Valdir was invited to give a talk on his exciting new data at the Cold Spring Harbor Translational Control meeting. Cheers!
Category: Students
Kim Cruz off to vet school
Lab alum and animal lover extraordinaire Kim Cruz left the “corporate world” for vet school. Kim garnered acceptances into three top vet schools and is attending Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Congratulations Kim! Woof!
Movers and Shakers
Movers: Before entering medical school in the Fall of 2019, Parth is moving on to a year of service with City Year Philadelphia (through Americorps). He will be helping prevent at-risk Philadelphia kids from dropping out of middle school. Shakers: What a summer…😅 Heather passed the written PhD qualifying exam, Unnati passed her oral qualifying Read More
Unnati garners predoctoral grant
Unnati was awarded a 2-year predoctoral grant from the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research. 😊
Parth Patel joins lab
We are happy to have Parth “stop by” the lab en route to medical school. Welcome!
New NIH grant awarded
The Woychik lab and their collaborators the Husson laboratory at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School were awarded a new NIH R21 grant to study the molecular underpinnings of Mycobacterium tuberculosis dormancy and immune evasion during latent tuberculosis.
Lab holiday trip to NYC
The lab’s first visit to an escape room, and we made it out with 2 min 33 sec to spare. Only 35% of the teams that have tried this room made it out in the allotted time (1 hour). Great teamwork! It was a balmy December day, perfect for exploring the city and dining out.
Big dental school admissions win for Megan Chen
Former Woychik lab Honors Undergraduate Megan Chen (Genetics, German BS May ’17) secured admission into SIX excellent dental schools. Megan will be attending the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. Outstanding!
Celebrating Melvilí’s MSKCC CPEP Fellowship (and the last NJ beach day of 2017)
Former graduate student Melvilí Cintrón (left, PhD May ’17) garnered her dream fellowship in Clinical Microbiology, securing the highly competitive and ONLY Clinical Microbiology Fellowship in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Start date July 1, 2018. Keep on smiling Mel!