The Kohane Lab celebrated the year of the dog with a lab lunch at Q restaurant in Chinatown!  

Another end-of-year, another Escalade party. The Escalade is a celebration of Dan’s hometown’s (Geneva, Switzerland) resistance to invasion in 1602. Featured is a large cauldron made of Swiss chocolate (pictured) and filled with goodies including marzipan shaped like veggies.

On Wednesday, 9/20 the Kohane group gathered at Bertucci’s to have a goodbye lunch for Julia. Following lunch, a delicious cake from H Market in Cambridge was enjoyed by all!  Julia will be leaving the lab to pursue a new career opportunity, but will miss the Kohane lab very much.

Dan traveled to Haifa (via Cesarea, Acre, and other sights) to visit ex-lab member Dr. Boaz Mizrahi in his lab at the Technion in Haifa    

Prof. Noah Lotan (in foreground with wife Talma), a friend and mentor of Dan (in background with [R to L] wife Lauren Cheng and children Keren and Ariel), invited him to dinner in Haifa.

  Ex-lab members kindly invited Dan to dinner at Manta Ray, a restaurant on the coastal road between Tel Aviv and Jaffa. R to L: Iris Shichor, Boaz Mizrahi, Hila Epstein, Itay Sagie, Tal Dvir, Etgar Levy-Nissenbaum, Avi Schroeder

On April 27th, Dr. Yang was promoted to Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School.  Congratulations!

On Monday, April 10th Alina successfully defended her thesis titled “Repeatable and adjustable on-demand local anesthesia using externally triggered liposomes” at MIT! The work was co-advised by Dan and Professor Bob Langer at MIT. Amazing work. Congrats, Alina!

On Friday, April 7th Dan gave a Congressional Briefing in Washington, D.C.  He was invited by The American Institutes for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) to give a presentation on Using Nanotechnology to Target Disease.  During his visit, Dan met with David Bond in Congresswoman Clark’s office, Suzannah Savage in Senator Warren’s office, and Senator Markey’s office.  

Congratulations to Claudia Santamaria, she matched at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for Anesthesia Residency!