It’s been a good week. Reflecting on my role on this planet, and my next set of purpose and goals.

It was awesome to get together for our first annual CZI LA Consortium on Exploratory Cell Networks to Decode and Program Cellular Behavior. Congrats to Anisa for presenting and winning the innovation poster award. Fun times with all of our collaborators! 📈 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative CZI Science

Susan Quaggin, MD (Susan Quaggin), newly appointed chair of the Department of Medicine, focuses on advancing medicine by enhancing #PatientCare and #HealthEquity. spr.ly/6013mWjVd

Susan Quaggin The first woman to serve in this role at Northwestern, she builds on her previous leadership position as the chief of the Division of Northwestern Kidney and Hypertension.

So special to host my first PhD student, now Senior Scientist II AbbVie. Thanks to Jonathan for taking the time to give back and share his experiences in industry to our dept and trainees.

Biocom California is proud to help drive the future of RNA therapeutics as a sponsor of the 3rd RNA Leaders USA Congress. Learn more: bit.ly/4g0Oobb

It’s been two weeks since our sweet Olive crossed the rainbow. 🌈 We got Olive from PAWSChicago and she was there when I became a mom, move to LA, postdoc to tenured faculty. We’ll miss you our forever girl. 🐾 Give all your pets an extra hug for us. They are the best.

We are superpumped to welcome two new postdocs to the lab! Welcome to Gina Jiahui Chen from NC State University and Ronnie LaMastro Shukla Laboratory for Designer Biomaterials Brown University Center for Biomedical Engineering! chunglaboratory.com/postdoctoral-r…

Come join me at UW-Madison! We have *four open rank* searches this year in CBE. For more information, please see Jobs at UW: lnkd.in/g8UPe_nv lnkd.in/gc4iGN7x #chemicalengineering #hiring #sustainability #artificialintelligence #AI #facultyhiring #OnWisconsin

Too funny not to repost. Thanks for the chuckles this morning 😂

🚨Funding opportunity for ESIs - Due 11/1 Apply for up to $50,000 for kidney research projects using George M. O’Brien Kidney Resource Alliance (OKRA) NRC resources. Optional LOI submissions are due by 9/30, and full applications are due by 11/1. Details:bit.ly/NUGo-Funding

Awesome time at #NanoDDS presenting our work and learning from the community, and catching up! Great job to Isabella for presenting her poster on our long term therapeutic studies of miR micelles.

This picture is special. Abigail was the first to have prenatal repair of open spina bifida at our center. #LAFetalSurgeryReunion2024

Graduate students & postdocs working in soft matter, energy materials, and biological matter are invited to apply to the Rising Stars Symposium organized by UChicago and UC San Diego #MRSECs. Learn more here: mrsec.uchicago.edu/educational-ou…

Cut to: the future of computer science. Ginsburg Hall is officially the new hub for AI, robotics, and sustainable innovation!

Big congrats to former trainees and colleagues this week on new funding! Chris Nelson - new NIH R35 (MIRA) Thomas Werfel - new NIH STTR Jonathan Brunger - first PI NIH R01 Can’t wait to see the great work that will come out of these exciting new projects.

My LA commute and its moments of art.

We need to do more for rare, congenital, and genetic diseases.

Some kidney ramen 🍜 (proximal tubules) for this #FluorescenceFriday