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...
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...
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...
Mike DiCandia is off to graduate school at Emory University
Our loss is Emory’s gain. Go get 'em Mike!
Melvili’s Last Day
Mel will spend the next year working as a Microbiologist in the New Jersey state health laboratory, officially known as the NJ Public Health and Environmental Laboratories, before embarking on a career as a Clinical Microbiologist. Have fun Mel and keep on spreading...
Julia Greendyk defends her MS thesis
Julia plans to work in Africa in the coming months. Congratulations Julia, happy adventures!