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Naija's presentation at Synaptogenesis Symposium

November 10, 2025

Naija Barakat, Chiu lab research assistant and PiNBAC trainee gave a fantastic talk at the 4th annual Synaptogenesis symposium! Thanks to Harvard Brain Science Initiative and HMS Department of Neurobiology for hosting!

Congratulations to Georgia for her paper!

September 24, 2025

Congratulations to Georgia on her new paper “Gasdermin D is activated but does not drive neurodegeneration in SOD1 model of ALS: Implications for targeting pyroptosis”, published in Neurobiology of Disease! The Chiu lab got together over lunch to...

Jessie's poster presentation at the Harvard immunology summer program

August 07, 2025

Jessie, who is an undergraduate in the Chiu Lab, presented her poster at the Harvard Immunology Summer Program on August 7th, 2025. We are proud of her hard work and are excited to see her build on this achievement and continue making meaningful...

Congratulations to Nicole for her Science Immunology paper!

July 30, 2025

Congratulations to Nicole on her new paper on how vagal sensory neurons regulate influenza virus infections, published in Science Immunology! Together, the lab celebrated her great achievement and efforts in driving this project toward publication by...

Naija's poster presentation at NESS

March 31, 2025

Naija Barakat, our talented PiNBAC trainee presented a poster at New England Science Symposium on March 30th, 2025. It was great seeing all of her hard work in the Chiu lab and we look forward to seeing her continued growth and future contributions to the...

Check out Becca's feature in Emmanuel College's "The Pulse"

February 05, 2025

An undergraduate student from our lab, Rebecca Markie is featured in an article by Emmanuel College's T he Pulse. Click on the link below to learn more about Becca's work in the Chiu lab and her achievements on campus! https://www.emmanuel.edu/pulse/story...

Celebration for Isaac's recent tenure promotion

February 03, 2025

We would like to thank the immunology department for organizing a wonderful celebration. We got to see so many impactful people from Isaac's career. Thank you to everyone who came, and congratulations, Professor Chiu!

Congratulations Isaac on Tenure!

October 17, 2024

Congrats to Dr. Chiu on his promotion to Professor of Immunology! Here's to many more years of productive and impactful research!

Kim and yangyang's paper published today in Science!

August 02, 2024

We are super excited that Kim Meerschaert and Yangyang Zhu's paper was published today in Science magazine: https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-2027/full. This was a fruitful collaboration between our lab and Dr. Christophe Benoist's lab...

Congratulations Daping and Kim on your new positions!

January 22, 2024

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...

Lab party in January 2024

January 18, 2024

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!

Paper and Send Off Celebration

November 30, 2023

Lots to celebrate as of recent in the Chiu Lab! We recently did just that! Once again, congratulations to Liwen, for her recent publication. It has recieved so much positive attention and is groundbreaking science on itch and its causation. We also wish...