Nov 4, 2024 - The Truong lab in collaboration with the Kirsch lab has been awarded a pilot grant from the Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) to generate a macrophage-based cell therapy for regenerating knee joints in osteoarthritis!
Nov 1, 2023 - The Truong lab has been awarded seed funding from NYU Mega grants to generate preliminary data for a microglia-based cell therapy for Alzheimer's!
Aug 12, 2023 - Ece, Iris, Brianna, and Kacie win 1st place at the Tandon UGSRP awards ceremony and 1st place in the People's choice award!
Sep 1, 2023 - The Truong lab welcomes Shean Fu Phen as a Master's student in the group, and Susanna Jaramillo staying in the group as a PhD student in our biomedical engineering program.
April 1, 2023 - The Truong lab welcomes our third Postdoctoral Fellow, Tomoki Yanagi, MD/PhD.
Oct 27, 2022 - The Truong lab's first little news article publication is out in Synthetic Biology.
Sep 19, 2022 - The Truong lab welcomes our second Postdoctoral Fellow, Serena Generoso, PhD.
Sep 1, 2022 - The Truong lab welcomes our second PhD student, Sumanth Dara, MS.
Aug 12, 2022 - Ece Aydin wins 1st place at the Tandon UGSRP awards ceremony in the category of Innovative Health Engineering!
Jun 26, 2022 - The Truong lab welcomes rising sophomore Iris Bibolli (Tandon UGSRP) for the summer.
Jun 7, 2022 - The Truong lab welcomes Master's student Sruthi Metukuru and rising sophomore Ece Aydin (Tandon UGSRP) for the summer.
Jun 1, 2022 - Sarah Levovitz officially passed her qualifying examination and has advanced to doctoral candidacy! The first in the lab.
Jan 26, 2022 - The Truong lab welcomes Guided Studies Master's students Sheila Atieno, Robby Moebius, and Eunice Chai for the spring semester.
Dec 7, 2021 - The Truong lab finally welcomes Minjoo Kim, PhD to the lab!
Nov 18, 2021 - The Truong lab had our first lab dinner outing at Colbeh in Manhattan.
Oct 20, 2021 - Lab Progress! We have basically most of our equipment and are ready to go! How it started vs. How it's going!
Oct 19, 2021 - Minjoo Kim, PhD has accepted an offer to join our group as the first postdoctoral fellow! Minjoo will be joining us December 1, after a 2 year postdoc with Sam Sternberg at Columbia University studying the structure of CRISPR/Cas9.
Sep 15, 2021 - The Truong lab welcomes Master's student Susanna Jaramillo! Susanna comes to us from the Biotechnology and Entrepreneurship program.
Sep 1, 2021 - The Truong lab welcomes our first intrepid PhD student Sarah Levovitz!
Sarah is entering with a prestigious Future Leaders Fellowship from the Office of the Dean!
Sep 1, 2021 - The Truong lab is awarded a 5-year New Innovator (DP2) award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to support the building of Programmable Dendritic Cells.
Sep 1, 2021 - The Truong lab is awarded a 1-year subcontract of a small business innovative research award (SBIR) from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) via Neochromosome Inc to support the building of immune-matched human iPSCs.
Sep 1, 2021 - The Truong lab officially opens at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
