Past Lab News
August 2022, New member joined. John Blankenhorn has recently joined us as a Research Specialist. Read John's profile on our Current Lab Members page.
August 2022, We are excited to have the undergraduate and high school students join the lab this fall.
July 2022, Congratulations to the Liang Lab for being awarded a new MPI NIH R01 Funding “Understanding the functional impacts of Aβ variants in Alzheimer's disease with human brain organoids”.
June 2022, Congratulations to the Liang Lab for continuing funding from the CDC for 2023.
May 2022, We are excited to start the 2022 Liang Lab Summer Program. Welcome all participants and enjoy!
May 2022, Congratulations to Claire Ogilvie being accepted into the PhD Chemistry program at Duke University.
May 2022, We are excited to have the following new students join the lab this spring.
April 2022, Congratulations to Julia Slack for being accepted into the PhD nursing program focusing on oncology-based symptom science at Duke University.
April 2022, Congratulations to the Liang Lab for being awarded the 2022 Synergy II Nexus Award at Emory University.
March 2022, Congratulations to Bowei Deng for being accepted into the PhD Pharmacology programs at Emory, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Cornell, and Duke University.
November 2021, New member joined. Dr. Zhenhang Chen has recently joined us as a postdoctoral fellow. Read Zhenhang's profile on our Current Lab Members page.
October 2021, New member joined. Natalie Horgan has recently joined us as a research specialist. Read Natalie's profile on our Current Lab Members page.
October 2021, Dr. Bo Liang receives Emory SOM Hidden Gem Award.
September 2021, New member joined. Joan Adebowale has recently joined us as laboratory manager. Read Joan's profile on our Current Lab Members page.
July 2021, New member joined. Dylan Blohm has recently joined us as a laboratory assistant. Read Dylan's profile on our Current Lab Members page.
July 2021, Congratulations to the Liang Lab for receiving funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
June 2021, Congratulations to the Liang Lab for being awarded the 2021 American Lung Association Innovation Award.
May 2021, Congratulations, Brandon Franklin Young, a postdoctoral fellow in the Liang Lab, awarded the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Program Award.
May 2021, Our 2021 ADRC Pilot Application got awarded.
May 2021, The 2021 Liang Lab Summer Program started. Welcome all participants and enjoy!
April 2021, Congratulations, Max Ahn, a Liang lab member, defended the highest honor in the Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program (NBB) Honors Thesis as an Emory undergraduate student.
March 2021, Congratulations, Anna Antonova, an Emory undergraduate student in the Liang lab, for being accepted to the Pharmacology Program at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences!
March 2021, New member joined. Aidan Troha has recently joined us as a laboratory assistant. Read Aidan's profile on our Current Lab Members page.
October 2020, Paper published. Congratulations to Dongdong Cao et al. for their paper titled “In Vitro primer-base RNA elongation and promoter fine mapping of the respiratory syncytial virus”, publishing by the Journal of Virology (JVI)!
September 2020, New member joined. Dr. Young has recently joined us in September as a post-doctoral fellow. Read Dr. Young's profile on our Current Lab Members page.
July 2020, Paper published. Congratulations to Yunrong Gao et al. for their paper titled “Structure of Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus M2-1 Protein in Complex with a Short Positive-Sense Gene-End RNA", publishing by Structure!
Past Lab Funding
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- American Lung Association (ALA)
- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center/National Institute on Aging (ADRC/NIA)
- The Molecules and Pathogens to Populations and Pandemics (MP3) Initiative, Emory University
- The University Research Committee (URC), Emory University
- Synergy II Nexus Award, Emory University