Announcements
April 24, 2024
Congrats to Ximin, Laurence, and Amy for the publication in Nature Metabolism!
April 12, 2024
Congrats to Meng-Yin, Chris, Ryan, and team for the publication in Journal of Experimental Medicine!
April 1, 2024
Congrats to Sohan for winning the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship!
January 16, 2024
Congrats to Melanie, Mobina, and Caitlin on their publication in Journal of Experimental Medicine!
November 16, 2023
Congrats to Amy and Sohan on their publication in Current Opinion in Biotechnology!
September 22, 2023
Congrats to Ryan on winning the Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics Department Retreat Poster Award!
September 15, 2023
Congrats to Ryan on winning the Molecular Biology Institute Retreat Poster Award!
March 17, 2023
Congrats to Sohan for being selected for the NIH Summer Internship Program!
December 15, 2022
Congrats to Justin and Tora on their review article in Clinical Cancer Research!
November 23, 2022
Congrats to our whole clinical team on the publication in Cancer Discovery!
November 20, 2022
Congrats to Ximin and Laurence on their publication in Cancer Immunology Research!
June 14, 2022
Congrats to Tora on his publication in Annual Review of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering!
June 6, 2022
Congrats to Andrew for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Hooray, Dr. Hou!
May 27, 2022
Congrats to Ryan for receiving the Whitcome Pre-doctoral Fellowship!
May 24, 2022
Congrats to Laurence for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Hooray, Dr. Chen!
April 4, 2022
Congrats to Tora for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Well done!
January 4, 2022
Congrats to Ryan on his publication in Cancer Immunology Research!
May 10, 2021
Congrats to Andrew and Laurence on their publication in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery!
March 30, 2021
Congrats to Justin for receiving the NIH Tumor Immunology Training Grant!
March 27, 2021
Congrats to Vinya for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Well done!
September 22, 2020
Congrats to Ximin for successfully defending her PhD thesis!
July 30, 2020
Congrats to Amy and Justin on their review article in Cancer Cell!
June 9, 2020
Congrats to Andrew for winning the Schering Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research AND a UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship!
May 8, 2020
Congrats to Eugenia and Chris N. for their publication in Nature Communications!
February 26, 2020
Congrats to Andrew and ZeNan for their publication in Nature Protocols!
February 1, 2020
Chen Lab receives CIRM TRAN1 Award
June 28, 2019
Congrats to Ximin for winning the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Poster Prize at ImmunologyLA!
June 21, 2019
Yvonne receives the CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR Award
May 2, 2019
Congrats to ZeNan for winning the Outstanding Poster Award at the 2019 ASGCT Annual Meeting!
April 5, 2019
Congrats to Meng-Yin for successfully defending her PhD Thesis!
February 28, 2019
Yvonne receives the Mark Foundation Emerging Leaders Award
February 26, 2019
Congrats to Laurence for his publication in Current Opinion in Biotechnology!
December 12, 2018
Congrats to Patrick for successfully defending his PhD Thesis!
August 22, 2018
Congrats to Eugenia for successfully defending her PhD Thesis!
July 28, 2018
Congrats to Andrew and ZeNan for their publication in Bioengineering and Translational Medicine!
June 15, 2018
Congrats to Patrick for winning the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Graduate Student Oral Presentation Prize at ImmunologyLA!
June 15, 2018
Congrats to Eugenia for winning the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Poster Prize at ImmunologyLA!
June 14, 2018
Congrats to Meng-Yin for winning the Pearl Cohen Poster Prize at the UCLA Biomedical & Life Science Innovation Day!
June 8, 2018
Eugenia's CD19/CD20 OR-gate CAR paper is highlighted in 'The Best of AACR Journals' as one of the most-cited articles published in 2016. Congrats!
March 3, 2018
Yvonne receives the Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award.
January 29, 2018
Congrats to ZeNan and Mickey for their publication in Nature Chemical Biology!
January 2, 2018
(Belated) Congratulations to Eugenia for receiving a Dissertation Year Fellowship!
January 2, 2018
We welcome PhD student Chris Nam to the group!
October 20, 2017
Congrats to Eugenia for her publication in Chemical Engineering Progress!
September 25, 2017
We welcome rotation student Luke Riggan to the group!
September 11, 2017
We welcome new lab members Dr. Cristian Gruppi and Stanley Gosliner to the group!
August 30, 2017
We welcome rotation student Chris Nam to the group!
August 9, 2017
We welcome PhD student Dr. Tasha Lin (MD) to the group!
July 17, 2017
We welcome project scientist Dr. Christopher Walthers to the group!
June 16, 2017
Congrats to Patrick for his publication in Current Opinions in Chemical Biology!
June 14, 2017
Congrats to Andrew for being selected for the NIH Biotechnology Training Fellowship!
May 22, 2017
Congrats to Patrick for his publication in ACS Synthetic Biology!
May 19, 2017
Congrats to Patrick for winning the Best Presentation Award at the inaugural UCLA Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering 4th-Year Symposium!
April 14, 2017
Congrats to ZeNan for his publication in Trends in Molecular Medicine!
April 10, 2017
Congrats to ZeNan for successfully defending his PhD Thesis! Hooray, Dr. Chang!
Jan 31, 2017
Congrats to ZeNan for winning the Ray Owen Poster Award at the Midwinter Conference for Immunologists at Asilomar!
Aug 15, 2016
We welcome new PhD student Andrew Hou to the group!
Aug 1, 2016
We welcome new PhD student Laurence Chen to the group!
Jun 11, 2016
Congrats to Mickey for receiving his MS in Bioengineering and starting his new career in industry!
Apr 8, 2016
Congrats to Eugenia for her publication in Cancer Immunology Research!
Feb 17, 2016
Yvonne receives the NSF CAREER Award
Feb 17, 2016
Congrats Chris for his publication in ACS Synthetic Biology!
Jan 8, 2016
Yvonne receives the ACGT 2015 Young Investigator Award in Cell and Gene Therapy for Cancer
June 16, 2015
Congrats Patrick for being selected for the NIH Biotechnology Training Fellowship!
June 1, 2015
Yvonne receives the Hellman Fellowship
June 9, 2015
Congrats Haixing for winning the 2015 Vice Provost's Prize for Best Research Article in the UCLA Undergraduate Science Journal!
Feb 3, 2015
Congrats Eugenia for getting the Best in Verbal Presentation prize at the 2015 UCLA Tech Forum!