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A warm send-off and excitement for Elyse as she leaves for law school in Chicago, Gavin for starting grad school at UCLA, Haley and Kaila for starting grad school at UPenn this upcoming fall!
A warm welcome to Helen, Eva, Minjae, and Elise for joining the lab as new research technicians! Welcome!
A warm welcome to our summer students Elena, Allison, and Yuki as well!
A heartfelt goodbye to Amit as he returns to the UK, to Francois as he returns to France, and congratulations to Katie on her new job!
Congratulations to Livius Penter for winning the 2025 ASH Global Research Award!
Congratulations to Giacomo Oliveira for receiving the 2025 MRA Young Investigator Award!
Congratulations to Dr. Kasidet Manakongtreecheep for successfully defending his PhD thesis! 

Congratulations to Giacomo Oliveira and Erin Parry for winning the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grants! 

Congratulations to Jack Ghannam for receiving the F30 award!

Congratulations to Nicoletta Cieri, Cindy Hahn, Marwan Kwok, Livius Penter, Elisa ten Hacken, Jackson Weir, Nick Haradhvala, Binyamin Knisbacher for their presentation at ASH 2024!

Congratulations to Negin Karisani and Nira Krashow for their poster presentation at ASH 2024!

Congratulations to Camila Robles-Oteiza for recieving the Helen Gurly Brown Fellowship for 2025-2026!

Congratulations to Mac Sellars on the DFCI Lubin Family Foundation Scholar Award!

Congratulations to Mac Sellars on the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance 2024 Mentored Investigator Grants!

Congratulations to Catherine J. Wu for being awarded the prestigious Sjöberg Prize!

A warm send-off to Livius Penter as he starts his independent laboratory in Germany.

Congratulations to Katie DFCI Lubin Family Foundation Scholar Award!

A warm send-off to Erin Parry as she starts her independent laboratory at Dana-Farber in July 2023.

Excited for alumni Neil Ruthen and Gabriela Brunsting Hoffman as they start grad school at Weill Cornell and University of Maryland, respectively!

A warm send-off to Elisa ten Hacken as she starts her independent laboratory at Weill Cornell in NYC in February 2023.

Congratulations to Cindy on DFCI Lubin Family Foundation Scholar Award!

A heartfelt thanks and gratitude to Wandi for her 15+ years with us; may she please enjoy her retirement!

Congratulations to Erin on being awarded NIH/NCI K08 and Elisa on NIH/NCI K22!

Hurray for Cathy Gutierrez as she starts her internal medicine residency at MGH!

Hurray for Bryan Iorgulescu as he pursues his Molecular Diagnostics Advanced Fellowship at MDACC!

Excited for alumni Nathan Dangle and Khang Nguyen as they start grad school at UPenn and UCSF, respectively!

A warm send-off to Shanye Yin as he starts his independent laboratory at Einstein School of Medicine in August 2022.

Congratulations to Elisa for the James Calemine Award in CLL, from ASH 2021!

Congratulations to Livius for receiving an ASH Scholar Award!

A warm holiday welcome to our newest lab member: Little Maurer

A warm send off to David Braun as he starts his independent laboratory at Yale New Haven in January 2022.

Fabulous presentations by Bryan and Giacomo at SITC! So great to be there in person!

Best wishes to Sachet Shukla as he starts his independent group at MDACC.

David B. and Bryan I. won second and third place respectively at Immuno-Oncology Young Investigators’ Form (IOYIF).

Congratulations to Peyton W. and Min L. for graduating with their MSc in Immunology!

A warm welcome to our Wu Lab Summer Group: Naomi, Kira, and Christina.

Hooray to Pavan Bachireddy as he starts his independent laboratory at MDACC.

Cathy G., Elisa t.H., Erin P., and Livius P. received ASH Abstract Achievement Awards

Elisa t. H. awarded ASH Scholar Award: Fellow to Faculty and Best of ASH for “Multiplexed CRISPR in vivo editing of CLL loss-of-function lesions models transformation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia into Richter’s syndrome”

E.t.H published “High throughput single-cell detection of multiplex CRISPR-edited gene modifications” in Genome Biology; the manuscript reports on her exciting new methodologies for single-cell DNA-sequencing on the Mission Bio Tapestri of murine cell lines edited via CRISPR-Cas9! Check it out on the “Cancer Evolution and Metastasis” special issue: https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/cancer-evolution-metastasis

Bryan I. and Erin P. receive the Conquer Cancer Foundation/Sontag Foundation Young Investigator Award.

Cathy Wu named Lavine Family Chair for Preventative Cancer Therapies

Cathy G. passes her Dissertation Defense

Nathan D. joined the Wu lab

Christina E. is accepted into Boston University’s PiBS graduate program

Bryan I. awarded 2020 ASCO Meeting Merit Award

Nicoletta C. awarded the 2020 AACR Immuno-oncology Research Fellowship for “Addressing AML with vaccine-induced polyclonal leukemia-specific T cells”

Cathy G. received the AY21 MD-PhD DFCI Fellowship Award

Match Day!
Donna L. matched to UCSF for internal medicine residency
Patrick L. matched to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for internal medicine residency

Nick S. joined the Wu lab

Donna L. defended MD thesis

Elisa tH. is invited to be part of the iWCLL YIM Program Committee for iWCLL 2021 in Krakow, Poland

Peyton W. joined the Wu lab, coming from the Masters of Medical Science (MMSc) at Harvard Medical School

David B. was interviewed by OncLive, discussing the evolution of immunotherapy in advanced renal cell carcinoma

Several of our lab members gave presentations at ASH 2019 in Orlando, FL:

Cathy G. interviewed at ASH 2019

Elisa tH. presented at 2^nd Postgraduate CLL Conference in Bologna, Italy.

David B. presented at the Kidney Cancer Research Summit in Philadelphia, PA: “Using Single Cell Transcriptomics to understand tumor and immune heterogeneity driving resistance and to rationally select immune therapy in advanced RCC”

Livius P. began Research Fellowship from German Research Foundation

David B. awarded Career Enhancement Program grant from the DF/HCC Kidney Cancer SPORE

Cathy W., Elisa tH., and Cathy G. presented at iwCLL2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Cathy G. received the Young Investigator Scholarship Award.

David B. presented at the International Kidney Cancer Symposium in Miami, FL

Erin P. awarded DDCF Physician Scientist Fellowship

Cathy G. received the Melvin Dennis Travel Award to present at the 2019 Annual MD/PhD Conference

Anat B. awarded fellowship by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

David B. named as Next Generation Innovator by HemOnc Today

Cathy G. awarded the NIH grant, Ruth L. Kirschtein National Research Service Award, F31 Diversity for “Impact of RPS15 mutation on a development and progression of chronic lymphocytic leukemia” (2019-2023)

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