Indzhykulian Lab

News

  • November, 2022. Congratulations to Pedro De-la-Torre for getting a Travel Award to present his poster at the 2023 Association for Research in Otolaryngology Annual meeting in Orlando, FL! 
  • November, 2022. Check out the story by Harvard Otolaryngology Magazine featuring our effort in development of mini-PCDH15 therapy for Usher 1F, in collaboration with David Corey (Harvard Neurobiology) and Marcos Sotomayor (Ohio State).
  • November, 2022. Shout-out to Joseph Brower (Junior at Harvard College) for presenting a poster at the Harvard Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Science (HUROS) Fair! Joseph reported the first crystal structure solved by our group! Great teamwork, Pedro De-la-Torre and Joseph Brower! 
  • October, 2022. Congratulations to Evan Hale  (G3 Harvard Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology graduate student) for presenting a talk on his AAV-based Ush1F gene therapy project at the SHBT graduate program retreat in Falmouth, Cape Cod! 
  • October, 2022. Shout-out to Chris Buswinka (G5 Harvard Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology graduate student) for presenting a poster on his mitochondria segmentation work at The Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems! 
  • October, 2022. Auntara Nandi, an undergraduate student from Birla Institute Of Technology & Science (Pilani University, India) has joined our team as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome, Auntara!
  • October, 2022. Check out this short testimony by Hannah Corderman, a young woman with Usher syndrome, illustrating the impact Usher syndrome can have on countless lives.
  • September, 2022. Congratulations to Rubina Simikyan for presenting a poster focusing on the visual deficit in the Ush1F mouse model at the HMS Research Assistant symposium! 
  • September, 2022. Karina Paola Martínez Pérez, a Master’s student at the Universidad del Atlántico (Colombia), joined our team as a Predoctoral Fellow. Welcome, Karina!
  • August, 2022. Aaron Paul, a sophomore in the Accelerated Physician-Scientist Program (BS/MD) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Albany Medical College, joined our team as a Student Intern. Welcome, Aaron!
  • June, 2022. Our collaborative multi-PI R01 grant proposal on mini-PCDH15 therapy for Usher 1F, with David Corey (Harvard Neurobiology) and Marcos Sotomayor (Ohio State) has been funded by NIH, and will support the development of this therapy for five years! Check out this brief announcement on our Department’s webpage.
  • June, 2022. Mona Jawad, an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignmajor with a major in bioengineering and minor in computer science, joined our team as a summer student intern. Welcome, Mona!
  • April, 2022. Congratulations to Tyler Morris for completing his work in the laboratory and submitting his undergraduate Senior Thesis Project! 
  • March, 2022. Congratulations to Joseph Brower for securing a Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE) fellowship for this summer! 
  • February, 2022. Congratulations to Richard Osgood for securing an ARO Travel Award to attend this year’s meeting! 
  • January, 2022. Our collaborative multi-PI R01 NIH grant proposal on mini-PCDH15 therapy for Usher 1F, with David Corey (Harvard Neurobiology) and Marcos Sotomayor (Ohio State), got a great score and was recommended for funding!
  • January, 2022. Rubina Simikyan, a Senior at Emmanuel College studying Biology with a concentration in Health Sciences, joined our team as a part-time Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome, Rubina!
  • January, 2022. Hidetomi Nitta, a fourth-year undergraduate student at Northeastern University with a major in Biology, joined our team as a full-time Undergraduate Research Assistant through Northeastern’s COOP program. Welcome Hidetomi!
  • December, 2021. Emily Nguyen, a highschool senior at Fenway High School, joined our team as a student intern. Welcome, Emily!
  • December, 2021. Congratulations to Richard Osgood for becoming a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society!  
  • November, 2021. The National Institute On Deafness And Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of National Institutes of Health (NIH) has approved our diversity supplement request, providing funding to support an additional position in the lab!
  • November, 2021. Congratulations to Cris Buswinka for getting an oportunity to present a podium talk at ARO 2022! 
  • September, 2021. Our collaborative grant proposal to develop mini-PCDH15 therapy for blindness in Usher 1F, with David Corey (Harvard Neurobiology) received a $1 million Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Award, and will support the development of this therapy for up to two years! Check out this brief announcement on our Department’s webpage.
  • August, 2021. The NIH Office of the Director funded our proposal for an “Administrative Supplement to Support Collaborations to Improve the AI/ML-Readiness of NIH-Supported Data”. Prepared together with Chris Buswinka, a graduate student in the lab, and based on his preliminary studies, this funding will be used to generate and share data annotations that can be used to train AI/ML-based solutions. Congratulations, Chris! 
  • July, 2021. After almost a 2-year delay due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, Dr. Richard Osgood finally joins our team as a postdoctoral fellow! Welcome, Richard! 
  • July, 2021. Rachel Gamburg, a rising junior at Bucknell University, joined the laboratory as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome, Rachel!
  • June 2021. Joseph Brower, a rising sophomore at Harvard College, joins our team as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome, Joseph! 
  • February 2021. Tyler Morris, a junior Harvard College student, joins our team as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome, Tyler! 
  • April 2020. Our data descriptor manuscript entitled “Serial scanning electron microscopy of anti-PKHD1L1 immuno-gold labeled mouse hair cell stereocilia bundles” was accepted for publicatin to Scientific Data. This work was done in collaboration with the Corey laboratory. 
  • July 2019. One of collaborative projects in our lab has been featured by the Bertarelli Foundation in a short movie posted on Foundation’s YouTube channel.

Neuroscience for Sensory Disorders: #BertarelliNeuro at Harvard Medical School

  • May 2019. Pedro De-La-Torre, PhD is joining our laboratory as a postdoctoal fellow, adding his strong structural biology and X-ray crystallography background to the lab’s portfolio. 
  • April 2019. David Rosenberg, MD is joining our laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow to expand our effort on gene therapy!
  • April 2019. We are very pleased to welcome Dhun Chauhan to join our group as an undergraduate research assistant starting this summer!
  • March 2019. We are very pleased to welcome Grace Zhang to join our group tnis summer! 
  • March 2019. The National Institute On Deafness And Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of National Institutes of Health (NIH) has approved our diversity supplement request, providing funding to support an additional position in the lab!
  • January 2019. We are very pleased to welcome Daniel Hathaway to join our group as an undergraduate research assistant!
  • October 2018. The Bertarelli Program in Translational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering at Harvard Medical School has granted a Bertarelli Collaborative Research Award to support our work on Usher syndrome.
  • July 2018. The National Institute On Deafness And Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded our research proposal entitled “Molecular Basis of Hair Cell Stereocilia Bundle Morphology”. Our laboratory is NIH-funded until 2023!  
  • June 2018. Thanks to a $3 million gift from an anonymous donor supplemented with additionals funds, our laboratory has received a Development Award from HMS Quadrangle Fund for Advancing and Seeding Translational Research (Q-FASTR) to carry out an AAV-based gene therapy project.  This work will be done in collaboration with Dr. David Corey (Harvard Neurobiology) and Dr. Marcos Sotomayor (Ohio State).
  • May 2018. Our R01 application has been recommended for funding by the National Institute On Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Advisory Council! The official Notice of Award to follow in July!
  • May 2018. We are very excited to welcome postdoctoral fellows Dr. Olga Strelkova and Dr. ChunJie Tian to join our group in July 2018!
  • February 2018. Our R01 application entitled “Molecular Basis of Hair Cell Stereocilia Bundle Morphology” has received favorable reviews and a promising score, suggesting it could potentially be funded! 
  • January 2018. Indzhykulian lab opened in January 2018!