Lab News
May 15, 2018
Chris is awarded an NIH K99 Pathway to Independence Award!
April 3, 2018
Congrats to Jennifer, Dewran, and Chris for recieving travel awards from the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy to attend the annual society meeting!
April 2, 2018
Nahid Iglesias, PhD, joins us from Harvard as a Senior Scientist!
March 8, 2018
Tyler receives the Duke Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering Student Achievement Award!
March 8, 2018
Jennifer wins Best Poster Award at the Kewaunee Lecture!
October 13, 2017
Shaunak wins a travel award from the Regeneration Next Initiative to present at the annual meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society!
September 29, 2017
Adrian is awarded a Pfizer-NCBiotech Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gene Therapy!
September 22, 2017
Congrats to Josh for being awarded an NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke!
August 4, 2017
Our work is included in a Nature Medicine feature on epigenome editing - read it here!
August 1, 2017
Welcome Brian Cosgrove as our newest postdoc!
August 1, 2017
Tyler's paper is highlighted in the Journal of the American Medical Association - read more here!
July 10, 2017
Karen Bulaklak joins the lab as a postdoctoral associate. Welcome Karen!
May 22, 2017
Congrats to Isaac on winning the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Award to start his own lab as tenure-track Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University!
May 11, 2017
Congrats to Jacqueline and Pratiksha for winning Excellence in Research Awards from the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy!
May 3, 2017
Congrats to Jennifer for receiving a travel award from the Duke Regeneration Next Initiative to present her work at the annual meeting of the International Society of Stem Cell Research in Boston!
April 26, 2017
Congrats to Brian Cosgrove, who is joining us as a Duke Regeneration Next Intiative Postdoctoral Fellow!
April 20, 2017
Congrats to Josh for being recognized with the 2017 Student Achievement Award from the Duke Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering!
April 20, 2017
Congrats to Jennifer and Chris for winning the graduate student and postdoc best poster awards, respectively, at the Annual Kewaunnee Distinguished Lectureship of the Duke Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering!
April 15, 2017
Congrats to Matt who will be enrolling as a PhD student in the Duke Cellular and Molecular Biology Program this fall!
April 4, 2017
Read press releases on Tyler's paper in The Scientist and Duke News.
April 3, 2017
Tyler's paper on CRISPR-based epigenome editing screens of gene regulatory elements is published in Nature Biotechnology.
March 17, 2017
Veronica is awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship - Congrats!
February 1, 2017
Charlie has been elected to the College of Fellows at the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
December 9, 2016
Congrats to Jacqueline for being awarded a Predoctoral Graduate Fellowship from the American Heart Association!
October 8, 2016
Chris is recognized with the Outstanding Postdoc Award from the Duke Office of Postdoctoral Services, Vice Provost for Research, and Vice Dean for Basic Sciences. Congrats Chris!
October 2, 2016
Our genome editing work is highlighted by The Scientist in an article on the history of the technologies.
August 29, 2016
We welcome Veronica Gough as our newest BME PhD student.
August 20, 2016
Jacqueline's review on gene editing for Duchenne muscular dystrophy is published in a special issue of Human Genetics
August 15, 2016
Josh's Cell Stem Cell paper gets highlighted by Duke, Nature, The Scientist, BioTechniques, and GEN News.
August 11, 2016
Josh's paper on direct reprogramming of fibroblasts to neuronal cells by epigenetic remodeling with CRISPR/Cas9 factors is published in Cell Stem Cell.
August 1, 2016
Dewran was awarded the Howard Clark Second Year Fellowship from the Department of Biomedical Engineering - congrats Dewran!
July 11, 2016
Our work on epigenome editing and gene regulation is highlighted in New Scientist.
June 9, 2016
Tyler recieves an award for best presentation at the FASEB Science Research Conference on Genome Engineering.
June 5, 2016
Jacqueline, Jennifer, and Tyler all present their work at the FASEB Science Research Conference on Genome Engineering in Lisbon, Portugal.
May 14, 2016
Pratiskha is recognized with the Oustanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Duke Department of Biomedical Engineering.
May 4, 2016
Chris, Jacqueline, Pratiksha, Jennifer, Shaunak, and Ami all present at the 19th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.
April 28, 2016
Our work on applying CRISPR-based genome editing to a therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy is highlighted in the New England Journal of Medicine.
April 15, 2016
Rui has been selected as a 2016 recipient of the Gertrude B. Elion Mentored Medical Student Award - Congrats Rui!
March 24, 2016
Pratiksha Thakore successfully defends her thesis - congrats Dr. Thakore!
March 11, 2016
Charlie is named the Rooney Family Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering.
March 1, 2016
Joe Bellucci joins the lab as our newest postdoctoral associate.
December 31, 2015
Chris’s paper on in vivo gene editing with CRISPR for Duchenne muscular dystrophy is published in Science.
December 31, 2015
Chris’s paper is highlighted in the New York Times, Science Magazine, Newsweek, The Guardian, BBC, Stat News, GEN News, and Rare Disease Report.
December 23, 2015
Charlie is co-Guest Editor with Prof. Jennifer Doudna for a special issue of Genome Biology on genome editing.
December 3, 2015
Epigenome editing work from the Gersbach Lab is highlighted in Nature.
October 26, 2015
Pratiksha's paper on CRISPR/Cas9-based repressors of gene regulatory elements is published in Nature Methods.
October 14, 2015
We welcome Adrian Pickar, Ph.D. to the Gersbach Lab as a postdoctoral associate.
October 1, 2015
Isaac's review on genome engineering and functional genomics is published in the 20th anniversary issue of Genome Research.
September 17, 2015
Our collaborative work with the Marszalek lab on specificity of CRISPR is published in Nucleic Acids Research.
September 1, 2015
Katie Glass receives the 2015 Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society Young Investigator Award. Congrats Katie!
August 31, 2015
Liad is awarded the Robert Plonsey Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering - Congrats Liad!
August 1, 2015
Tyler Klann is awarded an NIH Predoctoral Fellowship from the Duke Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering. Congrats Tyler!
March 7, 2015
Lauren's paper on light-inducible CRISPR-based gene regulation is highlighted in Biotechniques.
February 27, 2015
The Muscular Dystrophy Association releases statements on our work using CRISPR/Cas9 technology for gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy here and here.
February 18, 2015
Dave's paper on correction of mutations that cause Duchenne muscular dystrophy with the CRISPR/Cas9 system is published in Nature Communications. Read the associated press releases from the Duke School of Engineering and FierceBiotech.
February 9, 2015
Lauren's paper on light-inducible CRISPR/Cas9-based gene regulation is published in Nature Chemical Biology.
January 12, 2015
We welcome Matt Gemberling, Ph.D. to the Gersbach Lab as a postdoctoral associate.
January 7, 2015
Welcome undergrads! Aishu Ramamurthi and Sarina Madhavan join the lab as undergraduate research assistants.
January 5, 2015
The Gersbach Lab is part of a Duke team led by Tim Reddy to be awarded an NIH grant to decipher the Genomics of Gene Regulation.
December 17, 2014
Pratiksha’s paper, in collaboration with the Guilak Lab, on enhancing cartilage formation by induced pluripotent stem cells by manipulating cell cycle inhibitors is published in Tissue Engineering.
December 12, 2014
The Gersbach and Asokan Labs receive a Duke-UNC Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Consortium Collaborative Translational Research Grant to collaborate on developing in vivo genome editing technologies.
December 10, 2014
Ami’s paper on protein engineering of transcription factors to enhance genetic reprogramming is published in ACS Synthetic Biology.
December 1, 2014
Duke University licenses technology developed in the Gersbach Lab to Editas Medicine, a startup company focused on therapeutic genome engineering. Read the release.
November 3, 2014
The Duke iGEM team is a awarded a gold medal at the 2014 iGEM Giant Jamboree.
October 23, 2014
Ami's collaboration with the Leong Lab on reprogramming cell lineage with CRISPR/Cas9-Based transcription factors is published in Stem Cell Reports.
October 17, 2014
Charlie is Guest Editor of a special issue of ACS Synthetic Biology on Engineered DNA-Binding Proteins. Read Ami and Charlie's introduction to the issue and check out Pablo's image on the cover.
September 29, 2014
Charlie contributes a commentary on genome engineering to the 10th Anniversary Issue of Nature Methods, and Lauren's image is featured on the cover.
September 1, 2014
Josh Black is awarded an NIH Predoctoral Fellowship from the Duke Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering. Congrats Josh!
August 15, 2014
We welcome Tyler Klann and Liad Holtzman as our newest BME PhD students.
August 13, 2014
Ami and Dave's paper on a lentiviral system for multiplex genome engineering with CRISPR/Cas9 is published in Nucleic Acids Research.
July 8, 2014
Ami's review on engineered TALE- and CRISPR/Cas9-based transcription factors is published in Methods.
June 27, 2014
Pratiksha, Lauren, Ami, and Dave all present at the FASEB Science Research Conference on Genome Engineering. Congrats to Pratkisha, Lauren, and Dave for winning student travel awards!
June 24, 2014
We receive funding from the Duke-Coulter Translational Partnership Program to advance our work on genome editing for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
June 11, 2014
Pablo and Charlie publish an editorial on using engineered transcription factors for gene therapy and regenerative medicine in Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets.
June 2, 2014
Chris Nelson joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Chris!
Feimei Liu and Hunter Hutchinson join the lab as undergraduate research fellows through the Howard Hughes Undergraduate Program and the IGSP Summer Fellowship Program.
May 30, 2014
Charlie co-authors a review on the engineered zinc finger protein technology in Accounts of Chemical Research.
May 21, 2014
Dave, Dewran, Tyler, Ami, Pratiksha, Josh, Jonathan, and Charlie all present at the 17th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy. Congrats to Dave and Dewran for winning Meritorious Abstract Travel Awards!
May 7, 2014
Charlie co-authors a column in Nature Medicine on recent advances in using the CRISPR technology for gene therapy.
April 22, 2014
Katie's paper on gene therapy for immunomodulation in cartilage tissue engineering is published in Biomaterials.
April 13, 2014
Lauren's chapter on light-inducible zinc finger proteins is published in Methods in Molecular Biology.
April 4, 2014
Dave successfully defends his PhD thesis. Congrats Dr. Ousterout!
April 1, 2014
The Guilak and Gersbach Labs receive an R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of genetic variation in osteoarthritis.
March 20, 2014
Dave receives the Student Achievement Award from the Duke Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering. Congrats Dave!
March 4, 2014
Charlie is quoted in a New York Times article on genome editing with CRISPR.
March 3, 2014
Jonathan's paper is highlighted by both the NIH and Wired.
March 1, 2014
Charlie co-authors an article on Genome Editing Technologies in Genetic Engineering News.
February 18, 2014
Jonathan's collaborative work between the Guilak and Gersbach labs on gene therapy for cartilage tissue engineering is published in PNAS.
January 31, 2014
Cameron is going to be on Jeopardy!
January 28, 2014
Our work with CRISPR is highlighted in New Scientist.
January 15, 2014
Charlie receives the 2014 Outstanding New Investigator Award from the American Society for Gene and Cell Therapy.
January 9, 2014
Our work on genome editing for correcting muscular dystrophy is highlighted by the MDA.
December 12, 2013
Charlie co-authors an article in Forbes.com with Tom Katsouleas, Dean of Engineeering, on the value of the iGEM competition on undergraduate engineering education.
November 22, 2013
Dewran successfully defends his Masters thesis. Congrats Dewran!
November 1, 2013
We are excited to have Dr. Isaac Hilton join the lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
October 1, 2013
Ami, Katie, and Suyash are featured in GenomeLife for their work, and the Gersbach Lab is highlighted for bridging the Pratt School of Engineering and the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy.
September 13, 2013
The Gersbach Lab receives an NIH R01 grant to develop tools to precisely manipulate the human epigenome with Duke IGSP collaborators Greg Crawford and Tim Reddy.
September 1, 2013
In collaboration with the Guilak Lab, we have received funding from the Nancy Taylor Foundation to develop stem cell therapies for chronic diseases.
August 23, 2013
Our work on CRISPR-mediated gene regulation is highlighted in a news story in Science.
August 15, 2013
We welcome Jacqueline and Josh as our newest Duke BME PhD students.
August 1, 2013
The Gersbach Lab is awarded funding from the Muscular Dystrophy Association to support our work on gene editing to correct Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
July 25, 2013
Pablo's paper on CRISPR-based RNA-guided human gene activation is published in Nature Methods. Read the coverage by Duke's IGSP and Genetic Engineering News.
July 8, 2013
Charlie gives a plenary lecture at the 12th Congress of the Cell Transplant Society.
June 10, 2013
Pratiksha and Tyler present their work at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.
June 4, 2013
Dave's paper on genome editing to correct Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is published in Molecular Therapy. The paper is highlighted by the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Genetic Engineering News, and Biotechniques.
June 3, 2013
We welcome Nishkala, Mishelle, and Josh into the lab as summer undergraduate research fellows through Duke's Howard Hughes, Pratt REU, and IGSP summer fellows programs.
May 16, 2013
Dave, Pablo, Lauren, Pratiksha, and Ami present their work at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.
May 13, 2013
Pratiksha and Lauren are awarded predoctoral fellowships from the American Heart Association. Congrats!
May 8, 2013
Charlie co-authors a review article in Trends in Biotechnology on genome engineering technologies.
April 20, 2013
Charlie recieves the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research from the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University.
April 18, 2013
Lauren wins a poster award at the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering's Annual Kewaunee Lecture.
April 13, 2013
Pablo receives the Postdoctoral Achievement Award from Duke's Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering.
April 2, 2013
Tyler's review article on single cell analyses and lineage commitment is published online in Biotechnology Journal and his image is featured on the cover.
March 31, 2013
Lauren's work is highlighted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
March 26, 2013
Ami and Dave receive travel awards to present their work at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy. Congrats!
March 18, 2013
Lauren, Dave, and Pablo present their work at the Keystone Symposia on Precision Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology.
February 28, 2013
Pablo's paper is highlighted by Nature Methods News and Views.
February 15, 2013
ACS Synthetic Biology summarizes the 4th International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering.
February 5, 2013
Pablo's paper on activating human genes for applications in synthetic biology is published in Nature Methods. The paper is highlighted by Duke University and Science Daily.
February 1, 2013
Charile co-authors a letter to the editor in Molecular Therapy calling for an International Gene Therapy Consortium.
January 14, 2013
Ami, Lauren, and Charlie present at the International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering.
January 11, 2013
Lauren recieves a Keystone Symposia Scholarship to present at the meeting on Precision Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology. Congrats Lauren!
December 11, 2012
Ami and Lauren recieve travel awards to present their work at the International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering. Congrats!
December 4, 2012
Congratulations to Ami on receiving her MS degree!
November 28, 2012
Congratulations to Cameron Kim on being named a Pratt Research Fellow!
October 8, 2012
Cameron Kim is profiled by the Duke Research Blog.
October 3, 2012
Lauren's paper on light-inducible gene activation is highlighted by the Pratt School of Engineering and Genetic Engineering News.
September 10, 2012
Pratiksha, Lauren, Ami, Dave, and Tyler present their work at the 14th Annual Conference of the North Carolina Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society.
September 10, 2012
Lauren's work on light-inducible gene activation is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
September 1, 2012
The Gersbach lab is highlighted in Duke's GenomeLIFE.
August 19, 2012
Our review article on genome editing technologies is published in Current Opinion in Chemical Biology.
August 13, 2012
Congratulations to Lauren Polstein for being appointed a Predoctoral Fellow in the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering's NIH Training Program.
July 27, 2012
Congratulations to Ami Kabadi for receiving a 2012 Design and Research Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society.
June 1, 2012
Congrats to Dave Ousterout for being awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association.
May 17, 2012
Dave, Lauren, Pablo, Pratiksha, and Jonathan present their work at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.
May 7, 2012
Congratulations to Lauren Polstein for being awarded the Best Presentation by a Junior Graduate Student at the Duke Biomedical Engineering Annual Retreat.
May 4, 2012
Congratulations to Ankit Rajgariah and David Yudovich for graduating with their Bachelor's degrees, and to Lauren Barth, Tyler Gibson, and David Ousterout for earning their Master of Science degrees.
May 1, 2012
Tyler Gibson and Dr. Gersbach present at the 3rd International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering.
April 19, 2012
Congratulations to Lauren Polstein for winning a poster award at the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering's Annual Kewaunee Lecture.
April 1, 2012
Charlie is awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation.
March 28, 2012
Dave Ousterout is awarded a student travel award to attend the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy. Congrats Dave!
March 15, 2012
Dr. Steve Bischoff joins the Gersbach Lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
January 11, 2012
Matt Brown and Sarek Shen are awarded Pratt Engineering Undergraduate Research Fellowships to work in the Gersbach Lab.
January 7, 2012
Charlie presents in the "Rising Stars" session at the 2nd BMES-SPRBM Conference on Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.
October 14, 2011
Tyler, Dave, and Ami present their work at the Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society in Hartford, CT.
September 20, 2011
The Gersbach Lab receives a NIH Director's New Innovator Award to support our work on genetic reprogramming.
September 14, 2011
Congratulations to Lauren Polstein for being awarded the McChesney Fellowship by the Department of Biomedical Engineering!
May 21, 2011
Pablo presents his work at the 14th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy in Seattle, WA.
May 15, 2011
Congrats to Brian for being awarded his Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering!
April 16, 2011
Pablo, Dave, Tyler, and Charlie present at the 2011 Duke Synthetic Biology Symposium. Congrats to Pablo and Tyler for winning poster awards!
April 15, 2011
The Gersbach Lab receives a seed grant from Duke's Center for Systems Biology to study the dynamics of cell differentiation and proliferation.
April 1, 2011
The Gersbach Lab receives a R03 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study gene delivery and tissue engineering.
March 29, 2011
Charlie receives a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities.
February 1, 2011
Charlie receives a Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Award from the March of Dimes.
January 21, 2011
The Gersbach Lab welcomes Pratiksha Thakore as a rotation student for Spring semester.
January 12, 2011
Congratulations to David Yudovich and Ankit Rajgariah who were accepted into the Pratt Engineering Undergraduate Research Fellows Program.
November 12, 2010
Charlie spoke at the 12th Annual Conference of the North Carolina Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society on our research progress in genome editing for gene therapies.
October 25, 2010
Lauren, Tyler, Dave, Pratiksha, Ami, Cameron, and Matt all present their work at the Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
September 4, 2010
Charlie presents at the FASEB Summer Research Conference on Genome Engineering.
September 1, 2010
The Gersbach Lab welcomes Lauren Polstein to our group as our newest graduate student.
August 20, 2010
Congratulations to Tyler Gibson for being appointed a Predoctoral Fellow in the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering's NIH Training Program.
August 12, 2010
Congratulations to Dave Ousterout for being awarded the Howard G. Clark III Fellowship by the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations to Tyler Gibson who was awarded Honorable Mention.
July 12, 2010
The Gersbach Lab welcomes Dr. Pablo Perez-Pinera to our group as a postdoctoral fellow.
July 3, 2010
Our work is featured on the cover of Nucleic Acids Research.
June 21, 2010
Charlie presents at the Summer Bioengineering Conference of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
June 10, 2010
The Gersbach Lab welcomes undergraduates David, Justin, Brad, Matt, and Lauren for summer research projects.
June 10, 2010
Charlie spoke at the FASEB Genome Engineering Conference on "Engineering Zinc Finger Recombinases for Targeted Genome Editing".
June 4, 2010
Charlie receives a Scientist Development Grant from the American Heart Association.
April 10, 2010
Charlie is the recipient of a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award.
March 1, 2010
Charlie's work is highlighted as a Featured Article by Nucleic Acids Research.
January 19, 2010
Charlie is interviewed in the Duke Engineering News.