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March 2025
Our proposal RP250069 is now awarded! Thank you to CPRIT for supporting this project.
February 2025
Congratulations to Xing-Han Zhang for receiving a T32 ES027801-06 fellowship from the TPEHS program! Thank you to the NIEHS for their support.
Hsp90 meeting report published.
January 2025
Congratulations to Xing-Han Zhang and Ruei-Liang Yan for passing their candidacy exams!
December 2024
Our NIH R01 CA295874 is now awarded! Thank you to the NCI for supporting this work.
November 2024
Delighted to share our new preprint in bioRxiv.
Farewell to Brant Gracia and congratulations on his new position!
October 2024
Congratulations Ruei and Xing on your excellent presentations at the 11th International Conference on the Hsp90 Chaperone Machine in Seeon, Germany!
July 2024
Delighted to share our new story is out in Science. Congratulations to our staff, Natalia, Hatim, and Dipak!
June 2024
Congratulations to Xing-Han Zhang for receiving the second best pre-candidacy talk prize at the MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Student Research Day!
February 2024
Congratulations to Ruei-Liang Yan on receiving an outstanding poster award at the Genetics and Systems Biology Retreat!
Congratulations to Brant Gracia on getting his story published in Cell Reports!
July 2023
We thank the Basser Center for BRCA for their funding support!
May 2023
Welcome to our amazing graduate students Zing-Han Zhang and Ruei-Liang Yan!
March 2023
Congratulations to Morike Ayodeji and Zoe Wang on their excellent poster presentations at the 50th Meeting of the Texas Genetics Society! Congratulations to Morike on receiving an outstanding presentation award!
Congratulations to Ruei-Liang Yan on delivering an amazing talk on his rotation project!
Congratulations to Brant Gracia on receiving the 2023 Dodie P. Hawn Award in Genetics for his outstanding contributions as postdoctoral fellow! The Dodie P. Hawn Fellowship is an endowment gifted to UT MD Anderson Cancer Center from the Earl C. Sams Foundation for the cancer genetics research program. Dorothy (“Dodie”) Hawn was an active civic leader and president of the foundation for over 15 years. The annual Dodie P. Hawn Award in Genetics is for postdoctoral fellows who demonstrate outstanding promise as contributors and innovators in research.
February 2023
Welcome Tania Jones to the lab!
December 2022
Congratulations to Sara Sanz Juste and Xing-Han Zhang on delivering amazing talks on their rotation projects!
October 2022
Congratulations to Brant Gracia on receiving first place poster award at the G&E retreat!
August 2022
Our work on mechanisms of DNA triplex-mediated gene editing is published! (PMID: 35988651)
Congratulations to Nikitha Kota on her amazing King Foundation Summer Program Presentation!
Farewell to our great summer students, Lauren Kearns, Nikitha Kota and Isabel Qin!
July 2022
Farewell to Nejla Ozirmak Lermi and congratulations on your new position!
June 2022
Welcome Isabel Qin and Lauren Kearns to the lab!
Congratulations Nikitha Kota for being selected for the Carl B. & Florence E. King Foundation High School Summer Program in Biomedical Sciences!
January 2022
Welcome Patricia Montes (University of St. Thomas, BS, 2021) to the lab!
Welcome Zoe Wang to the lab!
December 2021
Georgios received funding from The Joe W. & Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation.
September 2021
Georgios received the Kleberg Innovator Award from The Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation.
August 2021
Congratulations to Hatim Amiji on his admission to Medical School at Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine!
Farewell to our great summer CPRIT-CURE student Selena Ding! Congratulations on the great work this summer!
June 2021
Welcome Nikitha Kota (Carnegie Vanquard High School) to the lab!
May 2021
Welcome Tin Chanh Pham (National University of Singapore, PhD, 2020) to the lab!
Congratulations to Lily Didcock, Annette Jones, Priya Trakru and Matthew Yonas on the great work this semester!
April 2021
Congratulations to Brant Gracia on receiving the Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) F32 Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship for his postdoctoral work!
February 2021
Welcome Natalia Condic (University of St. Thomas, BS, 2020) to the lab!
September 2020
Welcome Hatim Amiji (Rice University, BS, 2020) to the lab!
June 2020
Welcome Beryl John (Bangalore University, MS, 2007) to the lab!
May 2020
Welcome to the lab to Rice undergraduate students Annette Jones, Lily Didcock, Priya Trakru and Matt Yonas, and to CPRIT CURE students Selena Ding (UC Berkeley) and Xing Zhang (Texas A&M). Congratulations to Selena and Xing on your awards!
Hatim Amiji graduates from Rice University! Congrats Hatim!
April 28, 2020
Congratulations to Anna Tanaka on her admission to Medical School at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine!
April 24, 2020
Congratulations to Hatim Amiji on receiving the Frederick B. Rudolph Award for Outstanding Senior student from Rice University!
April 10, 2020
Congratulations to Youssef Sabha on his admission to Graduate School at Rutgers University!
April 5, 2020
Georgios received funding from The Joe and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation
March 20, 2020
Congratulations to Dipak Patel on his admission to Graduate School at Baylor College of Medicine!
February 5, 2020
Georgios received the K22 Award from the NCI
February 1, 2020
Congratulations to Dipak Patel and Youssef Sabha on their promotions to research assistants!
December 12, 2019
KLab has annual Christmas lab party
September 21, 2019
Congratulations to Mélody Mazon on wining the best poster award at the 31st Fanconi Anemia Research Fund Symposium in Chicago!
August 30, 2019
Farewell to our great summer students, and congratulations to Anvita Kandru, Leenah Abojaib and Kian Behmard on the great work this summer!
August 14, 2019
Anna Tanaka and Gabriela Costa join the lab
June 4, 2019
Kian Behmard joins the lab as CPRIT-CURE summer student
June 17, 2019
Upasna Thapar joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow
June 24, 2019
Silas Amarell joins the lab as a research assistant I
January 14, 2019
Welcome to the lab to Rice undergraduate students Anvita Kandru, Leenah Abojaib and Hatim Amiji!
December 10, 2018
Congratulations to Mélody Mazon for being promoted to postdoctoral fellow!
June 12, 2018
Youssef Sabha joins the lab as a research technician
June 25, 2018
Mélody Mazon joins the lab as a research assistant II
April 18, 2018
Brant Gracia joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow
April 16, 2018
Dipak Patel joins the lab as a research technician
March 15, 2018
Karras Lab opens!