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4\/7\/26- Congrats to Zewde for receiving a 3-year Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F31 Award) from the National Institutes of Health!<\/p>\n

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4\/3\/26- Congrats to Zach for receiving an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Award to fund his research this summer!<\/p>\n

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1\/13\/26- Congrats to Zainab for receiving an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Award to fund her research this semester!<\/p>\n

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11\/20\/25- Elliott is awarded the Junior Faculty Mentoring Award<\/a> from the Department of Medicine at Boston University!<\/p>\n

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10\/13\/25- The lab attends the 2025 International ZDM18<\/a> Meeting in Boston, MA – congrats to Gwen for winning an Oral Abstract Award and to Zewde for winning the Top Student Poster Award!!<\/p>\n

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10\/3\/25- Congrats to Zach for receiving an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Award to fund his research this semester!<\/p>\n

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8\/12\/25- Cal officially leaves the lab to start his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan!<\/p>\n

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7\/28\/25- Our BU-BMC Summer Science Scholars Program hosts its latest cohort of local high school students!<\/p>\n

Check out the compilation video (with audio)<\/a><\/strong> highlighting our 2025 program!<\/span><\/p>\n

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5\/15\/25- The lab welcomes Maura Dodge as our newest PhD student!<\/p>\n

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5\/1\/25 – The lab is awarded an NIH R01 grant from the NHLBI for our work on blood stem cell migration!<\/p>\n

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5\/1\/25- Boston Medical Center’s HealthCity highlights the lab’s work in a recent article<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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4\/1\/25- The lab welcomes Zainab Wasim as our newest undergraduate student!<\/p>\n

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4\/10\/25- Congrats to Gwen for winning a Research Talk Award at the 2025 BU Graduate Medical Sciences Research Symposium<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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3\/13\/25- Our BU-BMC Summer Science Scholars program<\/a> was awarded a $10,000 Pilot Grant Award from the Department of Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine! The additional support of this award will help to expand the reach of our program through increased student enrollment and more extensive community engagement!<\/p>\n

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5\/31\/24- Congrats to Zewde for giving an amazing talk and to Gwen for winning a best poster award at the 2024 Boston Area Zebrafish Researcher Meeting<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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\"\"5\/31\/24- The Hagedorn lab, along with the Feng, Serrano and Cifuentes labs at BU hosts the 2024 Boston Area Zebrafish Researcher Meeting<\/a>, with over 130 attendees from 23 different labs!<\/p>\n

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5\/2\/24- Congrats to Elliott, Gwen, Zewde, Khaliun and Zoya for having their application selected as the BU Med campus nomination to apply for the 2025 Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research<\/a> award!<\/p>\n

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4\/23\/24- Congrats to Elliott, Gwen, Zewde, Khaliun and Zoya for being awarded a GSI Pilot Grant<\/a> from the Genome Science Institute at Boston University!<\/p>\n

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4\/16\/24- This week our high school outreach program<\/a> was featured in a blog post<\/a> by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)!<\/p>\n

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4\/8\/24- Congrats to Leila and Cal for being awarded Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Awards to fund their research this summer!<\/p>\n

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1\/23\/24- Congrats to Zewde for being awarded a graduate fellowship from the Carter Fund for Cancer Disparities at BMC!<\/p>\n

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1\/11\/24- Congrats to Tahreem for receiving an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Award to fund her research this semester!!<\/p>\n

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1\/3\/24- This week our summer high school outreach program was featured<\/a> in the BMC Research Matters newsletter and on the BMC website!<\/p>\n

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10\/19\/23- Congrats to Gwen for winning 1st Place with her poster presentation at the Department of Medicine Evans Day 2023!<\/p>\n

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9\/28\/23- Congrats to Jesse and Cal for being awarded Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Awards to fund their research this fall!<\/p>\n

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9\/8\/23- Congrats to Elliott for receiving a Bridge Funding Award from Boston Medical Center!<\/p>\n

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6\/27\/23- Congrats to Gwen for being awarded a three-year Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research! Click here<\/a> to learn more about the JCC and the postdoctoral research fellows they support.<\/p>\n

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6\/14\/23- Congrats to Elliott for being awarded an AABB Early-Career Scientific Research Grant from the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (formerly known as the National Blood Foundation)!<\/p>\n

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5\/20\/23- Congrats to Jesse and Katherine for starting their summer internships at Takeda and Moderna, respectively!<\/p>\n

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5\/19\/23- Congrats to Jack Norton for graduating from Boston University with his BA and MS in biology! Jack will be starting later this month as a Research Associate at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL).<\/p>\n

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4\/30\/23- Congrats to Gwen for winning the Best Post-doctoral Talk Award and to Zewde for winning a Best Graduate Student Poster Award at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology (NESDB) in Woods Hole, MA!!<\/p>\n

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4\/28\/23- Congrats to Elliott, Dana, and Khaliun for the publication of their work in Developmental Cell<\/em> (and for getting the cover)!<\/p>\n

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2\/21\/23- Congrats to Gwen and Khaliun of the Hagedorn Lab for being awarded an ASCB COMPASS Outreach Grant<\/a> for our BU-BMC HemOnc Summer Outreach Program!<\/p>\n

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1\/13\/23- This past week we hosted Dr. Wassim El-Nemer from Marseille, France! Wassim was here as part of a collaborative project with our group and the labs of Drs. Jean-Antoine Ribeil and Shuaiying Cui.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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10\/21\/22- Emily and Jack present their research at their Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) poster session! \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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10\/13\/22- Khaliun and Dana\u00a0represent the Hagedorn Lab in the Hematology\/Oncology Basic Research Section at the Department of Medicine Evans Day Conference.<\/span><\/p>\n

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9\/28\/22- Congrats to Su Yeon Song for receiving an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Award to fund her research this semester!<\/p>\n

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5\/31\/22- Congrats to <\/span>Zewde Ingram and\u00a0<\/span>Gwen Beacham for being awarded two-year\u00a0<\/span>pre- and\u00a0<\/span>post-doctoral funding from the TL1\/CTSI training program in Regenerative Medicine!<\/span><\/p>\n

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4\/25\/22- Congrats to Khaliun Enkhbayar for successfully defending her undergraduate thesis!<\/p>\n

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4\/5\/22- Congrats to Emily Henault and Jack Norton for receiving Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Awards to fund their research this summer!<\/p>\n

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2\/4\/22- Congrats to Elliott Hagedorn for receiving the BU-BMC Cancer Center’s Cancer Research Innovator Award!<\/p>\n

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1\/3\/22- Congrats to Jack Norton for receiving an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Award to fund his research this semester!<\/p>\n

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10\/15\/21- The growing Hematology\/Oncology Section takes a new group photo!<\/p>\n

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10\/8\/21- Congrats to Khaliun Enkhbayar for winning 2nd place for her oral presentation at the Department of Medicine Evan’s Day Conference!<\/p>\n

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9\/29\/21- Congrats to Emily Henault for receiving an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Award to fund her research this semester!<\/p>\n

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8\/9\/21- Eric from Nikon gives a tutorial on the Polygon DMD.<\/span><\/p>\n

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6\/23\/21- Congrats to Elliott Hagedorn for being awarded a Career Investment Award from the Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine!<\/span><\/p>\n

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6\/21\/21- Justine’s first day in lab! Justine’s internship will be funded by a Polysciences Life Sciences Fellowship.<\/p>\n

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6\/2\/21- Helen’s first day in lab! Helen’s internship will be funded by the Praxis Award from Smith College.<\/p>\n

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4\/22\/21- Our fish are growing! Khaliun and Dana check on our fish in the Aquatics Facility.<\/p>\n

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3\/26\/21- Congrats to Khaliun Enkhbayar for receiving an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Award\u00a0 to fund her summer research!<\/p>\n

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4\/16\/21- Our microscope room is up and running!<\/p>\n

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3\/18\/2021- Emily’s first day in lab!<\/p>\n

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2\/8\/21- Todd starts his rotation in the Hagedorn Lab!<\/p>\n

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1\/9\/21- Khaliun’s first day in lab!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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