At 10:10 PM last night, Changyou Zhan’s baby girl was born.  Changyou, his wife Xian and their daughter Grace are pictured here.  Grace was born weighing 3460 grams.  Congratulations!

  After three years of accumulating ice, and countless ear-piercing alarms, the -20 degree freezer has finally been thawed. Our own resident refrigeration specialist Patrick was the brave man who took on the challenge, ensuring that research in the Kohane lab will flourish for many years to come.

On June 1st, Brian Timko was promoted to Instructor of Anaesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital.  He has been working in the lab for four years and is developing new nanomaterials for cardiac tissue scaffolds, cancer therapy, and remotely-triggerable drug delivery systems.  

  On Thursday, May 30th, Al Kwon graduated from Harvard Medical School.  Al and Dan’s mentee-mentor relationship has been ongoing ever since Al took an MIT seminar class taught by Dan in the spring of 2009.  Under Dan’s mentorship, Al also fulfilled his undergraduate pre-medical studies at MIT and performed research during college and medical Read More …

  At a Langer Lab seminar on May 28th, Rong Tong  presented an interesting talk entitled “Development of Polymeric Particles for Cancer Nanomedicine”.

On May 26th, Tzahi Cohen-Karni and Borja Salvador Culla participated in the 9th 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 6,391 runners from all over the world participated. Tzahi Read More …

On May 15th, Jung-Jae Lee presented at the Dr. M. Judah Folkman Research Day at Boston Children’s Hospital.  Each year, over 100 researchers from over 25 departments and divisions present their research to the Boston Children’s Hospital research community.  Research Day honors the memory of Dr. M. Judah Folkman, and his visionary contributions to medical Read More …

  On the early morning of February 23rd, Hunghao Chu’s daughter was born.  Evelyn Chu was born weighing 7 pounds and 8 ounces and 20 inches  in length.

On Tuesday, Feb. 19th, the Kohane group gathered to celebrate the recent promotions of Dr. Christopher Weldon and Dr. Joseph Ciolino to Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. During dinner, Dan gave a speech congratulating the two on their recent career advancements.

  At 7:16pm on February 13th, Tzahi’s first born daughter, Shalev, was born.  More exciting than gold-silk nanofibers. Congratulations!