Jan 28, 2025 - In collaboration with the Sadowski and Mathews labs, we've been awarded an up to 5 year R61/R33 multi-PI grant from the National Institute of Aging to build an off-the-shelf CAR-macrophage therapy for Alzheimer's!
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Dec 19, 2024 - Federico Jimenez officially passed his Master's Thesis exam!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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.
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April 1, 2023 - The Truong lab welcomes our third Postdoctoral Fellow, Tomoki Yanagi, MD/PhD.
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Oct 27, 2022 - The Truong lab's first little news article publication is out in Synthetic Biology.
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Sep 19, 2022 - The Truong lab welcomes our second Postdoctoral Fellow, Serena Generoso, PhD.
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Sep 1, 2022 - The Truong lab welcomes our second PhD student, Sumanth Dara, MS.
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Aug 12, 2022 - Ece Aydin wins 1st place at the Tandon UGSRP awards ceremony in the category of Innovative Health Engineering!
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Jun 26, 2022 - The Truong lab welcomes rising sophomore Iris Bibolli (Tandon UGSRP) for the summer.
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Jun 7, 2022 - The Truong lab welcomes Master's student Sruthi Metukuru and rising sophomore Ece Aydin (Tandon UGSRP) for the summer.
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Jun 1, 2022 - Sarah Levovitz officially passed her qualifying examination and has advanced to doctoral candidacy! The first in the lab.
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Jan 26, 2022 - The Truong lab welcomes Guided Studies Master's students Sheila Atieno, Robby Moebius, and Eunice Chai for the spring semester.
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Dec 7, 2021 - The Truong lab finally welcomes Minjoo Kim, PhD to the lab!
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Nov 18, 2021 - The Truong lab had our first lab dinner outing at Colbeh in Manhattan.
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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!
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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.
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Sep 15, 2021 - The Truong lab welcomes Master's student Susanna Jaramillo! Susanna comes to us from the Biotechnology and Entrepreneurship program.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Sep 1, 2021 - The Truong lab officially opens at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
