Lab News
2026
Aug — Jennifer Chen, MD/PhD joins the lab as a T32-funded postdoctoral fellow studying inflammatory skin disease.
Aug — Annika Ridky's review on granuloma biology accepted at Genes & Development.
Aug — Thomas Leung and Misha Rosenbach receive a Sponsored Research Agreement from Priovant Therapeutics to study human skin granulomas.
Aug — Shivam Zaver, MD/PhD joins the lab as a T32-funded postdoctoral fellow studying inflammatory skin disease.
Jul — Kevin Kim receives an NIH F30 predoctoral fellowship to study granuloma biology.
May — Thomas Leung and Misha Rosenbach receive a Milken-ATF award to study sarcoidosis.
Mar — Linda Zhou wins a Dermatology Foundation Research Fellowship for foam-cell biology.
Mar — Anna Son and Emmanuel Rapp's paper on continuous versus cycling GLP-1 published in JCI Insight. [link]
Mar — Thomas Leung receives a Dermatology Foundation Mid-Career Award to study atopic dermatitis.
Jan — Thomas Leung named the Herman Beerman, MD II Professor of Dermatology.
2025
Nov — Thomas Leung inducted into the Interurban Clinical Club, one of the oldest physician-scientist honor societies.
Oct — Emmanuel Rapp's paper on how rosemary extracts promote skin regeneration published in JCI Insight. [link]
Sep — The Penn 4D Center for Human Skin Biology is founded, with Thomas Leung as inaugural director.
Sep — Matthew Dean, PhD joins the lab to study atopic dermatitis and immune-cell plasticity.
Sep — Thomas Leung receives an NIH R56 award to study granulomatous diseases.
Aug — John Huang's paper describing how neutrophils become long-lived in skin published in JCI. [link]
Aug — Linda Zhou, MD/PhD joins the lab as a T32-funded postdoctoral fellow studying foam-cell biology.
Aug — Thomas Leung wins best oral presentation (basic science) at the World Association for Sarcoidosis and Other Granulomatous Disorders meeting in Ottawa, Canada.
Jun — Satish Sati, PhD leaves the lab to join St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as a staff scientist.
May — Thomas Leung gives a State-of-the-Art Plenary talk at the Society for Investigative Dermatology meeting.
Apr — Thomas Leung receives a VA Merit Supplement award from the MERP program to study granulomatous diseases.
