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PCMM News
July 2026
PCMM researchers win prestigious fellowships
Four PCMM researchers have recently been honored with high-profile fellowships: Viet Le (Springer Lab) has been awarded an NIH RO3 grant, Quentin Smith (Ha and Farnung Labs) won an EMBO Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and Xiaotian Bi (Ha Lab) and Ninghe Sun (Zhang Lab) both won the Protecting the Talent Pipeline in Neurodegeneration Program Fellowships.
July 2026
Rejuvenating effects of interleukin-4 on blood stem cells
Dr. Jingfei Yao and Dr. Yuting Wang of the Zhang lab identify IL-4 as a promising cytokine in shifting the balance of myeloid and lymphoid cell populations in order to ameliorate systemic effects of chronic inflammation and aging.
June 2026
PCMM researchers win prestigious fellowships
Four PCMM researchers have recently been honored with high-profile fellowships: Zhouping Hong (Wu Lab) and Po-Ta Chen (Ha Lab) both won Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowships, Sherry Zhang (Hur Lab) won an NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Project Grant R21, and Ayijiang Yisimayi (Lieberman Lab) was awarded a Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship.
April 2026
Linear RAG scanning mediates editing of Igκ variable region repertoires
The laboratory of Dr. Frederick Alt, PhD has recently solved the long-standing puzzle of how the immune system edits autoreactive antibodies. Summarized by Clear Sky Science.
April 2026
Yi Zhang elected to National Academy of Sciences
Yi Zhang, PhD, Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Fred S. Rosen Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Zhang is among 120 members and 25 international members elected today in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
April 2026
Tim Springer and Yi Zhang elected to National Academy of Medicine
PCMM’s Tim Springer and Yi Zhang were among the newly elected members of the National Academy of Medicine announced on October 9, 2023.
January 2026
PCMM researchers win prestigious fellowships
Three Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine (PCMM) researchers have recently been honored with high-profile fellowships: Jhullian Alston (Ha Lab) won an HHMI Hanna Gray Fellowship, Camille Le Gall (Ploegh Lab) won an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship, and Molly Parsons (Hur Lab) won an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA postdoctoral fellowship.
July 2025
Julia Li joins PCMM
Julia Li, PhD has joined the Boston Children’s faculty as an Investigator of the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine (PCMM) and the Harvard Medical School faculty as an Assistant Professor of Genetics. She joins us from University of California at San Diego, where she was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Don Cleveland and received the Damon Runyon-Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists.
