News
March 18, 2024:
Another proud PI moment! Celebrating Sunny passing her qualifying exam!
Happy New Year from the Franklin Lab! Expecting big things in 2024!
December 2023: Congrats to Alan for receiving an F31 Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship from NIH NHLBI! This funding will support his work to understand Macrophage-Mediated Lung Repair Programs Following Injury
December 2023: First Pre-print from the lab!!!! Macrophages control pathological interferon responses during viral respiratory infection
December 2023: Kudos to Patricia for receiving a scholarship from the J&J Scholars of Immunology Diversity Engagement Program!
November 2023: Check out our new review: Macrophage phenotypes and functions: resolving inflammation and restoring homeostasis Congrats to Patricia on this work!
Lab apple picking! Thankful for these stellar scientists!
Amazing International Cytokine & Interferon Society meeting in Athens! Proud to be a member of the ICIS community!
Photo in place of Daisy rocking her poster presentation at the conference! (Temple of Hephaistos in background)
October 2023:
Honored to accept the ICIS-Regeneron New Investigator Award for Excellence in Cytokine & Interferon Research!
Athens, Greece (pictured with George Yancopoulos)
September 2023: Pleased to welcome our newest lab member, Shahin!
Franklin lab summer BBQ!
August 2023:
Proud of summer student, Julia, for a fantastic summer research project!
June 2023:
Lab celebratory dinner!
So much to celebrate as the lab turns 3! Two new grad students (Martha & Sunny), summer student from Bowdoin (Julia, happy bday!), first lab NIH grant (woop!), trainee talk award (Patricia), and just general awesomeness of this team!
June 2023: Thrilled that grad students Sunny and Martha are joining the lab!!
Alan presenting his work at the Immunology dept. retreat!
June 2023:
Another successful Immunology Dept. retreat!
Huge congrats to Patricia for winning “Best Trainee Talk” award! (pictured here with Arlene Sharpe)
June 2023:
Alicia, we will miss you!!
Sad to say goodbye to my first lab member, Alicia! Unbelievably grateful for all Alicia’s help as I started the lab! Wishing you the best of luck in your future adventures!
May 2023:
Congrats McKenna!!
The first undergrad to complete a Senior Thesis in the Franklin lab has graduated! Looking forward to McKenna’s future success as she moves on to UPenn for graduate school!
April 2023:
The Franklin Lab at 11,000 feet!
Keystone Symposia: From First Breath: Lung Development, Infection, Repair & Aging/ Inflammation in the Lung: Friend or Foe in Viral Infections?
Snowbird, UT
January 2023: Happy to welcome two BBS rotation students, Martha and Sunny!
December 2022:
Happy Holidays from the Franklin Lab!
October 2022:
It’s not fall in New England without apple picking!!
End of summer BBQ!
August 2022: Happy to share another story from my postdoc! Microenvironmental sensing by fibroblasts controls macrophage population size
July 2022: Welcome Mickey, our first Harvard/MIT MD-PhD rotation student!
July 3, 2022:
Had a wonderful time celebrating the marriage of Alex and Brinda! (the Franklin lab cleans up nicely!)
Top notch color coordination at the Immunology dept. retreat!
June 2022:
Enjoying the sun at the Harvard Immunology departmental retreat!
Cape Cod, MA
June 2022: Happy birthday McKenna!
May 3, 2022:
More congrats for Patricia!! Happy to celebrate Patricia passing her qualifying exam! Woohoo!
April 2022: Patricia was awarded a fellowship from the NSF GRFP! CONGRATS on this tremendous accomplishment!
March 2022: Congratulations to McKenna for being awarded the Harvard PRISE fellowship to perform research in the lab this summer!
March 7, 2022:
Proud PI moment! Popping some bubbly to celebrate Alan passing his qualifying exam—a Franklin Lab first!
February 2022: Pleased to welcome BBS rotation student Hyunho and undergraduate student McKenna!
January 2022: Welcome Alex, our newest postdoc!
December 2021:
Happy Holidays from the Franklin Lab! 2021 was a crazy year, but so excited to see what 2022 has in store!
Photo: Holiday Lunch at Time-Out/Trillium brewery
October 2021:
Welcome to our first postdoc, Daisy and undergrad, Emily! Love watching the lab grow!
Photo: Post-grant submission celebratory BBQ
July 2021:
Ecstatic to officially welcome the first two Franklin lab grad students to the team! Can’t wait to see what Patricia & Alan will accomplish!
Photo: Chiu/Franklin/Jackson Tri-lab picnic