Congratulations, Dr. Rosch!
Sarah joins the lab!
Finally, we have a lab manager! Sarah joins us from the Vanderbilt Antibody and Protein Resource core facility. Previous to her appointment at VAPR, she was a lab manager and research assistant across several groups at Vanderbilt. She will provide desperately needed support on animal handling and experimentation as we begin to transition our work into the in vivo realm. Moreover, her extensive wet lab experience will provide ample support and training for the graduate students. It’s great to have her on board!
Lauren joins the lab!
We are pleased to welcome Lauren Drake as our newest graduate student. Lauren majored in bioengineering at UPenn and performed research on protein aggregation in James Shorter’s lab. She joins the growing arm of our team that focuses on building more representative models of the human brain in health and disease.
Ethan presents at the annual (virtual) CZI NDCN conference
Lots of unpublished work on blood-brain barrier inflammation and endothelial-glial crosstalk. Thanks to the organizers at CZI for pulling off an impressive virtual event!
New funding announcements
Some good news in the time of lab shutdown: we have two new grants. Ethan will serve as PI for an NIH R01 entitled “iPSC-derived neurovascular organoids” and co-I on an NIH R21 entitled “Directing polarized organization in human brain organoids using gradients of soluble signaling factors in a hydrogel” (PI: Leon Bellan). Links to project descriptions are found below. We are truly thankful for the continued support from NIH and look forward to engineering some brain organoids!
https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9954566&icde=49825403
https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9971911&icde=49825412