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Congratulations to Jia Le Lee and Zhangxin Zhao, who have completed their training with us! Jia Le brought deep curiosity to our germinal center and B cell work, and Zhangxin built interpretable machine learning models for multi-omics and cancer prognosis. We are proud of all they accomplished and excited for what comes next. Thank you both, you will be missed!

We are thrilled to welcome three new members to the Jiang Lab! Thu Pham joins us as a postdoctoral fellow, bringing spatial multi-omics to neurodegeneration in ALS and dystonia. Helen Huang joins as a joint postdoctoral fellow with Venu Pillarisetty at the University of Washington, building interpretable virtual tumor models of pancreatic cancer. Yuemeng Li joins as a Research Assistant. Welcome, all!

Big congratulations to Stephanie Yiu, selected for an oral presentation and a travel award at Frontiers in Cancer Science 2026 in Singapore, and chosen for the James P. Allison Institute NextGen Colloquium 2026 in Houston!

After terrific work on spatial virology and pathology, Qi Yang has moved on to Legend Biotech to advance cell therapies. We also say a warm farewell to visiting masters student Clara Kummerer, whose phenomenal work advanced our studies of viral infections in non-human primate models. Thank you both, and we will miss you!

Thrilled to welcome two new postdocs: Trinh Phan-Canh, joining us from Vietnam, and Yuzhou Chang, a joint postdoc with Qin Ma at Ohio State who has made the move to Boston to work with us. Big congratulations to Trinh as well, recognized with two awards for his outstanding doctoral research!

Grateful to the National Institute on Aging for a new R21, spearheaded by Stephanie Yiu, to build a spatial atlas of how our lymph nodes and tonsils change with age.

A big thank-you to our 2026 summer interns, Harvard medical student Samantha Sack, Rice bioengineering undergrad Zihan Yang, and Indiana University undergrad Chris Yu, for a summer of wonderful science with us!

Yao Yu Yeo received his PhD in Virology at Harvard Commencement. We are proud of all he accomplished in the lab, and grateful for his years with us. Congratulations, Dr. Yeo!

Congratulations to Stephanie Yiu and our collaborators Ankit Basak and Carolina Ortiz Cordero, whose GlycoScope image won a 2026 Koch Institute Image Award. It is a second win in a row for Stephanie and Ankit, after their 2025 image of gum disease tissue with Stacy Cho took the People’s Choice prize.

Sizun has been promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is grateful to everyone in the lab, past and present, whose work this promotion reflects.

Congratulations to Yao Yu Yeo, who successfully defended his PhD in the Harvard Program in Virology. His dissertation used spatial multi-omics to show how viruses remodel the tumor microenvironment in lymphoma. Thank you to his committee, James DeCaprio (chair), Catherine Wu, Evan Newell and Shira Weingarten-Gabbay.

Congratulations to Khyati Meghani for leading our new grant from the National Leiomyosarcoma Foundation, which has just been funded.

Congratulations to Hendrik Michel, whose project on sex differences in B cell class switching won a Foundation for Women’s Wellness award. Hendrik led the grant himself.

Congratulations to Rongting Huang, our joint postdoc with Brooke Howitt at Stanford, on a Cancer Research Institute Immuno-Informatics Fellowship. She will use spatial omics and informatics to find new angles for immunotherapy in gynecologic cancers.

Sizun is honored to be named a 2024 Next Generation Award recipient at the Broad Institute. We are grateful to the Broad for supporting the work of our lab.

Congratulations to Stephanie Yiu on being named a 2024 Life Sciences Research Foundation fellow. Her fellowship supports her spatial studies of follicular lymphoma.

Congratulations to Jia Le Lee on being named a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow, with her fellowship research placement here in our lab. We are thrilled to have her pushing spatial profiling of colorectal cancer with us.

We are thrilled to be funded through the Bridge Project of the Koch Institute and the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, with Alex Shalek and Laura Kiessling. Together we will build glycan-centric spatial tools to study follicular lymphoma.

Excited to be part of a new NIH P01 program led by Dan Barouch on broadly neutralizing antibodies and therapeutic vaccination for HIV. We join the multi-omics core with Alex Shalek and the data analysis core with Qin Ma.

Super awesome to hear the long awaited official news that the Jiang lab will be funded by the New Innovators Award (DP2) to develop new spatial-omics technologies to understand host-viral interactions!

Another brave and inquisitive young investigator joins the team! Looking forward to learning more about the science behind good food!

Looking forward to starting work with Drs. David Einstein and Steve Balk to understand orchestrated immune responses in prostate cancer.

Thrilled that the Jiang lab will be supported by the Gilead Research Scholars Program to address basic questions on CAR-Ts using our technologies!

So glad to have Huaying Qiu and Precious Cramer physically start with us this week! Welcome to Boston!

We welcome Guanrui Liao, a visiting graduate student and MD from Sun Yat Sen University in China.