Scientific News

Fred Hutch campus with Space Needle in background

Fred Hutch campus with Space Needle in background.        

Photo by Robert Hood / Fred Hutch News Service

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2025

February 13, 2025

Annie Clurman and Sara Pernikoff presenting our abstract “RSV in HCT recipients: Clinical and Humoral Risk Factors for Infection” in Hawaii at the Tandem 2025 meeting of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. Great discussion with Filipo Milano from Fred Hutch and Oriana Miltiadous from Sloan Kettering

Annie and Sara presenting RSV abstract

2024

November 2024

Check out our new collaborative effort with Andrew McGuire and Warren Phipps to take on Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpes virus.

October 16th, 2024

Hannah Lewis presented for the Fred Hutch B-Cell Interest Group "An antigen-agnostic screen to develop broadly protective antibodies for immunotherapy against human cytomegalovirus."

August 2024

Congrats Kristen on presenting your research on quantitative PCR detection of human metapneumovirus at the Fred Hutch Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Shout out to Sara for being a great co-mentor. And make sure to check out what Kristen McLean is working on in this Fred Hutch Video

Kristen and Sara with the proster
May 17, 2024
 
  • “Lea Kipnis presents her poster, “Can Modifications in the Antibody Fc Domain Increase the Therapeutic Efficacy of a Cross-Neutralizing Antibody against RSV and HMPV?”, at the University of Washington Undergraduate Research Symposium. Well done, Lea. Shout out to Evelyn and Matt for being awesome teachers.
Lea with her poster

April 2024

  • Boonyaratanakornkit Lab has received a 2024 Evergreen Pilot Award: Development of an Antigen-Agnostic Approach to Isolate Protective Antibodies to Human Cytomegalovirus.

2023

October 31, 2023

  • Welcome Hannah Lewis who is joining the lab as our very first post-doctoral fellow.
Welcome Hannah Lewis

August 2023

  • Celebration of the lab's 0th birthday (baby lab shower) at the Fred Hutch. Go team!
Boonyaratanakornkit Lab 0th Birthday Celebration

Allison Kim presenting her work "Exploring the kinetics of Fc mutated Antibodies" as part of the Infectious Disease Sciences Summer Scholars Internship Program.

Allison Presenting her research

May 2023

Lab team members at BBQ
  • The Boonyaratanakornkit Lab in collaboration with the Boeckh/Waghmare groups, GSK, and Vir Biotechnology win the best oral abstract award at the International Society for Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, Antivirals Group Meeting, in Seattle.
Jim presenting at conference

Dr. Boonyaratanakornkit presenting at the International Society for Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, Antivirals Group Meeting.

February 18, 2023

  • Jim and Dr. Michael Boeckh at Tandem 2023 in Orlando, Florida with their poster “Sotrovimab pharmacokinetics and covariate effects in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients”.  
Jim and Dr. Boeckh.

Dr. Boonyaratanakornkit and Dr. Michael Boeckh.


2022

October 2, 2022

  • Maddi presents her poster on "Protection against RSV and HPIV3 co-infections using an antibody cocktail" at the RSV 2022 Symposium in Belfast, Ireland.
  • Jim is awarded best oral presentation at the RSV 2022 Symposium in Belfast, Ireland.
Maddi with poster

Maddi's poster.

  • Gala at the Titanic, video taken by Jim Boonyaratanakornkit.


September 1, 2022

  • Farewell and congrats to our structural biology collaborator Justas Rodarte in the Pancera Lab who will be starting graduate school in immunology at the University of Washington.
  • Welcome Sara Pernikoff to the lab! Learn more about Sara.
Group photo of lab members

August 13, 2022

  • Jim and Maddi ride and volunteer in Obliteride to support cancer and infectious disease research at Fred Hutch.
Jim and team at Obliteride
Jim and team at Obliteride
Jim and team at Obliteride

July 8, 2022

June 26, 2022

  • Our preprint on cross-protective antibodies to RSV, HMPV, and parainfluenza viruses is posted on BioRxiv. Check it out!    

June 17, 2022

June 3, 2022

  • Our collaborator Justas Rodarte in the Pancera Group presents structural data on our cross-neutralizing parainfluenza antibody at the Keystone Symposia on Progress in Vaccine Development for Infectious Diseases in Breckenridge, Colorado.