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.