A dream comes true. Tonight I threw out the first pitch at Fenway for the Red Sox-Braves game. This was in honor of my election to the National Academy of Sciences. Pretty happy with the pitch!😀
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Dr. Len Zon
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Dr. Len Zon
@leonard_zon
Director of the Stem Cell Program @BostonChildrens
- The Zon lab is excited to present a method to avoid reformatting of papers with every submission to a new journal. We feel this will save time for scientists. A uniform format for manuscript submission cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
- Honored to be elected to the NAS today. I want to thank all of my lab members whose hard work made this possible, my mentors and my family for all their support over the years.
- Very excited to see our new Science paper by my student Sam Wattrus. Macrophages interact with stem cells and determine which clones to selectively amplify or to destroy, providing a quality assurance mechanism for determining which stem cells contribute to adult blood.
- Very happy to receive the Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Award today. Presented to me by Liz Patton. The award trophy is so cool - it is a mold of a zebrafish embryo!!
Very honored to receive the Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Award of the European Zebrafish Society for 2022. Janni (Christiane) and the early Tubingen group was incredibly kind to my lab in collaborating on blood mutants from the major zebrafish screen. ezsociety.org/cnv-awardee-20… - Congrats to my postdoc Cecilia Pessoa Rodrigues on her Science paper. We show that dsRNAs from endogenous viral elements bind to TLR3, inducing the don't eat me signal, B2m, on HSCs. This protects the stem cell from phagocytosis by macrophages.
- A great honor to receive the ASH Mentor Award. Thanks to all my trainees and friends.
- Excited about the opportunities for cellular barcoding to study stem cell clones and cancer. Great to see some highlights on our recent Science paper.
- I am attending the 20th International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) meeting in SF. Hard to believe it has been 20 years since I started the society! It has over 4300 members and is doing a fantastic job at moving the stem cell field forward. Very proud of ISSCR.
- Very happy and honored to be selected for this year's American Society of Hematology Mentor Award. hematology.org/Newsroom/Press…
- Congrats to my daughter, Becky, on completing three years of her Oncology Fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Becky is planning on continuing her work in Ben Ebert’s lab and will see patients in Hematology clinic.
- Very happy and honored to be selected for this year's William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award at Harvard Medical School. It has been a privilege to work with some many talented scientists and doctors through the years. dicp.hms.harvard.edu/awards/excelle…
- I would like to congratulate my daughter, Becky, for receiving this Damon Runyon grant. Very proud of her research!!Replying to @DamonRunyon@beckyzon is working to understand why thalidomide derivatives, a class of drugs used to treat multiple myeloma, increase the likelihood of blood clots for cancer patients. She hopes to translate her findings into more targeted medications that can improve treatment outcomes.
- Congrats to my son, Tyler, on graduating from Harvard Business School. We are very very proud of you.
