News
May 2026 Congratulations to Nikolai Przybylski and Qinghe Zeng for the acceptance of the book chapter “Manufacturing as biology: how T-cell processing shapes therapeutic outcomes” in Advances in Pharmacology series established in 1962 (Elsevier). Truly fantastic work!
March 2026 Lab outing for mini-golf!
January 2026 Congratulations to Eliot Raynor for receiving the SKCCC Super STAR Program fellowship!
November 2025 We are excited to receive the Margaret Q. Landenberger Foundation grant to support our work on ex vivo expansion and reprogramming of BCMA-CAR T cells for multiple myeloma!
December 2025 Huang lab holiday party, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
October 2025 Congratulations to us receiving the Pennsylvania CURE grant for computational analysis of CAR-T cell transcriptomic programs to enhance scalable and equitable cell manufacturing! This work is enabled by a joint effort with the Baetica laboratory at Drexel Mechanical Engineering Department.
August 2025 Warm welcome Maggie Johnson to join the PhD program, and congratulations to her on receiving the GAANN fellowship!
July 2025 Our first manuscript is now on bioRxiv (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.17.665438v1), congratulations to Zen, Landon, and the teams between Drexel and UCSF!
July 2025 Warm welcome Dennis Deng to join us for postdoc research!
March 2025 Lab dinner to celebrate Nikolai’s completion of Co-op research!
March 2025 Congratulations to us for receiving the Thomas Jefferson University – SKCCC cancer center pilot award for prostate cancer immune modulation (collaboration with the Felix Kim lab)
January 2025 Congratulations to us for receiving the Thomas Jefferson University – SKCC cancer center seed award for a universal CAR targeting approach for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (collaboration with the Sara Meyer lab)
January 2025 Warm welcome Landon Flemming for starting his Co-op research!
November 2024 We are excited to receive the Drexel-Coulter foundation award to develop translational approach using functional biomaterials for autologous & allogeneic CAR-T cell manufacturing!
November 2024 We are excited to receive the Drexel-Coulter foundation award to develop translational approach using functional biomaterials for autologous & allogeneic CAR-T cell manufacturing!
September 2024 Dr. Huang receives a Carl June Travel Award at the 9th CAR-TAR Summit!
September 2024 Warm welcome Binlong Chen for starting his PhD study!
July 2024 Warm welcome to Nikolai Przybylski joining us for summer and Co-op research!
April 2024 Dr. Huang gives a seminar at NCI Cancer Moonshot Series (https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/moonshot-cancer-initiative/seminar-series), talking about recent updates on precision T cell modulation!
April 2024 Warm welcome to new undergraduate interns Riana, Eshel, and Landon!
December 2023 Our collaboration with the Baetica Lab is awarded for the Carleone seed fund by Drexel!
December 2023 Congratulations to our Summer Intern Omkar Katkade for his admission into Johns Hopkins University! Best wishes to your new journey!
November 2023 Welcome Jaitri joining us as an undergraduate researcher!
Thanksgiving 2023 We have a fun party with our collaborator the Baetica Lab! Thank you folks for the hard work!
November 2023 Our lab is finally organized, and we are ready to start exciting experiments!
September 2023 Welcome Yanshan Tao to start her PhD study in our lab!
August 2023 Welcome Omkar Katkade as a summer intern to learn T cell biology and single cell sequencing analysis!
July 2023 Warmly welcome Qinghe Zeng as the first PhD student in Biomedical Science to join!
July 2023 The Huang lab officially starts! We are excited to advancing the understanding and technological basis for therapeutic T cells!
June 2023 Dr. Huang was awarded an honorable mention for the abstract titled “Control and enhance CAR-T cells with precisely functionalized biomaterials” in Cellicon Valley ’23: The Future of Cell and Gene Therapies (https://www.med.upenn.edu/cellicon23/agenda-friday.html).
June 2023 Dr. Huang did his last T cell experiment at UCSF Cell Design Institute (https://www.celldesigninstitute.org/)
