On Sept. 3, 2023, Postdoc Dr. Taka Yamamoto left the Van Meir Lab to return to Japan, so we hosted farewell lunch at Taco Mama.

Alex, Rashed, and Jesse presented their research at the 2^nd Southeastern Brain Tumor Research Meeting (SBTRM) hosted at UAB on May 18^th, 2023.

Dr. Van Meir and his lab members beat the clock at Birmingham’s Breakout Escape Room. Afterwards, they celebrated lab achievements and a new lab member with a nice dinner.

On January 19, 2023, Dr. Erwin Van Meir was honored as the inaugural David Hart White Endowed Professor and expressed his thanks to the O’Neal and White families for their continued support of the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center and his professorship appointment.

Watch Dr. Van Meir’s remarks by downloading the video here.

On April 25, 2023, the UAB Heersink School of Medicine and Department of Neurosurgery celebrated Dr. Erwin Van Meir’s appointment to the David Hart White Endowed Professorship at the Endowed Chairs and Professorships Reception.

Rashed Parag presented his research at the Brain Tumor Research-In-Progress (TRIP) meeting on 02/24/2023. Great Job Rashed!

Post-doc Kiyo Saitou and graduate student Rashed Parag celebrated their success with their first molecular cloning experiments using Gibson Assembly and In-Fusion approaches.

Putting the band back together: reunion of former postdocs from the Ludwig Institute who all became faculty (from left to right: Shiyuan Cheng, Frank Furnari, Erwin Van Meir, Oliver Bogler, Jo Costello).

Yuki Kuranaga presents her poster to Karina Vazquez-Arreguin, a post-doc in Dr. Balveen Kaur’s laboratory.

Fun bowling at the SNO opening reception with Dr. Balveen Kaur’s laboratory group.

The Van Meir lab hosted a Halloween celebration and team building activity for lab members and their families.