Weeraratna Lab

12/07/2018

Burying the hatchet with this motley crew!!

08/14/2017

A huge congrats to Abi in my lab for her first author paper in Cancer Research! Well done, Abi! And thanks to all our collaborators, and the awesome lab team :)

08/12/2017

As of this week the Weeraratna lab has members from every continent. Yes, even Antarctica!!

07/31/2017

So proud of my super Staff Scientist Marie Webster for winning the Thomas B. Fitzpatrick Award for the best paper in our flagship melanoma journal during the past 3 years!!! Way to go, Marie- *we* knew pseudosenescence was important!!!

04/21/2017

Today is a big day for the Weeraratna lab our first Ph.D. student defended today. She's also the first student in the Wistar/Sciences Cancer Biology program to graduate, so it's a double first for us! Congrats Aman! Later today, grad student #2 will rock her prelims (I just know it!)-good luck, Abi!! I am one proud mamajama right now.

07/13/2016

So many wonderful things happening in our little lab these days :) wedding number 2 is coming up soon! Surprise shower for Vito and Gretchen!

Wedding shower for our dear Gretchen 💐🍰🍩🍷

06/22/2016

We are delighted to share in the joy of our graduate student Abi (Bibatou Ndoye), and her new husband Nikos as they embark on their new life together. Here they are in their gorgeous Senegalese wedding outfits. Congrats, Abi and Nikos!!

05/23/2016

Today was an amazing day at the Wistar Melanoma Awareness Day at the Phillies game. I'm so proud of my lab who all volunteered to be there and work hard to make sure everyone got suncreen, and learned a little something about the Wistar and about melanoma. And it was a special treat to have my new friend T.J. Sharpe there to throw out the first pitch, and Allen Starnes to debut his invention, these amazing new sunscreen dispensers: http://www.the-sunshield.com/ So happy to be a part of this amazing team, and the awesome The Wistar Institute.

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05/01/2016

Well, well, well. Look at that. It's May again. And while it's cold and dreary outside, it's Melanoma Awareness Month. So prepare for your daily onslaught of dire warnings and fun facts- get started here at www.skincancer.org. And for those of you who live in Philly- come out to the May 22nd ball game where Wistar's melanoma research center will be promoting melanoma awareness- you can BOGO tickets here at: https://wistar.org/melanoma-awareness-2016

04/25/2016

A huge congrats to my postdoc Marie Webster on the receipt of a K99 award! SO PROUD OF YOU! Excited to watch you flourish in the melanoma research field:)

04/04/2016

Embargo lifted!! Nature paper is out. Thanks again to my amazing team!!! https://wistar.org/news-and-media/press-releases/aging-impacts-therapeutic-response-melanoma-cells

03/11/2016

http://www.cancerfrontline.org/top-names-in-cancer-call-for-ban-on-tanning-beds/

02/02/2016

Formal acceptance of our Nature manuscript arrived today: "We are delighted to accept your manuscript entitled "sFRP2 in the aged microenvironment drives melanoma metastasis and therapy resistance" for publication in Nature. Thank you for choosing to publish your interesting work with us."
This manuscript was a huge effort and represents the amazing teamwork of my incredible trainees, and the immense support and collaboration of the entire melanoma community. We are so lucky to have such incredible colleagues!

11/24/2015

Congrats to two Weeraratna Lab members- Reeti Behera for winning an SMR travel award, and Amanpreet Kaur for winning a Harry A. Bradburd fellowship! Way to go, ladies!

11/24/2015

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