Welcome to UMass Chan Medical School Dr. Silvia Galván Peña 🙂

Thank you! This is an incredible honor! :-)

Ok… there really is awesome science happening at #Toll2024 , I promise, but this Michelin star dinner with Dr Neal Silverman and Megan Orzalli was also super noteworthy!!

Dutch windmills and great science! Awesome day trip from #Toll2024 with Bella Rauch, PhD @rauchlab.bsky.social Patrick S. Mitchell Olivia Majer

Defense Days are the BEST!! To no ones surprise, UMass Chan Medical School UMass Chan MD/PhD Program student Sammy Tse successfully defended her 3 first author paper, 350-page thesis. She is such a ⭐️!! Our lab’s 5th PhD defense in the last 5 years! #ProudPI

Well, this is exciting. Grateful to UMass Chan Medical School for being such a wonderful place to work.

Beaming with pride today…⭐️⭐️ UMass Chan MD/PhD Program student from my lab Nicholas Peterson matched today at my alma mater MassGeneral Medicine and the Stanbury Physician Scientist Program. Nick is bound for astronomical success as a physician-scientist. #ProudPI

New college grad? Want to go to med school or grad school? We can help you get in (we are 3 for 3) and you will make awesome discoveries about host-pathogen interactions in the process. Come join our awesome group UMass Chan Medical School. See below 👇👇👇. DM with ?s

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Out today in Nature Cell Biology . We show ECSIT mediated Fumarate synthesis drives memory CD8 T-cell development and anti-tumor immunity. Great collab with the Yang Lab. Congrats to all the authors. UMass Cancer Center Department of Medicine UMass Chan Program in Innate Immunity

nature.com/articles/s4155…

Registration is OPEN for #MAPSS2024 : The best C. elegans conference on Planet Earth. Check it out the list of the scientists who will be at this meeting!!! 👇👇👇

Yes! Come to #TOLL2024 . This meeting is always awesome.

I am incredibly honored to be elected to ASCI. UMass Chan Medical School

Dan is getting married, Noah is getting married, Amanda got into med school, Sammy submitted her paper… time for an Pukkila-Worley Lab Hibachi celebration!! UMass Chan Medical School

Check out this publication co-authored by 4 of our MD-PhD students!

Our lab manager Amanda Page was just accepted into the UMass Chan MD/PhD Program program UMass Chan Medical School !!! Our lab is 3 for 3 in Medical School acceptances. Reach out if you want a research experience before applying to med school because...well... we need a new lab manager. :-)

Check out our latest paper- just out in PLOS Pathogens ! UMass Chan Medical School UMass Chan MD/PhD Program students Mohamad Nasrallah and Nicholas Peterson in my lab characterize an awesome new mechanism of #immunometabolism : Sphingolipids, nuclear receptors, and pathogen resistance! journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…