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The Wainger Lab is warmly welcomes a new group of research assistants to the lab this Fall. Advika, Abegale, and Laura are working on clinical research projects and Isabel, Chris, Sam, Victoria, and Sophia are in lab working on preclinical projects.
Congratulations to the research assistants who moved on this year to med school and grad school and have joined the ranks of lab alumni. We will miss you Lauren, Adina, Sid, Martha, and Sharon!
Congratulations to Aaron and Christine who both received the 2024 Mussallem Transformative Scholars Award from the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS at MGH for their work in the field of ALS research.
Congratulations to Aaron, Christine, and Grace for their first-author papers this past year!
Held A, Adler M, Marques C, Reyes CJ, Kavuturu AS, Quadros ARAA, Ndayambaje IS, Lara E, Ward M, Lagier-Tourenne C, Wainger BJ. iPSC motor neurons, but not other derived cell types, capture gene expression changes in postmortem sporadic ALS motor neurons. Cell Rep. 2023 Sep 26;42(9):113046. PMID: 37651231; PMCID: PMC10622181.
Marques C, Held A, Dorfman K, Sung J, Song C, Kavuturu AS, Aguilar C, Russo T, Oakley DH, Albers MW, Hyman BT, Petrucelli L, Lagier-Tourenne C, Wainger BJ. Neuronal STING activation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. Acta Neuropathol. 2024 Mar 13;147(1):56. PMID: 38478117; PMCID: PMC10937762.
Chahyadinata G, Nam JH, Battenberg A, Wainger BJ. Physiological profiling of cannabidiol reveals profound inhibition of sensory neurons. Pain. 2024 May 29. PMID: 38815194.
We’re adding two more to the list of Wainger Lab alumni! Katherine is off to begin her journey of becoming a physician-scientist in the MSTP program at the Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, while Joao has moved on to investigate Alzheimer’s Disease at Tufts Medical School. We will miss you both greatly and will forever appreciate the incredible contributions you have made to the group!
We’ve had to say goodbye to two wonderful lab members over the last few weeks. We wish the best to Xiaofan as she returns to her position as an anesthesiologist in China and to Patrick as he begins with Eli Lilly in the pain and neurodegenerative disease sectors. We appreciate everything you have done for the lab and look forward to seeing where you go!
Congratulations to Brian on receiving a Blavatnik Sensory Disorders Research Award for the project entitled A Neuronal Electrical Excitability Recording System for Improved Diagnosis and Biomarker Assessment of the Therapeutic Impact of Drugs in Peripheral Sensory and Pain Disorders. Check out what the foundation does here.
Brian gives the John McNeish Memorial Lecture: Human Stem Cell Modeling to Clinical Trial at the virtual International Society for Stem Cell Research’s annual meeting. Check it out here.