Mikkola Lab News

December 2024

  • Paul Mack successfully presented a poster at the 2024 Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology (MCDB) Annual Retreat. Good job on presenting “Cellular and Molecular Underpinnings of Leukemia Predisposition in Trisomy 21 across Development”

November 2024

  • Dr. Stephanie Frenz-Wissener has been awarded the Walter Benjamin Fellowship by the German Research Foundation. Congrats Stephi!!

October 2024

  • Congratulations to Dr. Diana Dou on a new appointment as an Assistant Professor at Duke University
  • Welcome Dr. Stephanie Frenz-Wissener, Pediatric Hematology and Bone Marrow Organoid expert, to the lab!!!

September 2024

  • Dr. Yue Wang has been awarded the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Postdoctoral Award. Congrats Yue!!
  • Dr. Yuanyuan Wang has been awarded the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Postdoctoral Award. Congrats Yuanyuan!

July 2024

  • Paul Mack has been awarded the T32 Fellowship. Congrats Paul!!

June 2024

  • Dr. Júlia Aguadé-Gorgorió has been awarded the first Arnold J Berk Research Achievement Award! Congratulations Julia!!
  • “MYCT1 controls environmental sensing in human haematopoietic stem cells” published in Nature. Congrats to Júlia and the co-authors on a great job!! UCLA Newsroom

May 2024

  • Dr. Meng-Wei Ko won the trainee Poster Award at the 2024 UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Annual Retreat. Good job on presenting “Improving human PSC-HSC functional maturation”

April 2024

  • Welcome Dr. Yuanyuan Wang, Environmental Science expert, to the lab!!!!

January 2024

  • Congratulations to Dr. Vincenzo Calvanese on a new appointment as a Group Leader at Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

October 2023

  • Congratulations Dr. Anastastia Vavilina-Halstead on your thesis defense!

September 2023

  • Dr. Meng-Wei Ko has been awarded the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Postdoctoral Award. Congrats Meng-Wei!
  • Welcome Ilse Kaaja, Visiting Scholar from University of Helsinki, Finland, to the lab!!!!
  • Welcome Paul Mack as a graduate student to the lab!
  • Welcome Dr. Yue Wang, the mouse placenta expert, to the lab!!!

May 2023

  • Welcome Dr. Meng-Wei Ko, NK cell and stem cell enthusiast, to the lab!!!

April 2022

  • “Mapping human haematopoietic stem cells from haemogenic endothelium to birth” published in Nature. Congrats to Vinny, Sandra and Feiyang and the co-authors on a great job!! UCLA Newsroom

March 2016

  • Dr. Fides Lay has been awarded the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Basic Cancer Research Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congrats Fides!

February 2016

  • Dr. Fides Lay has been awarded the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Fellowship. Congrats Fides!

  • Dr. Fides Lay officially begins her postdoctoral training in the Mikkola lab. She completed her PhD in the lab of Dr. Peter Jones at USC where she studied the epigenetic regulation of cancer. Welcome Fides!

January 2016

  • Dr. Fides Lay has been awarded the UCLA Institute of Quantitative & Computational Biosciences Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. Congrats Fides!

December 2015

  • Diana Dou received the Poster Award at the 2015 UCLA MCDB Retreat. Congrats Diana!

September 2015

  • Diana Dou receives 1st place honors for the ISEH New Investigator Dirk van Bekkum Graduate Student award at the 44th Annual International Society of Experimental Hematology in Kyoto, Japan. Congrats Diana!

June 2015

  • Wenyun Wang and Dan Duan have been awarded the UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship. Good luck to Wenyuan and Dan with your doctoral dissertations!

  • Christiana Yuan has been awarded the UCLA Vascular Biology Training Grant. Congrats Chris!

  • Andrew Nguyen has been awarded the UCLA Undergraduate Research Scholars Program Award. Congrats Andrew!

  • Vincenzo Calvanese has been awarded the Broad Stem Cell Research Center Stem Cell Training Grant. Congrats Vincenzo!

  • Timothy Bolan has been awarded the UCLA Biomedical Research Summer Scholarship. Congrats Tim!

May 2015

  • Edo Israely has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association. Congrats Edo!

  • Wenyuan Wang received 1st place for the best poster at the UCLA, USC, and UCSF Tri-institutional Stem Cell Retreat. Great job Wenyuan!

April 2015

  • Wenyuan Wang has been awarded the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute Dissertation Year Award. Congratulations Wenyan!

  • Andrew Nguyen has been named a 2015 Honorable Barry Goldwater Scholar. Congrats Andrew!

January 2015

  • Andrew Nguyen has been named the Assistant Managing Editor of Research for the UCLA Undergraduate Science Journal. Congrats Andrew!

June 2014

  • Wenyuan Wang is 1 of 5 predoctoral scholars to receive the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine & Broad Stem Cell Research Center Pre-doctoral Training Grant. Congrats Wenyuan!

May 2014

  • Wenyuan Wang and her team received 1st place at the 2014 UCLA Business of Science Center Annual Venture Competition.

  • Program Description: In partnership with the Office of Intellectual Property, UCLA Business of Science Center holds an annual venture competition, where graduate students form teams to evaluate the commercial potential of emerging UCLA technologies. In 2014, Wenyuan and her team won the 1st Place and a $30,000 non-dilutive funding with their business plan for the NAC technology derived from Dr. Jewett’s lab.

April 2014

  • Andrew Nguyen is named 1 of 2 UCLA Beckman Scholars from the national Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Congrats Andrew!

March 2014

January 2014

  • Diana Dou received the Poster Award at the 2014 UCLA Molecular Biology Institute Retreat. Congrats Diana!

  • Andrew Nguyen has been accepted into the UCLA Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program. Congrats Andrew!

May 2013

  • Andrew Nguyen has been awarded the Honors Programs Irving and Jean Stone Research Award. Congrats Andrew!

  • Edo Israely is 1 of 4 Postdoctoral trainees to have been awarded the Postdoctoral Training Grant from the UCLA Tumor Cell Biology Training Program. Congrats Edo!

March 2013

  • Diana Dou has been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Fellowship. Congrats Diana!

June 2013

  • Wenyuan Wang has been awarded the Broad Stem Cell Research Center and California Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s Pre-doctoral Training Grant. Congrats Wenyuan!

January 2013

  • Vincenzo Calvanese has been granted the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Special Fellowship Award. Congrats Vincenzo!

December 2012

  • Wenyuan Wang has been awarded the Abstract Award at the 54th Annual American Society of Hematology Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Congrats Wenyuan!

June 2012

  • Diana Dou has been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award GM007185 from the UCLA Cell & Molecular Biology Training Program. Congrats Diana!

June 2011

  • Wenyuan Wang has been awarded the Philip Whitecome Pre-doctoral Training Grant. Congrats Wenyuan!