Congratulations to Rong on her promotion to instructor of Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School!

The Kohane team got together for a lunch at Bertucci’s to celebrate Brian McAlvin’s promotion from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School. Congrats Brian!  

Brian Timko and Todd Hoare were Chairs of a session focused on Externally-addressable Smart Biomaterials, at which Dan gave the keynote address. Also, Dan ran into Chris Highley (picture), a prior technician in the Kohane Lab, who is now a post-doc at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Bioengineering.

Many congratulations to Dr. Rong Yang & Dr. Ciolino for winning the 1st & 2nd place in the poster competition respectively at the 2016 Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day!!

On the morning of Saturday, April 30th, Alan Woodruff’s baby, Lucy Woodruff was born.  She was 8 lbs, 8 oz and arrived at 11:04am.  Everyone is happy and healthy.  Congratulations Alan!

On Thursday, April 14th, Dan was invited to receive a specially selected gift from the Critical Care Fellows in celebration of his “Teacher of The Year” award the previous year.  During the celebration, Dan gave some sage advice!

On Thursday, March 24th, the Kohane Group gathered for a surprise lunch to celebrate Julia’s promotion to Senior Administrative Associate. Following lunch, a chocolate cake from Modern Pastry was enjoyed by all!

On February 25th, Brian Timko, Brian McAlvin and Dan won the first-ever $25,000 MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize! Together, they developed technologies to treat and monitor sepsis, which is the leading cause of death among critically-ill patients. Their team, GoodSIRS, presented a plan to commercialize that technology. Congratulations Brian, Brian and Dan! You can find more info at Read More …

On Friday, January 29th, Joe Ciolino and Dan Kohane attended the 5th Annual Glaucoma 360 New Horizons Forum in San Francisco, CA.  Joe gave a talk that discussed the potential of a contact lens as a platform for drug delivery.  The presentation reviewed the design of our contact lens, the innovative steps taken, and the Read More …

On December 18th, 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 …