2024 September. Irena wins poster prize at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Annual Retreat. Congratulations Irena!
2024 September The American Cancer Society comes to the lab to document our science on video.
2024 July Lillian receives the American Cancer Society‘s Breaking Barriers Award at the Celebrating Excellence in Female Leadership event.
https://oncodaily.com/blog/106780
https://x.com/ShilatifardLab/status/1813310342702760253
2024 June DGP graduate student Allegra Minor joins the lab. Welcome Allegra!
2024 March Lillian co-organizes the SQE Institute for Epigenetics “Tumor Metabolism, Epigenetics and Immunity” Symposium with BMG colleague Dr. Issam Ben-Sahra.
https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/epigenetics/docs/sqe-symposium-metabolism-2024.pdf
2023 November The Eichner Lab attends the American Cancer Society Taste of Hope Event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QWi0JHoYjs
2023 September American Cancer Society Associate Board of Ambassadors hosts the Skyline Soiree.
https://secure.acsevents.org/site/STR?pg=entry&fr_id=105535
Lillian is honored as the 2023 Chuck Maniscalco Grant of Hope Illinois Cancer Research Fund recipient.
2023 August V Foundation awards the Eichner Lab a V Scholar Program grant.
https://www.v.org/grants/lillian-eichner-phd/
2023 August Evan awarded a T32 Carcinogenesis graduate training fellowship. Congratulations Evan!
2023 July Lillian honored by the American Cancer Society as a ResearcHERS Scholar
https://www.mysocietysource.org/Pages/newsdetails.aspx?ItemID=2428
American Cancer Society awards the Eichner Lab a Research Scholar grant and a Mission Boost Stage I grant.
2023 July Research Technician Lois Bull joins the lab. Welcome Loey!
2023 June DGP graduate student Evan Couser joins the lab. Welcome Evan!
2023 March Our findings about the role of HDAC3 in lung cancer are published in Science Advances:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add3243
Related press:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230317184940.htm
2023 March Irena awarded a T32 CMBD graduate training fellowship. Congratulations Irena!
2022 December Lillian awarded an NCI K22 Transition Career Development award.
2022 June DGP graduate student Irena Gushterova joins the lab. Welcome Irena!
2022 Winter Research Technicians Caroline McGuire and Ambryn Meehan get the lab started with Lillian.