NEWS FROM THE RUGGERO LAB
June 29, 2020 Welcome to our new junior specialist, Megan Holt!
July 3, 2020 Goodbye to our junior specialist, Elisa Fazzari! Good luck at UCLA!!
June 19, 2020 Farewell to our junior specialist, Martina Rama! You will be missed!
January 16, 2020 Congratulations to Joanna on receiving the 2020 ACS Award!!
January 6, 2020 Welcome back everyone and Happy New Year! Also a warmest welcome to our new postdoc, Peiwei!
December 18, 2019 Goodbye to Crystal Conn and good luck in your new position as Assistant Professor at UPenn!
December 3, 2019 Congratulations to Haojun on receiving the 2020 AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship!
September 30, 2019 Goodbye to Xiaming and congratulations on your new position at Tuojie Biotech Co.Ltd in Shanghai, China!
September 20, 2019 Farewell, Mary! Good luck on your new position at Calico–you will be missed!!
September 4, 2019 Welcome to our newest junior specialist, Harrison Tom!
September 3, 2019 Congratulations to Mary on her recent publication to eLife (https://elifesciences.org/articles/48847)!
August 9, 2019 Goodbye to our summer fellow, Jacob Weiss. Good luck at Pomona College!
July 26, 2019 Farewell to one of our clinical fellows, Craig Forester! Good luck in Colorado!
July 22, 2019 Welcome to our newest junior specialist, Martina Rama! Glad to have you on board!
June 3, 2019 Welcome back to our summer fellow, Jacob Weiss!
June 3, 2019 Farewell, our dearest Emily! Thanks for being an exceptional lab manager – we will miss you! Good luck in grad school!
June 1, 2019 Congratulations Craig on your new position as Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado! You will be missed!
February 28, 2019 Goodbye to our lovely, and amazing, Matti! Thank you for all of your hard work and good luck in grad school! The Ruggero lab will miss you!
February 11, 2019 A big warm welcome to Joanna Kovalski, who joined as our newest postdoc from Stanford! We are excited for all of the great science you will do!
January 9, 2019 Welcome to our newest Staff Research Associate, Jane! Glad to have you on staff!
January 2, 2019 Welcome to our newest post doc, Haojun Yang, who joins us from Johns Hopkins!
December 4, 2018 We are thrilled to congratulate Lisa on being awarded the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Fellowship!
November 20, 2018 Congratulations to Craig on receiving the fantastic ASH Scholar Award! We are excited for all of the amazing science you will do with this opportunity!
October 26, 2018 Goodbye Ying! Thank you for all of the wonderful work you have done with us over the last two years. The lab wishes you the best as you complete your PhD!
September 24, 2017 Welcome to our newest junior specialist, Elisa Fazzari!
July 16, 2018 Congratulations to Hyun Yong on his new position as Senior Associate Scientist at Amgen! The Ruggero Lab will surely miss you, but we are excited for this next step in your flourishing career.
June 11, 2018 A huge welcome to our newest intern Ismail, who is joining us from Istanbul Technical University for the summer! Excited for all the great science you will do!
June 4, 2018 Welcome to our newest postdoc Lisa, who is joining us from Heidelberg University!
May 2, 2018 Congratulations to Hao, Crystal, Yae, and Lin on their recent publication at Science Translational Medicine! Their paper has been highlighted here: http://stm.sciencemag.org/, https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/05/410336/research-finds-achilles-heel-aggressive-prostate-cancer, and https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-achilles-heel-aggressive-prostate-cancer.html. Cheers to great science and many more ground-breaking discoveries to come!
April 2, 2018 A big welcome to our newest rotation student, Jack Stevenson! Jack is a PhD student in the CCB program at UCSF. We look forward to all of the great science you will do!
March 2, 2018 Adieu to Yae Kye! Thanks for being such a wonderful lab manager – the Ruggero Lab will miss you. Good luck on your next step!
January 26, 2018 Hip hip hooray, Hyun Yong was just awarded the prestigious LLS Fellow Award! Three cheers for more amazing science to come! Congratulations, Hyun Yong!
December 30, 2017 Congratulations to Craig on the successful acceptance of his paper to PNAS! What a great way to close out the year!
December 5, 2017 A huge welcome to Lisa, who will be joining us from the University of Heidelberg, as the newest member of the Ruggero Lab! We cannot wait to see the great science you do!
October 2, 2017 Welcome to Gabriel, the newest member of the Ruggero Lab!
September 7, 2017 A huge congratulations to Ton on passing his qualifying exam! Hip hip hooray!
July 7, 2017 Welcome to our newest summer intern, Jacob Weiss!
July 5, 2017 We are so excited to welcome to our new junior specialist, Emily Devericks!
June 26, 2017 A big welcome to Phuong Dihn, who just joined the Ruggero Lab as a mouse technician!
June 15, 2017 Welcome to Francisco Puyol, who joined our lab for the summer as part of the UCSF CURE Research Internship.
May 16, 2017 Congratulations to Hao for receiving the PCF-AUA-SUO Young Investigator Award! A big round of applause for Hao!
April 4, 2017 We are thrilled to congratulate Crystal for being awarded the AACR-Bayer Prostate Cancer Research Fellowship and Hyun Jong for being awarded the AACR-Incyte Corporation Fellowship in Basic Cancer Research!
January 1, 2017 Congratulations, Duygu Kuzuoglu Ozturk, for being awarded the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization Fellowship!
December 22, 2016 An exciting collaborative project between the Ruggero and Evans lab was just published in Clinical Cancer Research, entitled “Non-invasive measurement of mTORC1 signaling with 89Zr-transferrin.”
December 20, 2016 One of our research technicians will be returning to Belgium to continue her graduate studies! Goodbye, Alice, we will miss having you in the lab, but are so excited for you and your graduate school adventures to come
December 5, 2016 Congratulations to Adrian Contreras, who completed his graduate thesis in the UCSF Tetrad program!
November 11, 2016 A big round of applause to Yichen Xu for receiving the Damon Runyon postdoc fellowship!
October 27, 2016 Dr. Ruggero organized the AACR Special Conference on Translation Control and Cancer and gathered worldwide experts to discuss their exciting findings in the field of protein synthesis!
September 10, 2016 We are thrilled to welcome three rotation students to our lab this semester! Welcome Abby Hochman, Johnny Yu and NiaTeerikorpi!
May 15, 2016 We are so excited to have Ton Montoya, BMS graduate student, joining our lab to carry out his graduate studies!
May 3, 2016 Please join us in congratulating Hao Nguyen for receiving the Prostate Cancer Research Fund Young Investigator Award!
April 26, 2016 Dr. Ruggero’s extensive review of translation control, written with Morgan Truitt, was just published in Nature Reviews Cancer!
March 9, 2016 Welcome to our new postdoc in the Ruggero Lab, Hyun Yong Jin!
February 20, 2016 We are thrilled to welcome Yichen Xu as a postdoc in our lab!
February 2, 2016 One of our most senior postdocs, Tom Cunningham, has just completed his training and is beginning a new Assistant Professor position at the University of Cincinnati! Congrats, Tom, we wish you the best of success!
January 1, 2016 Congratulations to Duygu Kuzuoglu Ozturk on receiving the European Molecular Biology Organization Long-Term Fellowship!
December 1, 2015 Welcome to our new postdoc in the Ruggero Lab, Duygu Kuzuoglu Ozturk!
November 17, 2015 Congrats on the publication in Science Signaling to Andrew, Mimi, and Hao! And a special good job to Mimi whose image made the cover for this issue of Science Signaling. Check out our publication page to see the cover and the manuscript.
November 1, 2015 Congratulations to Morgan Truitt, who completed his graduate thesis in the UCSF Biomedical Sciences program, and is beginning his postdoctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute!
August 28, 2015 We have several celebrities in the lab—check out Adrian Contreras, Crystal Conn, and Mary McMahon on labtv!
July 15, 2015 Congratulations to Mimi on her recent acceptance to Drexel University College of Medicine! She will be greatly missed!
July 10, 2015 Mary McMahon was recently awarded the Best Talk award at the Bay Area RNA Club! Congratulations, Mary!
June 24, 2015 Hao Nguyen, was just awarded the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program Physician Research Training Award! Congratulations, Hao!
June 12, 2015 A huge round of applause to Craig Stumpf for his new appointment as Research Scientist at eFFECTOR Therapeutics. Congratulations, Craig!
May 7, 2015 Please join us in congratulating Ozlem Aksoy for being awarded the prestigious Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer Fellowship!!
April 8, 2015 Congratulations to Morgan, Crystal and Xiaming for their great manuscript on eIF4E that was just accepted for publication at Cell!
March 14, 2015 Congratulations to the Ruggero Lab for the success at the Helen Diller Cancer Center Retreat, where Adrian won the prize for best poster, and Crystal was awarded the best postdoc presentation!
March 6, 2015 Please join us in a round of applause for our clinical fellow Hao Nguyen who was just awarded the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program Physician Training Award!
February 19, 2015 We are thrilled to announce that our clinical fellow Craig Forester has just received the prestigious Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Fellow Award!
December 9, 2014 Welcome to George Perdrizet, the newest member of the Ruggero Lab, and congratulations on receiving the T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship!
November 19, 2014 Congratulations, Crystal, for being awarded the American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship!
September 5, 2014 Congratulations to Andrew for recently accepting a faculty position in the Division of Human Biology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA! His new lab officially opened in October 2014 ([email protected])
July 2, 2014 Great work, Mary, for receiving the Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research Award!
May 22, 2014 Take a look at our recent publication in Cell! Congrats, Tom! Also, check out our accompanying Cell Paper Flick video abstract, showcasing our recent discovery of the novel link between protein synthesis and metabolism! Join us in celebrating Cristian’s new faculty position at the Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University in Sweden! He will initiate his own lab as a Group Leader in January 2014, woo!!
November 21, 2013 Check out our new publication in Molecular Cell! Congrats Craig and Melissa!
June 11, 2013 Congratulations to Andrew for being a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund 2013 Career Awards for Medical Scientists!!
May 30, 2013 Hey, check out our new publication in Cell Reports! Congrats to Cristian, Mary and Adrian!
April 10, 2013 Congratulations to Andrew on his new K08 Award!
February 9, 2013 Check out our new publication in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology! Congratulations, Cristian!
February 1, 2013 Have a look into our exciting, new publication in Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology!
January 17, 2013 Enjoy reading up on our recent discoveries published in Nature! Hooray, Morgan! And don’t miss out on our new insights into the translational implications in autism outlined in this Nature publication!
December 3, 2012 See what all the buzz is about… Check out our new publication in the Journal of Clinical Investigation! Congratulations, Tom!
November 9, 2012 Check out our undergoing novel research in this publication in Science! Good work, Morgan!