2024 Jason Huang Awarded Irving Klotz Prize for Basic Research from Northwestern University for his Honor Thesis research in the Ma laboratory
2024 Novel Biological Mechanism Discovered That Could Lead to Treatments for Neurological Disorders
2023 New Therapeutic Strategies for Spinal Muscular Atrophy
2022 Dr. Yongchao Ma Invested with Children’s Fund Endowed Professorship
2021 Michael Kahl Conferred Mary J. C. Hendrix Outstanding Graduate Student Award
2020 Saravanan Arumugam Honored with Award of Excellence at Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute Biomedical Symposium
2019 New Insights Into Role of RNA Methylation in Fragile X Syndrome
2019 Created for Collaboration
2019 Study Looks at Stem Cells for Answers to How a Type of Autism Develops
2018 Brittany Edens Honored with Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award
2017 New Gene Identified in Lou Gehrig’s Disease
2017 ALS/FTD Genes Reveal Pathways to Pathology
2016 $1.5 Million Grant for SMA Research to Yongchao Ma
2015 Ma Lab Investigating Neurodegeneration in SMA, Parkinson’s Disease
2015 Pathway Signals Motor Neuron Death in Spinal Muscular Atrophy