September 2024
Sam’s paper is published in Science!
Congratulations, Sam! You can read “The use of ectopic volar fibroblasts to modify skin identity” here.
The article is also featured on Fierce Biotech.
August 2024
Elizabeth joins the lab
Elizabeth Winnicki, an MSTP student (in the same cohort as Amy!), joins the Garza lab for her thesis 😊
July 2024
Amy joins the lab
Amy van Ee, a former undergraduate researcher in the lab and now an MSTP student, joins the Garza Lab for her thesis work. Welcome back, Amy! 🙂
May 2024
Garza Lab goes to SID2024 in Dallas, TX
Six members of the Garza Lab attended SID 2024 in Dallas, TX this month. Kaitlin, Yingchao, and Sam had mini symposia talks and Beita and Nina had poster presentations.
Kaitlin defends her PhD
Kaitlin Williams successfully defended her PhD and gave her public seminar on 5/2/24! She returns to medical school to complete her MD later this month.
September 2023
Hana joins the lab
Hana Minsky, MD/PhD student, joins the lab and hopes to explore immunology in the context of inflammatory skin disorders
July 2023
Beita joins the lab
Beita Badiei, MD student, joins the lab for a research fellowship and hopes to explore environmental risks of HS and how it affects enzymology.
June 2023
Eddie and Sung graduate!
Congratulations to Eddie Gibson MartÃnez Peña and Sung Kim, who completed their Masters’ in the lab and graduated in May! We loved having them with us for a few years!
Sung received his MS in Biochemistry & Molecular biology
Eddie received his MS in Biotechnology
May 2023
Garza lab takes Tokyo at ISID
Several members of the Garza Lab headed to Tokyo for the International Society of Investigative Dermatology 2023 conference. Sam, Kaitlin, Charlie, and Yingchao presented. We all enjoyed Japan and even got to experience an earthquake at the conference hotel.
March 2023
Research Career Development Award
Congratulations to Yingchao for being awarded the 2023 Research Career Development Award from the Dermatology Foundation!