Lab News

2024 Goodbyes

This year we said goodbye to Ananya and Ashley

Ananya is going to University of Wisconsin Madison to pursue a PhD and Ashley headed to Case Western for a Master’s degree.

2022 Goodbyes

This year we said goodbye to OG lab members Haley and Ram.

Ram is headed to Midwestern University to study medicine and Haley is off to University of Chicago for graduate school. We are so proud of them, but they will be sorely missed!

June, 2021 - our FIrst R01 has been funded!

Our project “Inhibition of lentiviral nuclear import pathways by Mx2” is officially funded by the NIH/NIAID

This is also our first lab photo and first picnic in Arsenal Park with our colleagues in the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis - the Silva Lab and the DePas Lab

October, 2020 - melissa is named a gilead sciences research scholar in HIV

The Gilead Scholars Program supports junior faculty conducting basic or clinical research on HIV-1

Learn more about the Gilead Scholars Award here

December, 2019 - melissa receives A pilot award from the RK Mellon institute for pediatric research

This was the inaugural award from this program and provides support for two years for our project titled, Genetic basis for interferon-gamma-independent antiviral antibody production

Learn more about the RK Mellon Institute for Pediatric Research here

JANUARY 14, 2019 -KANE Lab LAunches!

The lab officially opens... We’re very excited to get started and figure out where everything is around here.