Category: News & Events

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, Lung, and Blood Institute for her project, “Investigating the protective role of stress granules in the heart.” Way to go!

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: “Microtubule forces drive nuclear damage in LMNA cardiomyopathy,” just published in Nature Cardiovascular Research.

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.” This Career Development Award will help Keita establish his independent lab.

In this piece in Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, “Accelerating therapeutic development and clinical trial readiness for STXBP1 and SYNGAP1 disorders,” Nick, Ben, and Mike Boland provide an overview of the disorders’ clinical features and the current understanding of pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic development.

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.” Excellent work!