Recent grants, publications, and trainee achievements from the Rahme lab
2025
- The Rahme lab was awarded a two-year grant from the Brain Research Foundation, providing support for our work on epigenetic mechanisms in Brain tumors.
- Our collaborative work with the McBrayer, Bernstein, and Suvà Labs, examining early lineage effects of mutant Isocitrate Dehydrogenase in brain tumors is out as a preprint on BioRxiv. Click here to read it.
- Our collaborative study with the Tsirka lab investigating the role of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) in brain inflammation was published in Glia and was selected for the cover page. Click here to read it and here to see the cover image.
- Alexander Rhee was selected as both a Snyder Fellow (predoctoral fellowship) and an NIH T32 fellow. Congratulations Alex!
- Harriet Wu and Alexander Rhee successfully passed their PhD qualifying exams.
- Stilianos Papazahariou completed his two-year tenure as a research technician in the Rahme lab and transitioned into the MCP PhD program as a graduate student in the Rahme lab. Excited to continue working together.
- Welcome to Alexander Rhee, a Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology PhD student that joined the Rahme lab in the Spring term.
- Stilianos Papazahariou wins best poster presentation award at the annual Stony Brook Cancer Center retreat. Congratulations!
- Welcoming Sally Park, a Master's degree student, to the Rahme lab.
- Welcoming Caitlin Werner, a high school student who joined the Rahme lab for a summer internship.
- Aviya Boyce, an undergraduate researcher in the Rahme lab, was selected into the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP). Congratulations Aviya!
- Jina Yim successfully defended her Master's thesis.
2024
- Gilbert Rahme was induced into the American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) Alumni Research Network (AARN). Read more about our ABTA grant here.
- The Rahme lab was awarded three competitive grants: An American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (ACS-IRG) award, an American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) Discovery grant, and a Long Island Network for Clinical and Translational Science (LINCATS) pilot grant. We are grateful for the strong support of our research program.
- Welcome to Nahid Rabbi, a Master's degree student, to the Rahme lab.
- Welcome to Suyeon Emily Ryu and Madeline McCullough, high school students who joined the Rahme lab for summer internships.
- We were pleased to host Laura O'Sullivan, an undergraduate from the University of Pennsylvania, for a summer research experience.
- Congratulations to Jina Yim and Aviya Boyce on receiving best poster presentation awards.
- Our study defining a CTCF boundary at the FGF3/4 locus was published in Molecular Cell. Click here to read it.
- Welcome to Yuqianxun (Harriet) Wu, a genetics PhD student who joined the Rahme lab in the Spring term.
- Welcome to Aviya Boyce, Tammy Ruan, Eiki Shido, Afwan Mahmood, Diana Shao, and Yerona Lin, undergraduate researchers that joined the Rahme lab
- Gilbert Rahme was invited to present a seminar at the National Cancer Institute as part of the NCI Rising Scholars: Cancer Research Seminar Series.
2023
- Welcome to Jina Yim, a Master's student and the first graduate trainee to join the Rahme lab.
- Welcome to Stilianos Papazahariou, who joined the Rahme lab as a research technician.
- Welcome to Christian Jefferson, an undergraduate researched that joined the Rahme lab.
- Gilbert Rahme was invited to speak at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Special Conference in Cancer Research: Brain Cancer.
- Rahme laboratory opens at Stony Brook University.
- Our work that functionally demonstrates the role of epigenetic lesions in tumorigenesis is out at Cell. Click here to read it.
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