2023
October 6, 2023
We're moving!! The Elf Lab will be located at the University of Utah
as of November 16, 2023!
October 3, 2023
Congratulations to Mirielle and Daniele, whose abstract
was accepted for a poster presentation at ASH!
September 26, 2023
Congratulations to George and Chad, whose abstract
was accepted for presentation at ABRCMS!
July 24, 2023
Welcome back to our beloved former technician and
current ASH HONORS medical student, Quinn!!
July 5, 2023
Welcome back to our favorite Lab School student Amy,
and welcome to our new CCB rotation student Darby!
June 21, 2023
Congratulations to Nicole for passing her preliminary exam!
June 20, 2023
Welcome to our new Chicago EYES on Cancer student Llyanna Mercado!
April 27, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Juan Ibarra for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!
April 22, 2023
Congratulations to Nicole for being awarded the
ASH Minority Hematology Graduate Award!!
March 2, 2023
Welcome to our new CCB graduate student, Nicole!
March 1, 2023
Welcome to our new postdoc, Mirielle!
February 23, 2023
Congratulations to George for being awarded a Jeff Metcalf Fellowship Grant!
February 8, 2023
Congratulations to Hunter for being accepted into the
Cancer Biology Ph.D. program at UChicago!
2022
October 22, 2022
Congratulations to Nicole for being awarded the prestigious
ASH Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award!
September 29, 2022
Congratulations to Nicole whose abstract was accepted for an oral presentation
at the 64th Annual ASH Meeting!
September 28, 2022
Welcome to our two new undergrads, George and Melissa!
September 19, 2022
Welcome to our new lab manager, Chris!
August 1, 2022
Welcome to our new research technician, Hunter!
June 27, 2022
Welcome to our FOUR new lab members - Chad, Jacky, Lulu, and Amy!
May 13, 2022
Congratulations to Harrison, who will head to the MSTP program
at the University of Michigan this fall!
May 6, 2022
Alex is headed to Pritzker School of Medicine this fall! Congratulations Alex!
April 27, 2022
Congratulations to Nicole for receiving graduate funding from the UChicago IMSD Program!
April 15, 2022
We are SO delighted that both Nicole and Deborah have chosen to
pursue their PhDs in the CCB program at UChicago!
April 12, 2022
Our first paper, led by Juan and Yassmin, is out now in Blood Cancer Discovery!
April 4, 2022
Congratulations to Nicole for being awarded an NSF GRFP grant!
March 17, 2022
Nicole will be pursuing her PhD in the CCB program at UChicago!
February 17, 2022
Congratulations to Nicole and Deborah, who were both accepted
to the Committee on Cancer Biology PhD program!
2021
November 12, 2021
Congratulations to Nicole and Harrison, who both received ASH Abstract Achievement Awards!
October 26, 2021
Congratulations to Juan on his ASH Abstract Achievement Award!
October 5, 2021
Nicole, Harrison and Juan will all be presenting their work at ASH this December!
September 22, 2021
Congratulations to Juan, who is the recipient of the Robert C. and Mary Jane Gallo Scholarship!
August 25, 2021
Congratulations to Maria, who has been awarded funding through the Goldblatt Endowment!
August 16, 2021
Welcome to our new PREP Scholar Deborah Rodriguez!
August 2, 2021
Congratulations to Juan for being appointed to the
T32 Multi-disciplinary Training Grant in Cancer Research!
July 1, 2021
Congratulations to Juan for passing his qualifying exam!
June 25, 2021
Nicole has been designated an. HSF Scholar from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund!
June 15, 2021
Welcome to our new postdoc and AIRC Scholar, Dr. Michele Ciboddo!
June 9, 2021
Congratulations to our three UChicago graduates!!
Yassmin is off to NYC to attend graduate school at Gerstner Sloan Kettering;
Gaby will be working as a clinical research coordinator at the
Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine;
Harrison will be working as a research technician in the lab of Giovanni Tonon at
IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan, Italy!
BEST OF LUCK TO ALL OF YOU, WE WILL MISS YOU!!
May 26, 2021
Nicole has been accepted into the UCCCC Diversity in Cancer Research Program!
March 4, 2021
Juan has been selected as the student co-chair of the BSD Diversity Committee!
Congratulations Juan, we are so proud!!
2020
September 8, 2020
Congratulations to Juan, who has been awarded funding through the Goldblatt Endowment!
August 24, 2020
Welcome to our new research technician, Kasia!
July 1, 2020
Future doctor Quinn is off to attend medical school at Kansas City University!
June 24, 2020
Congratulations to Juan, who passed his prelim exam!
June 19, 2020
Harrison has been accepted into the Research Honors Program in Biological Sciences!
May 11, 2020
Luke and Nicole have been awarded BSCD Summer Fellowships!
May 1, 2020
Lizi will attend Brown University this Fall!