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Dr. Beverly Davidson was recently interviewed by USA Today on the impact CRISPR has had on science!
Check it out here: “What is CRISPR? Can it cure cancer? Gene editing, explained”
Thank you to everyone who read our publication “Gene therapy for ALS: A review”. We are so happy that we were able to share decades of excellent research. To join the many others you can read it here:
International Congress for Ataxia Research Conference 2022
We are excited to welcome back our amazing scientists Ashley Robbins, Dr. Carolyn Yrigollen, and PI Dr. Beverly Davidson after being invited to give a talk along with Kelly Fagan, and Bryan Simpson who presented posters at the 2022 ICAR conference! We hope you had a great time, and know you wow’ed the crowds with your research!
A special shout out to Dr. Carolyn Yrigollen for winning second place in the lighting talk session for patients, families and caretakers! As a lab we always keep patients in mind, and Dr. Yrigollen is an excellent example of this. Congratulations on the award, it’s well deserved!
Congratulations to our summer interns Ramata and Zoe for completing the CHOP Research Internship for Scholars and Emerging Scientists (CHOP-RISES). We were very happy to have them in our lab working with Dr. Carolyn Yrigollen and hope they are inspired to continue pursuing science!
To see more about the program and some of the students check out this article: https://www.research.chop.edu/cornerstone-blog/students-graduate-from-a-summer-of-science
Check out Dr. Luis Tecedor’s artwork which was chosen for the July 6th, 2022 copy of Molecular Therapy: https://twitter.com/MolTherapy/status/
Congratulations to Dr. Carolyn Yrigollen for being awarded the National Fragile X Foundation’s Junior Investigator Award! This award recognizes upcoming investigators in the Fragile X field. You can find the abstract for her talk here: https://fragilex.org/our-research/projects/jr-investigators/
Dr. Alex Mas Monteys’ recent publication, “Regulated control of gene therapies by drug-induced splicing”, has been chosen for reprint in the first iteration of the Nature Genomic medicine collection. Now available here: https://www.nature.com/collections/abfchdaiee/
Congratulations to our very own Alicia Smith on successfully defending her Masters in Pharmacology!
She will continue her research in the Davidson lab, furthering our understanding of factors that modulate TDP-43 pathology.
The Philadelphia Inquirer paid the lab a visit for their feature on the ever-growing gene and cell therapy research sector and recent advancements made by our lab. Read the article here.
Thank you to the Hereditary Disease Foundation for featuring the Davidson Lab at the 2021 Virtual Gala!
Bryan Simpson and Carolyn Yrigollen will be presenting their work at the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting. Bryan is presenting a poster on October 18th where he shares his data using PCR free long read sequencing to characterize gene editing in ataxia mouse models. Carolyn is giving a platform talk on October 19th where she will share her data on gene editing the CGG repeat in CGG knock-in mice.
Happy postdoc appreciation week! We celebrated with donuts and a glorious postdoc parade.
Our very own Sophie St. Cyr was featured in the Help 4 HD podcast series! Check it out here!
Shout out to 2nd year PhD candidate, Jesse Weber, for being recognized with an Excellence in Research Award at ASGCT 2021!
Our 2nd year graduate student, Jesse Weber, is officially a PhD candidate! Congratulations Jesse on passing your candidacy exam!
First lab outing of 2021 at El Camino in Northern Liberties!
Lab Dinner at El Camino, July 2021
Congratulations to Ashley Robbins for being awarded an NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (F31) from NINDS. This fellowship will fund the next two years of her PhD training!
Shout out to 2nd year PhD candidate, Jesse Weber, for being recognized with an Excellence in Research Award at ASGCT 2021!
Lab Fun with Vi and Carolyn
We are excited to welcome our first rotation student of the 2020, Vi Pham! Vi is a first-year PhD student in the CAMB-GTV graduate program.
Shout out to Kelly Fagan for being recognized at the 2020 UPenn CAMB Research Symposium for best poster in her graduate group! Her poster was titled “CRISPR/Cas9 Strategies to Treat Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1”
Congratulations to Ashley Robbins for being awarded the Computational Genomics T32 training grant to fund her PhD thesis work!
Our 2nd year NGG graduate student, Ashley Robbins, passed her candidacy exam!
We are excited to congratulate Dr. Jon Lang for his successful PhD defense!
Congrats to Jon Lang, an MD/PhD student in our lab, for winning the UPENN Balduin Lucke Memorial Prize for his recent paper! Check out his publication here!
In November 2019, the Davidson Lab celebrated Dr. Beverly Davidson's election to the National Academy of Medicine!
Dr. Megan Keiser wins the Excellence in Research Award for Students and Fellows at the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy 21st annual meeting on May 17th. 2018.
Congrats to Dr. Beverly Davidson, Raymond G. Perelman CCMT director, on her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Read more about this prestigious award here.
Hoppy's Hope raised $40,000 for a second year in row for Huntington's disease research! Half will go towards Dr. Beverly Davidson's work at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and half will go to Dr. Pedro Gonzalez-Alegre's studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Thank you Hoppy's Hope for helping us to continue our work towards discovering therapies for HD
In June 2016, Davidson Lab made a trip to watch the Phillies take on the Toronto Blue Jays. Go Phillies!
Questions about RNA interference? Here's a video of Dr. Beverly Davidson explaining the use of RNAi for the treatment of Huntington's Disease. Watch Video
In honor of Rare Disease Day on February 29th, 2016, Dr. Luis Tecedor's image of neurons expressing TPP1 was chosen as the Biomedical Picture of the Day (BPoD). Read more here.
In June 2015, Hoppy's Hope donated $40,000 to Davidson Lab to continue their research on Huntington's Disease. The money will be used to further the work of finding therapies for this genetically inherited disorder. Thank you Hoppy's Hope for your support!
