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2024

April

Publications: The Nabet lab collaboration with the Roberts and Fischer labs is published in Nature. Congrats, team!

March

Publications: Saurav’s review article is published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. Congrats, Saurav!
Funding: Joy receives the University of Washington Mary Gates Research Scholarship. Thanks for the support!
Seminars: Behnam gives a talk at Drug Discovery Chemistry. Thanks for the invitation!

2023

December

Funding: Behnam and Sita Kugel receive a collaborative Human Biology Pilot Project Award. Thanks for the support!

November

Funding: Behnam receives an NCI U01 subaward in collaboration with Chris Kemp. Thanks for the support!

September

Lab News: Christina wins the Best Poster Award and Galloway Cup at the Human Biology Division annual retreat. Congrats, Christina!
Funding: Joy receives the University of Washington Levinson Emerging Scholars Award. Congrats, Joy!
Publications: Annabel’s paper is published in PLoS Pathogens. Congrats, Annabel, and team!
Publications: Christina’s Spotlight article is published in Trends in Pharmacological Sciences. Congrats, Christina!
Lab Members: Saurav Kumar joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome, Saurav!

August

Lab News: Christina joins the inaugural class of the Fred Hutch Postbaccalaureate Scholar Program. Congrats, Christina!
Funding: Behnam receives a Ben Cushing Cush it to the Limit grant. Thanks for the support!
Publications: The Nabet lab’s first cover is published in ChemBioChem. Congrats, team!
Lab Members: Mia Donald-Paladino joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher from the University of Washington. Welcome, Mia!

July

Funding: Behnam receives a PNW Prostate Cancer SPORE Developmental Research Program award. Thanks for the support!
Funding: Behnam and Annabel receive a Pathogen-Associated Malignancies Integrated Research Center Pilot Award. Thanks for the support!
Seminars: Behnam gives a talk at the 2^nd Targeted Protein Degradation Conference in Japan. Thanks for the invitation!
Lab Members: Aayush Muthuswamy joins the lab as a Summer Intern. Welcome, Aayush!

June

Seminars: Behnam gives a talk at the Conquering Chromatin in Childhood Cancers Symposium at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute. Thanks for the invitation!
Lab Members: Akshay Vakharia returns to the lab as a Summer Intern. Welcome back, Akshay!
Lab Members: Jorge Galarza Prieto joins the lab through an NIH RISE fellowship and the Cancer Research Internship for NMSU Graduate Students (CRI-G). Welcome, Jorge!
Lab Members: Joy Chen continues in the lab through the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Summer Research Program (SURP). Welcome back, Joy!

May

Lab News: The Nabet lab’s ChemBioChem publication is featured on the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Science Spotlight. Thanks to Joselyn Landazuri for highlighting our study!

April

Lab News: Behnam is selected as a ChemBioTalent by the ChemBioChem Editorial Board. Congrats, Behnam!
Publications: The Nabet lab’s first PROTAC paper is published in ChemBioChem. Congrats, team!
Publications: The Nabet lab collaboration with the Gray lab is published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. Congrats, team!

March

Publications: The Nabet lab collaboration with the Fulciniti lab is published in Blood. Congrats, team!
Funding: Annabel receives two travel awards to attend and present at conferences this year. Thanks for the support!
Funding: Joy receives the University of Washington Mary Gates Research Scholarship. Thanks for the support!
Lab Members: Annabel Olson joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome, Annabel!

February

Seminars: Behnam gives a talk in the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Targeted Protein Degradation Series. Thanks for the invitation!
Publications: The Nabet lab’s first protocol paper led by Stuti Mehta is published in Methods in Enzymology. Congrats, team!

January

Funding: Behnam receives a Robert L. Fine Cancer Research Foundation grant. Behnam is the first PI at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center to receive this award. Thanks for the support!
Lab Members: Kelsey Woodruff joins the lab as a rotation student from the University of Washington Molecular and Cellular Biology program. Welcome, Kelsey!

2022

December

Lab News: Jennifer and Behnam are featured in the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Year in Review. Thanks for the spotlight!
Seminars: Behnam gives a talk at New Mexico State University. Thanks for the invitation! 

November

Publications: The Nabet lab’s first book chapter is published in Protein Homeostasis in Drug Discovery: A Chemical Biology Perspective. What a fantastic collaboration with the Ferguson lab! Congrats, team!
Publications: The Nabet lab collaboration with the Hoshii lab is published in Cell Reports. Congrats, team!
Publications: The Nabet lab collaboration with the Hers lab is published in Blood Advances. Congrats, team!
Seminars: Behnam gives a talk at the University of Washington. Thanks for the invitation!

October

Seminars: Behnam gives a talk at Discovery on Target. Thanks for the invitation!

September

Publications: The Nabet lab collaboration with the Gray and Fischer labs is published in Cell Chemical Biology.  Congrats, team!
Lab Members: Jennifer Crainic joins the lab as a rotation student from the University of Washington Molecular and Cellular Biology program. Welcome, Jennifer!
Lab Members: Joy Chen joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher from the University of Washington. Welcome, Joy!

August

Lab News: Behnam is featured on Science Spotlight. Thanks to Rachel Lex for sharing our science, vision, and journey back to Seattle!
Funding: Behnam receives a Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium CCSG New Investigator Award. Thanks for the support!

July

Publications: The Nabet lab collaboration with the Orkin lab is published in Cell Chemical Biology. Congrats, team!
Lab Members: Akshay Vakharia joins the lab as a Summer Intern. Welcome, Akshay!
Lab Members: Christina Kuismi joins the lab as a Research Technician. Welcome, Christina!

May

Publications: The Nabet lab’s first paper led by Zhengnian Li and Ryosuke Ishida is published in European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. What a fantastic collaboration with the Gray lab! Congrats, team!
Seminars: Behnam gives a Science/AAAS webinar. Thanks for the invitation!
Seminars: Behnam gives a talk at the 2^nd Annual Induced Proximity-Based Drug Discovery Summit. Thanks for the invitation!

April

Seminars: Behnam gives a talk at Drug Discovery Chemistry. Thanks for the invitation!
Publications: The Nabet lab collaboration with the Stegmaier lab is published in Cancer Discovery. Congrats, team!
Funding: The Nabet lab and Talus Bio receive an NCATS R43 Award. Thanks for the support!

March

Lab Members: Jobelle Peralta joins the lab as a rotation student from the University of Washington Molecular and Cellular Biology program. Welcome, Jobelle!
Publications: The Nabet lab collaboration with Maxim Pimkim and the Orkin lab is published in Genes & Development. Congrats, team!
Publications: The Nabet lab’s first collaborative paper is published in Molecular Cell. What an incredible collaboration with the Armstrong lab. Congrats, team!

2021

November 

Funding: The Nabet and Berger labs receive a collaborative Human Biology Pilot Project Award. Thanks for the support!

October

Seminars: Behnam gives a talk at the American Cancer Society symposium, “Controlling proteostasis as an anti-cancer therapy.” Thanks for the invitation!

September

Seminars: Behnam gives a talk at Discovery on Target. Thanks for the invitation!
Funding: Behnam receives an NCI K22 Career Transition Award. Thanks for the support!
Lab News: The Nabet lab officially opens in the Human Biology Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center on September 20, 2021! We are so grateful for the support of so many colleagues, friends, and family for making this dream possible.