On Wednesday, April 15th Brian Timko, Stephanie Okonkwo, Andre Shomorony and Brian McAlvin participated in the Boston Children’s Hospital 2nd Annual Innovators’ Showcase. The showcase was held in the Patient Entertainment Center (PEC) and PEC Hallway at Boston Children’s Hospital. Brian McAvlin, MD (right) showcased a novel circuit device that filters patient blood with a high Read More …
At 9:00am on Friday, January 30th, Mengyuan and Lele Li’s baby was born at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Their son’s name is Ethan Li and he was born weighing 6 pounds, 10 ounces. Congratulations!
On Wednesday, January 7th, Dan gave a Grand Rounds presentation in the Folkman Auditorium at Children’s Hospital. The title of his presentation is “Drug delivery, biomaterials, and nanomedicine”.
On December 12th, the Kohane group got together to celebrate the holidays with the annual Swiss tradition called L’Escalade, or Fête de l’Escalade. The annual Escalade festival is held in December in Geneva, Switzerland, celebrating the defeat of the surprise attack by troops sent by Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy during the night of December 11, 1602. Read More …
On Friday, December 12th Joe Ciolino was notified that he received the 2015 Milton Fund Award. The Milton Fund supports studies of a medical, geographical, historical, or scientific nature, which must be either in the interests of promoting the physical and material welfare of the human race, or of investigating and determining the value and Read More …
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!