On October 26th at 11:50am, Qian Liu’s baby was born.  Her name is Sherise Yang, weighing 6 pounds, 3 ounces and 20 inches in length.  Congratulations, Qian!  

On Columbus Day (Sunday, October 12th), Borja Salvador Culla participated in the 14th Annual B.A.A. Half Marathon presented by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund. Borja participated as part of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute Team and raised 750$ towards the record total of $728,757.77 raised by the entire team. A total of 6,211 runners from Read More …

On October 1st, Rong Tong was promoted to Instructor of Anaesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital.  He has been working in the lab for 4 years and his research focuses on the development of new biomaterials for nanomedicine, including light-triggered drug delivery.  

  On Friday, September 12th, Dan presented at TEDMED in Washington D.C.  The topic of his presentation was “triggered and targeted drug delivery systems.”  Pictured on the left is a tweet sent from the TEDMED twitter account.  Congratulations Dan! You can watch the full video by clicking here.

  On August 27th, Brian McAlvin’s daughter was born.  Her name is Stella and she was born at 3:43 pm weighing 8 pounds, 2 ounces.  Congratulations!  

  On August 4th, Borja Salvador Culla and his wife Evi welcomed their second son into their family. Baby Alexandros was born at 5:45am, 4.025 Kg and 54 cm long. Congratulations!

  On June 15th, Dan was appointed as Associate Editor of Nano Letters.  Congratulations Dan!

  On Memorial Day (Sunday, May 25th), Borja Salvador Culla participated in the 10th Annual Boston’s Run to Remember Half Marathon. This is a historic 13.1 mile run through downtown Boston to honor Massachusetts Law Enforcement Officers killed in the line of duty. In this year’s edition, a total of 7,176 runners from all over the world Read More …

On Friday, April 4th the Kohane group participated in the 2014 Boston Children’s Hospital Innovators’ Showcase.  The event was held in the Enders Lobby/Folkman auditorium and featured innovators from across the enterprise.  The innovations presented by the Kohane group included NIR-actuated drug delivery devices,   Light-triggered Drug Delivery, Magnetophoretic Separation of Bacteria from Whole Blood, Read More …

On Wednesday, March 25th Dr. Brian McAlvin gave a talk at the 10th Annual Symposium in Cellular, Molecular and Clinical Research in Surgery.  The Symposium took place in the Folkman Auditorium inside the Enders Building at Boston Children’s Hospitlal.  The title of the talk was “Surface modified extracorporeal circuitry for selective cytokine filtration”.