NEWS

February 2025

We are excited to announce that Valerie Dells and Saiqa Khushal have joined our lab. We warmly welcome them to our team and look forward to their contributions and collaboration. Let’s achieve great things together!

January 2025

Tehmeena and Amna presented at 12th Annual Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Retreat

November 2024

Tehmeena Akhter and Amna Aurang Zaib presented research abstracts at the Greater Baltimore Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2024

October 2024

Dr. Ahmed (PI): New Grant; UM-BILD
Delivery of the CIB2 Gene to the Retina as a Therapy for Dry AMD

June 2024

Tehmeena Akhter: Received Graduate Research Excellence Award in the Annual Blanchard Kleiman Graduation Ceremony

Firoz Kabir: Received Post Doctoral Research Excellence Award in the Annual Blanchard Kleiman Graduation Ceremony

May 2024

Mary Hackbarth: Received T32 research grant

Sehar Riaz attended and gave a podium presentation at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) conference in Baltimore, MD, USA, and received the Meritorious Travel Award.

Mary Hackbarth attended The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting in Seatle and presented a poster on Exploring the potential role of CIB2 in age-related macular degeneration.

Sehar Riaz received the best poster presenter award in the graduate student category at the first Stem Cell Symposium and Workshop in Maryland, MD, USA.

March 2024

Tehmeena Akhter: Attended and gave a podium presentation at the Baltimore Area Repair Symposium (BARS) 2024

Amna Aurang Zaib:  Presented abstract and received Best Poster Award at the Baltimore Area Repair Symposium (BARS) 2024

November 2023

Tehmeena Akhter presented abstracts at SFN-2023

Amna Aurang Zaib presented and received a Trainee Professional Development Award for SFN-2023

Mary Hackbarth presented an abstract at ASHG-2023.