Best wishes and good luck to Kim and Daping! You both contributed greatly to our lab and we know that you will be very successful in your next chapters of life! We will miss you!
Kim has taken a Staff Scientist posiiton at the Mayo Clinic and Daping has moved back to China to begin his own lab at the Institute of Neurosciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai.
Nothing beats bringing in the new year with food and good company! Lots to celebrate in the Chiu Labs past, present, and future. Cheers to another great year of scientific discoveries and breakthroughs!
Congrats to Liwen for having her work, "S. aureus drives itch and scratch-induced skin damage through a V8 protease-PAR1 axis"... Read more about PAPER ALERT!!!
Congratulations to our Lab Manager (and research assistant), Samantha and Research Assistant, Matthew for participating at the Second Annual Synaptogenesis RA Symposium!... Read more about Synaptogenesis RA Symposium
BIG congratulations to Dylan Neel, our newest Ph. D., for successfully defending his thesis! We are so proud of all that you have accomplished and know that you will continue to do big things going forward.
Congrats to Felipe and all the other Chiu lab members that contributed to one of our most recent publications in Nature; Bacteria hijack a meningeal neuroimmune axis to facilitate brain invasion. Linked below are two articles summarizing nicely why Dr. Ribeiro, and all of us in the Chiu lab are excited about his scientific findings.
Bacterial meningitis hits an immunosuppressive nerve: ...
Thank you News Medical for interviewing Dr. Isaac Chiu and Daping Yang to learn more about his current research linking pain to gut host protection. Click on the link below to learn more about how the sensation of pain is used by our gut to adapt and protect itself from its constantly changing environment.