning an award for his poster on glioblastoma organoids.

November 2019

 


Johns Hopkins University

Congratulations to Xuyu Qian for completing his thesis defense!

November 2019


National Academy of Medicine

Congratulations to Guo-li Ming for being elected to the National Academy of Medicine!

October 2019


New York Stem Cell Foundation

Congratulations to Xuyu Qian, a PhD student in the lab, for an exciting talk on sliced neocortical organoids for modeling distinct cortical neuronal layer formation.

October 2019


New York Stem Cell Foundation

Congratulations to Fadi Jacob, an MD/PhD student in the lab, for winning an award for his poster entitled: A patient-derived glioblastoma organoid model and biobank recapitulates inter- and intra-tumoral heterogeneity.

October 2019


University of Pennsylvania

Congratulations to Dan Zhang, an MD/PhD student in the lab, for being selected as a Blavatnik Fellow for the 2019-2020 academic year through the Biomedical Graduate Studies program at Penn!

July 2019


University of California, San Francisco

We are excited to announce that Caroline Vissers, a graduate student in the lab, will be starting her own lab at UCSF in February of 2020! Her lab will study molecular regulation of the epitranscriptome with applications in neural development and disease.

July 2019


Lasker Foundation

Congratulations to Caroline Vissers for being a winner of the 2018 Lasker Foundation Essay Contest!

June 27, 2018


Graduate student, Caroline Vissers, received a fellowship from the Grass Foundation. She will conduct independent research at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, this summer.

January 13, 2018


Guo-li Ming, Hongjun Song, and Kimberly Christian received National Institute of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Director's Awards in recognition for collaboration towards the identification of new therapeutics for the treatment of Zika virus infection in October of 2017.


Penn Medicine

Guo-li Ming, MD, PhD, and Hongjun Song, PhD, Appointed Professors of Neuroscience by Penn Medicine

March 09, 2017


News-Medical

New collaborative initiative to develop novel ways of screening drugs for bipolar disorder, schizophrenia

September 02, 2016


The New York Times

A Race to Unravel the Secrets of the Zika Virus

May 09, 2016


Spectrum

Student invention grows hundreds of 'mini-brains' at once

May 02, 2016


The Scientist

Mini Brains Model Zika Infection

April 22, 2016

 


The Hub at Johns Hopkins University

Zika virus kills cells involved in fetal brain development, study shows

March 04, 2016