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!

Alina’s talk was recognized as the “Best Presentation” of the Biomaterials and Drug Delivery I session in the 2016 Annual AIChE Meeting in San Francisco last November.  Congratulations Alina!

Rong Yang, PhD, instructor in Anesthesiology, has been awarded the Charles H. Hood Foundation grant to continue her research on otitis media. The grant will allow Dr. Yang to develop nanoparticles to treat middle ear infections without the need for antibiotics. The two-year, $150,000 Child Health Research Award is intended to support newly independent faculty, Read More …

On December 16th, the Kohane group gathered to celebrate the holidays and the annual tradition from Geneva, Switzerland called the Escalade.  The Escalade is an annual festival 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 include a large marmite Read More …