Congrats to Payal for being awarded the Jan T. Vilcek Fellowship for the 2022-2023. This is a tremendous honor for the lab. With this funding, Payal will continue to work on uncovering the mechanisms by which tissue-resident macrophage subpopulations function in distinct and critical ways to resolve injury and infection, as well as maintain tissue homeostasis!
This work will support the ongoing work Payal has been doing in lab (look out for her manuscripts this year) and will be a fundamental resource to the lung-resident macrophage field.
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Congratulations to Stephen on the publication of his work in Frontiers of Immunol. This is a collaborative project between Weill Cornell and NYU Langone that dissects the role of Galectin-9 in protection of immunocompetent mice during Sars infection.
Stephen recently presented this work at Keystone in Belgium #KSCovid23. Hope you got a chance to connect and see his talk if you went! Congratulations to our graduate student EricBartnicki on winning a poster award at the 2022 Perlmutter Cancer Center Retreat! We are so excited about the role of tissue-resident macrophages in the context of tumor metastases. Look out for this paper and Eric's work in this project in future!
#TeamKhanna has two new rotation students for Fall 2022
Mimi Kostoska and Joe Daccache! We are so thrilled to have you join the team this semester and can't wait to discover some incredible macrophage biology with you both. Welcome! Youngest and newest member of #TeamKhanna, Katelyn wrote an article for River Journal!
Check it out! https://riverjournalonline.com/schools/putting-stem-to-work-in-science-we-find-purpose/35479/ August news:
We are thrilled to invite 4 new students to lab this summer! Sam and Shiny are the two new masters students that are co-mentored with other fabulous NYU faculty! We also have a brilliant new high school student, Katelyn and an undergraduate Varshini who are being mentored by Stephen in lab. Welcome to #TeamKhanna and we are eager to teach you about macrophages! We say goodbye to our medical fellow, Alok Bhatt, who is moving on to a fantastic position at Maryland. Alok joined us right before the pandemic and had a slow start. In the last two years, Alok has worked on evaluating the role of pulmonary tissue resident macrophages following strep infection in collaboration with Dr. Jeff Weiser. Alok is an avid movie watcher, food lover, boba lover, dog dad and (apparently) a guitarist - but we've yet to hear the strings. We will miss your cheerful personality and pulmonary expertise! Please visit us when you are in the city and teach them how it's done in Maryland! Boba Fridays won't be the same without you!
Onwards and upwards! We say goodbye to our Research Scientist Camille Khairallah, who is moving on to an industry position at Immunai! Camille worked on a variety of projects while in lab, all related to the impact of aging and nerve disruption on host immune (Macrophage) responses. Camille will stay local (in NYC) but tackle translational projects in her next role. We're glad you are staying close and hope to read and hear about all the exciting things that you will embark, next!
We will miss your collaborative personality and your love for boba tea! Don't be a stranger and stop by any time. We say goodbye to Hedy Rocha this month. Hedy came to use 3 years ago and took on the mouse colonies, genotyping and has kept the lab running smoothly. What we'll miss most is Hedy's rigor, professionalism and her sunny disposition splashed with her love for food and music. Hedy is staying local so we won't be too sad! You are gem, Hedy. We will miss you!
The Khanna Lab is thrilled to welcome back Dr. Stephen T Yeung back to #TeamKhanna. Stephen graduated from Khanna lab in 2020 and has since made remarkable contributions in HIV/AIDs research at Weill Cornell in the Lishomwa Ndhlovu Lab. Stephen joins us back as a Research Scientist and is charged and ready to build projects in a variety of exciting new (and old) avenues. Look out for some amazing new stories coming from his work both at Cornell and NYU and stay tuned for awesomeness!
Welcome back, Stephen! |