Baby Nikolaos has arrived!  On October 1st, Borja Salvador and his wife Evi welcomed their first child into the family.  Niko was born at 11:12pm, 3.425 Kg and 50 cm long.

    As of 10/1/12, Joe Ciolino was promoted to Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. There was much rejoicing in the lab.

A light detachment of the LBDD (Julia, Pat, Jenny, Homer, Cristina, Alina, Tzahi, Al and Dan) turned out in force in the main building at Boston Children’s for a video game marathon with patient Alex Cote. Alex was accompanied by his family and his 7S nurse Michelle. Once Alex was done defeating all opponents, there Read More …

On May 17th, full Professorship at Harvard Medical School was formally conferred on Dan (seated, on extreme left, next to Prof. Paul Hickey, his Chairman). The actual promotion went through in February. And so it goes.

    On December 2nd, the Kohane group gathered to celebrate the annual tradition from Dan’s homeland, called the Escalade. The Escalade is an annual festival held 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. Celebrations Read More …

Dan (right) traveled to the American Chemical Society Meeting in Denver to participate in a half-day symposium for the AkzoNobel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Chemistry honoring lab postdoc Dr. Rong Tong (holding plaque) for his work done while a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Jianjun Cheng (left) at UIUC. JJ Read More …

Bozhi Tian and his wife Xiaoying’s baby has arrived!  Baby Colin Tian arrived early, and was born on Monday, August 22, 7 pounds and 9 ounces and 12.5 inches long.

Profs. S. H. Yuk, Y. W. Jung, and Y. Byun met with Profs. Langer and Anderson and Dan on Cape Cod (pictures) and at MIT to discuss the existing collaboration.  

Lab members gathered at the annual retreat of the Langer Lab at Robert Langer’s beach house on the Cape.  The weather was beautiful, the food plentiful.