8 September 2025

A roadtrip to Rochester NY for the 2025 Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society Annual Meeting where we presented 3 posters on formaldehyde biology.

29 August 2025

Emma Kosmeder has officially joined the Wang lab to conduct her PhD. We celebrated by a Coating Ceremony organized by the vet school. Welcome Emma!

21 August 2025

The Wang lab has secured $2.07 million funding from the NIGMS MIRA R35 award. This award will ensure the stability of our lab in the coming years and propel our research upwards and forwards!

21 August 2025

Nicholas Cheng and Brandon James both passed their A exams (PhD candidacy exam) with flying colors. Our lab is blessed to have these two wonderful and dedicated PhD students.

18 August 2025

Check out this new review written by Chris Mellor, Elisabeth Larson and Meng Wang on the mechanisms of genome instability arising from folate deficiency published in the Journal of Cell Biology.

13 June 2025

Brandon and Meng represent the Wang lab at the European Hematology Association 2025 Congress in Milan, Italy. Great to catch up with European colleagues and present our latest work.

01 June 2025

Fantastic meeting to hear the pioneers in the field and a great opportunity to showcase the latest work from our lab. Amazing running routes with close encounters with horseshoe crabs!

23 May 2025

Saeideh Azad, our undergraduate researcher graduated today from Cornell University. Many congratulations and thank you Saeideh for all your hardwork. Saeideh will be staying on in our lab this coming year as a research assistant before applying to grad school.

9 May 2025

Jessie Ye successfully completed her Honor Thesis research in our lab and will be graduating this year from Cornell University. Jessie will pursue her next career goal in applying to medical school! We wish her all the best!

27 April 2025

Attended the AACR 2025 meeting in Chicago. It was a pleasure to meet colleagues, trainees, my funders (AACR, FCF, St. Baldrick’s) and make many new connections.

09 April 2025

We are celebrating Monika Singh’s success at securing a PhD position at University of Rochester starting this Fall 2025!

18 March 2025

Hosted by Dr. Jannell Bazurto, an expert on methylotrophic bacteria. Lots of formaldehyde biology to learn from each other when comparing microbial versus mammalian formaldehyde biology.

28 February 2025

An absolute delight to speak at the Clinical Research Scholar Seminar at The Rockefeller University, hosted by Dr. Agata Smogorzewska.

18 February 2025

We have been awarded the 2025 Multidisciplinary Seed Grants in Immunology from Cornell Center for Immunology with Dr. Sarah Caddy, to study the impact of formaldehyde on viral infection outcomes. Very excited to take our research in a novel direction!

18 November 2024

We have been awarded the 2024 Fanconi Cancer Foundation-AACR NextGen Grant for Transformative Cancer Research to fund our work over the next 3 years in understanding the origins of genotoxic aldehydes in Fanconi anemia. Thank you to FCF and AACR!

8 November 2024

Our postdoc Dr. Chris Mellor has been awarded the 2025 Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics Scholar Award! And he ran the Washington Marathon as well!

5 November 2024

Excited to receive a seed grant from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement to develop our collaboration with Cayuga Medical Center to improve access of local cancer patients to participate in cancer research.

23 August 2024

We celebrate Brandon James joining our lab as a graduate student with an official lab coating ceremony at Cornell CVM.

12 August 2024

Our latest toy is the Cytek Aurora CS flow cytometer sorter. Hugely expands our experimental capabilities. Our graduate student Brandon completes his 1st experiment on this shiny instrument!

24 July 2024

We have been awarded a Scholar Award from St Baldrick’s Foundation, generously supported by RowOn 4 A Cure. This award will fund our research into finding DNA damage based therapies in childhood leukemia.

3 June 2024

After waiting over a year for lab renovations to complete, we have finally moved to our new space in Kinzelberg Hall.

10 May 2024

Nick Cheng, our 1st year graduate student completes the first succssful experiment on our mass spec after many months of method optimization and troubleshooting! (We did not drink next to the mass spec, that’s crazy!)

15 March 2024

We are delighted to host Dr. Ashley Kamimae-Lanning, senior postdoc from my postdoc lab under Dr. KJ Patel. Excited to hear Ashley’s almost completed work on fetal hematopoiesis!

1 March 2024

We celebrate the one year anniversary since establishing our lab. We’ve made tremendous progress, including some lab mugs to aid the coffee consumption.

23 February 2024

Warmly welcomed at the University of Kansas Medical Center to talk about our research, hosted by Dr. Ryan Barnes.

20 February 2024

After 12 months of planning and renovation, our mass spectrometer has finally been installed! We are thankful to Cornell University and Sciex for all their support, and excited to take our research into a new dimension.

26 January 2024

We are delighted to be awarded the Cornell University Adam and Rachel Border Grant for Cancer Research to study DNA damage in acute myeloid leukemia.

11 December 2023

Congratulations to our undergraduate researcher Jessie Ye for being awarded the Ann S. and Robert R. Morley Student Research Fund for her research in our lab. Well done Jessie!

1 December 2023

We have been awarded the Cornell University Multi-investigator Cross Campus Grant to collaborate with Dr. John Blenis at Dr. Guillermo Burgos-Barragan at Weill Cornell Medicine Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center.

29 November 2023

A very productive visit to our new collaborators at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, hosted by Dr. Lindsey Romick and Dr. Stella Davies.

20 November 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Chris Mellor for being awarded the Cornell Institute of Biotechnology Seed Grant to play with latest methods and tools in flow cytometry and next generation sequencing. Well done Chris!

29 September 2023

Wang lab introduced at Fanconi Anemia Research Fund Annual Symposium 2023 in Vancouver. What a fantastic community of scientists, physicians, patients and family!

17 September 2023

Not at all encouraging living in the lab or anything….

15 September 2023

Thank you to Dr. Jonathan Stamler at Case Western for sharing his mice for our research. Imported successfully and first litter born at Cornell!

3 July 2023

We warmly welcome Karim Wehbe to the Wang lab as our research assistant. Karim joins us from Syracuse University, where he majored in biological sciences.

21 June 2023

Dr. Wang’s paper out in Molecular Cell showing DNA damage from aldehydes can cause accelerated aging in blood stem cells through activation of p53 DNA damage response. Now it’s really important to identify the metabolic origins of these aldehydes!

2 June 2023

Cornell celebrates the 25th anniversary of its Replication, Repair and Recombination (R3) Group with a fantastic symposium. A privilege to attend and talk about our work. Can you spot us?

28 May 2023

We welcome Jessie Ye, sophomore undergraduate student in Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Jessie will work in our lab as our summer student.

24 May 2023

A great day of listening to all the exciting science going on in our Division. Yes, we got designer mugs to commemorate the day as well!

18 May 2023

A pleasure to be invited to present in the Department of Biomedical Sciences seminar series at Cornell University.

Title: Genotoxic aldehydes in aging and cancer.

10 May 2023

After many hours of careful research, here it is, the Breville Nespresso Creatista Plus. Much coffee will be consumed to keep the Wang Lab fuelled.

1 May 2023

We welcome Dr Chris Mellor to the lab as our first post-doc! Chris completed his PhD with Julian Sale in DNA repair at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

24 April 2023

New BSL2 cabinets finally installed in our tissue culture room. That familiar hum as we power up the cabinets, so comforting.

20 April 2023

Making competent E. coli was the first bit of molecular biology I ever did as a student. Feels like a rite-of-passage for our new lab to start by making chemically competent E. coli. UPDATE: it worked!

1 April 2023

Buy buy buy! Now we have to find space for all these!

1 March 2023

Warmly welcomed at Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University. Brought a few home comforts including a lovely parting gift from KJ Patel’s lab. Now for the real work, which espresso machine for the office?