Alex Felix has won CURE Epilepsy’s Taking Flight Award to advance his work on “Fine-tuning the 3’UTR as a novel therapeutic strategy for genetic Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies.”
September 2025: Katey Stone was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F31 grant) from the National Heart,
Daria is now an assistant professor with her own lab at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, plus she’s first author on a paper that comes out of work begun in Ben’s lab: “
Yohei Yamauchi joined us as a visiting scholar from Japan. Read more about Yohei and our other lab members on our Team page.
Keita Uchida was awarded an American Heart Association grant to support his work on “Spatial Control Of Anabolism And Catabolism By Mtorc1 In The Heart.”
In this piece in Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, “Accelerating therapeutic development and clinical trial readiness for STXBP1 and SYNGAP1 disorders,”
Jennifer Petrosino was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32 grant) from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to pursue her research on “Microtubule-Mediated Trna Localization In Cardiac Homeostasis And Hypertrophy.”
On January 1st 2021 we officially kicked off the Leducq Cytoskeletal Network (LCN). This Trans-Atlantic Network of Excellence brings together 7 different labs from the U.S.
We’re thrilled to have entered into a sponsored research agreement with Ionis Pharmaceuticals, the leading experts on antisense technology. The partnership will be between Ionis and the Prosser and Davidson labs at Penn and CHOP,
Julie Heffler’s work on how a balance of cytoskeletal forces maintains nuclear integrity in the cardiomyocyte earned cover honors for the Jan 2020 issue of Circulation Research.
Congrats Matt – this work involved many overnight sessions conducting mechanical measurements on myocardial tissue preparations from transplant patients – when the heart often comes in around 2AM!
