Natasha Jaiswal (Titchenell lab) officially accepted an offer as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the College of Health Sciences at Purdue University. She will be starting her new position Jan 2, 2024! Congratulations Natasha!

Congratulations to our own Teji Khurana for being selected for the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching!! This prestigious award is given annually in recognition of commitment to teaching at Penn. The selection committee chose Teji from a highly competitive nomination pool based on his peers' and students' letters written on his behalf. Well-deserved to say the least!! Please join me in applauding Teji on this distinguished award!!

Congratulations Ben Prosser! Ben and a team that he put together to find a cure for his daughter and those who also suffer from disorders due to mutations in STXBP1 and SYNGAP1 genes have received a $25 million gift from an anonymous donor to support their research efforts through their Center for Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (ENDD). Please have a look at the attached press release that will be posted today. We share Ben’s hope that this gift will help lead to breakthroughs on the path to a cure. Please join me in congratulating Ben on this fantastic news!

Congratulations to Yale E. Goldman for his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Academy members are world leaders in the arts and sciences, business, philanthropy, and public affairs.

Congratulations to the Philadelphia Heart Ball Edward S. Cooper honoree, Dr. Kenneth Margulies of Penn Medicine. Dr. Margulies will be honored for his outstanding achievements in health and wellness in Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Heart Ball, April 7th.

I am pleased to announce that our Joe Baur has been promoted to Full Professor!! Joe has been a remarkable member of our faculty, contributing importantly to all of our missions. His research remains exciting and productive. His engagement with mentees and students has been laudatory. His commitments to our Department, the IDOM and the SOM have been unreserved and widely appreciated. This promotion was never in doubt, but it is excellent news. And a cause for a celebration! that we’ll arrange in the near future. Please all join me in congratulating Joe on this milestone in his career!!

NIGMS Biomedical Beat Blog feature

Dr. Titchenell was selected as an Editorial Board Member for the journal Diabetes.

Named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2022). Founded in 1841, RSC is the largest organization in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences. RSC partners with industry and academia, advises governments on policy, and promotes the talent, collaboration, innovation, information and ideas that lead to great advances in science. The designation Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) is given to elected Fellows who have made significant contributions to the chemical sciences. The names of newly elected Fellows are published each year in The Times (London).

Juliet Goldsmith - ALS Scholar in Therapeutics, MGH Healey Center for ALS/Julia Riley – NSF Predoctoral Fellowship/Dan Dou – NIH Predoctoral Fellowship/Elizabeth Gallagher – NIH Predoctoral Fellowship