The Kohane Lab celebrated the Year of the Dragon with lunch at LaMei Hot Pot in Brookline!

The Kohane Lab held our annual Escalade Party at the end of 2023! This celebrates the valiant defense of Geneva, Switzerland against the neighboring Savoyans in 1602. Legend has it that a local townswoman, Catherine Cheynel (“Mère Royaume”), dumped a large cauldron of boiling vegetable soup over the attackers. This event is commemorated every year Read More …

Our Annual Kohane Lab BBQ was held on July 17th this year. We were lucky to have great weather, food and company. Thanks so much to Dan and Lauren for hosting!

The Kohane Lab has welcomed our second half of summer interns! Jackson Dickie: Jackson is a rising junior at Weston High School. His research interest is in the uses and applications of nanomedicine. In his free time, he enjoys cooking as well as playing the trumpet and piano. Hannah Cinea: Hannah is going into her senior year Read More …

“An aptamer-based depot system for sustained release of small molecule therapeutics” was published in Nature Communications. The editors at Nature Communications have selected it as one of the 50 best papers recently published in the area and have selected it for their Editors’ Highlight page. The first author, Dali Wang, is now faculty at Shanghai Read More …

On April 1st, Dr. Zhang was promoted to Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School. Congratulations!

The Kohane Lab has welcomed our first half of summer interns! Alice Lassalle: Alice is currently in her last year of study at ESPCI, a French engineering school (the equivalent of a Master of science). Her research interests include drug delivery devices and biomaterials. In her free time she enjoys exercising, going to museums, listening Read More …

The Kohane Lab celebrated the year of the rabbit with lunch at LaMei Hot Pot in Brookline!

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Kohane Lab was able to gather for our annual Escalade Party! This party celebrates Dan’s hometown of Geneva, Switzerland and its successful defense against an attempted invasion in 1602. There were many highlights of the night, including good food and even better company. The main Read More …

“Enhancement of single upconversion nanoparticle imaging by topologically segregated core-shell structure with inward energy migration” was published in Nat Communications. The senior author, Dr. Qian Liu at Fudan University, was a postdoc in the group. Dan was a co-corresponding author. The editors at Nature Communcations have selected it as one of the 50 best papers Read More …