News and Updates
October 2024
There have been many exciting developments over the past year! Here is a brief summary:
In April, we published our first paper in Nature, which can be read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07300-8
Our former technician, Martina Markovska, started her PhD at Penn in August. Best of luck Martina!
Our lab grew…again! Excited to welcome our new PhD students, Jessica Barragan (co-mentored with John Wherry) and Oishi Bardhan (co-mentored with Will Bailis), bioinformatician Steven Pastor, technician Adi Bharti, postbacc researcher Matt Bode, and Penn undergrad Siddharth Chitta.
In September, the lab was awarded a $1.5M NIH New Innovator Award to engineer a suite of epigenetic reprogramming factors to enhance CAR T fitness.
Kat Mueller was named a finalist for the prestigious HHMI Hanna Gray Fellows program.
Jose Arias-Umana and Geoffrey Rouin will be presenting posters at SITC 2024.
August 2023
Lab update: we’ve grown!
It’s been an incredible first 18 months growing the lab at Penn and CHOP. Very excited to have welcomed Kat Mueller and Yingshi Chen (postdocs), Rob Hapke (MD/PhD student), Faith Ryu (Penn undergrad), and more recently, Gab Zuern (technician), and Jeremy Grenier (Peds/onc clinical fellow). Also, a special shoutout to our former rockstar technician Brett Mozarsky who recently started med school at Harvard. We’ll miss him, but big things lie ahead in Boston!
Looking forward to updating the world on some of our work in the coming months at CAR-TCR Summit, Jonas Center Cellular Therapy Symposium, SITC, and ASH. Stay tuned!
Lab meetings and CAR Club are now in session :)
June 2022
Welcome new lab members!
An official welcome to CAMB PhD student Jose Arias-Umana, who recently finished his rotation and will be joining the lab for his dissertation work, and to our CAMB PhD rotation student Geoff Rouin. Also excited to welcome Brett Mozarsky and Martina Markovska who have joined the lab as research assistants. More lab members on the way, so stay tuned!
July 2022
Weber Lab awarded grant from the V Foundation
We are honored to receive a Translational Grant from the V Foundation to develop engineering-based approaches to enhance the persistence of CAR-T cells, and perform epigenetic analyses on CAR-T cells from patients with durable CAR-T persistence. More info can be found here: https://www.v.org/grants-awarded/to/evan-weber-phd/
February 2022
The Weber Lab is open for business
November 2021
SITC Rosenberg Scholars Award
Evan was awarded the SITC Steven A. Rosenberg Scholars Award given to early career scientists focused on cancer immunotherapy. This award will fund the lab’s efforts to develop novel approaches to enhance T cell therapies for cancer.
October 2021
The Weber Lab officially opens its doors in February 2022 at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine!
For those interested in applying for a position, please email Evan Weber directly at weberew@chop.edu
