Lab News

2025/04/09
Our lab alum, Carina Shiau, wins the 2025 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship!

2025/03/28
Congratulations to Jeanna for winning the best poster award at the GLI Cancer Workshop!

2024/11/04
Congratulations to Dr. Hwang for receiving the 2024 Sir William Osler Young Investigator Award!

2024/10/21
Congratulations to Jeanna and Dr. Hwang on receiving the NETRF Investigator Award ($270,000)!

2024/10/01
Our Nature Genetics paper (Shiau, Cao et al. 2024) is featured in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology!

2024/09/30
Congratulations to Peter for winning a Sky Foundation grant!

2024/09/12
Congratulations to Dennis and Dr. Hwang for winning the 2024 Sanofi iOnc Award ($250,000)!

2024/08/29
Two papers have been accepted in the lab and will appear in Nature Genetics (Sep 2024) and Cancer Cell (Oct 2024). Please keep an eye out for these publications!

2024/08/29
The lab was awarded a US-Israel Binational Science Foundation grant in collaboration with Dr. Oren Parnas at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem!

2024/07/18
Congratulations to the Hwang Lab for receiving the 2024 Krantz Quantum Award!

2024/07/11
Congratulations to Ella for winning the HHMI Gilliam Fellowship!

2024/05/29
Congratulations to Ismael for winning the 2024 ASCO Young Investigator Award!

2024/04/03
Congratulations to Ella for passing her doctoral qualifying exams! The lab has now passed all three graduate students!

2024/02/28
Congratulations to Jeanna for passing her doctoral qualifying exams!

2024/02/14
Congratulations to our wundergrad, Deniz, for getting the AACR Undergraduate Scholar Award!

2024/01/25
Congratulations to Dennis for passing his doctoral qualifying exams!

2023/12/21
The Hwang Lab won the “Classic Category” for the Gingerbread House Contest held by MGH!

2023/11/03
The Hwang Lab was featured in GEN magazine for November 2023 with a Q&A with Dr. William Hwang

2023/09/28
Lab members presented at the Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research Annual Retreat and AACR Pancreatic Cancer Conference. Jeanna Qiu won 2nd place poster!

2023/09/08
An enjoyable weekend in Belmont, NH for our second annual retreat!

2023/05/24
Congratulations to the Hwang Lab for receiving the 2023 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Career Development Award!

2023/05/10
Congratulations to Dr. Hwang for being selected as a recipient of the 40 Under 40 in Cancer Award!

2023/04/25
Jimmy successfully defended his thesis with the Harvard BBS PhD program. We are so proud of you, Dr. Guo!

2023/04/15
The Hwang Lab gave amazing posters and talks at the AACR Annual Meeting in Orlando this weekend!

2023/03/16
The Hwang lab won a 2023 Koch Institute Image Award as well as one of the two “People’s Choice Awards”!

2023/02/20
Congratulations to Jimmy for receiving the AACR Scholar-in-Training Award!

2023/01/27
Congratulations to Jimmy for getting his boxes checked by his dissertation committee!

2023/01/18
Congratulations to Hannah, Jennifer and Carina for being chosen to display their images at the 2023 CNY Art Show!

2023/01/11
Congratulations to Dr. Hwang for winning an MGH Celebration of Science Recognition Award!

2022/09/25
A fun weekend trip to New Hampshire for our annual retreat!

2022/08/11
Congratulations to Jennifer for receiving the Koch Institute’s Research Travel Award!

2022/08/11
Congratulations to Ryan for receiving the Akoya Biosciences 100-plex Grant Award!

2022/08/05
Exciting to see our story on the August 2022 cover of Nature Genetics!

2022/07/05
First day of work at our beautiful lab space at the Simches Research Center

2022/06/09
Congratulations to Dr. Hwang for receiving a Career Development Award (K08CA270417) from the National Cancer Institute!

2022/05/19
Congratulations to Dr. Hwang for winning the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists!

2022/04/05
Congratulations to Carina for winning the Poster for Distinction Award at the MGH Celebration of Science!