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2021

OCTOBER 2021: The House of Payne is back at full capacity! Welcome to our newest lab members:

  • Patricia Tsao, MD, PhD: Patricia has a wealth of experience in translational immunology, having served as former operations director at the Human Immunology Core and director of research at the Center for Study & Treatment of Castleman & Inflammatory Lymphadenopathies. Patricia will be working on animal models of autoimmunity and human adoptive cellular immunotherapy
  • Burcin Altun, PhD: Burcin has expertise in novel immunotherapy technologies and will be working on extending the CAAR platform to membranous nephropathy and other B cell-mediated diseases
  • Emma Goodman, IGG PhD candidate: We are thrilled to have Emma back in lab after having completed her rotations. She will be working on the comparative immunology of canine and human cellular immunotherapies
  • Gurtej Kahlon, a postbac student, and Ujjayi Padimagantam, a Penn undergrad working with Christoph and Casey on mechanisms of fate differentiation in engineered T cells

And congratulations to Napatra and Christina for the publication of their report on temporal outcomes of rituximab therapy for pemphigus vulgaris, and Christoph and Damian for their review on the pathophysiology of pemphigus and pemphigoid 

June 2021: Payne lab celebrates the start of summer and our 100% vaccination rate with an outing to Morris Arboretum

  • Welcome to Henry Utset, an incoming Penn MSTP student rotating for the summer
  • Farewell and all the best to Baomei, who will be moving to a Senior Scientist position at Genentech; Ellyssa, who will be starting her MD-PhD at Ohio State in the fall; and Christina, who will do her internship at Pennsylvania Hospital then dermatology residency at Stanford
  • Congratulations to Christoph for his graduation from Dermatology residency, promotion to Clinical Instructor, receipt of a Derm Foundation Career Development Award, and perfect score on his K08. With past as prelude, we expect great things from his future scientific discoveries!
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