February 2026 - Dr. Coelho is invited to join the WHO Review Group for the Poxvirus Collaborative Open Research Consortium (CORC).
February 2026 - Dr. Fantin takes the lead of the MPOX network, a collaborative initiative to foster collaborations on human immunology to orthopoxviruses.
January 2026 - Dr. Coelho is awarded the ASPIRE Award by the American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
January 2026 - Dr. Coelho is named a Keystone Fellow and joins the advisory board of the Keystone Symposia.
September 2025 - Dr. Coelho was named a Sinsheimer scholar, and the lab received $250,000 for its research on mpox B cell immunity.
June 2025 – Vishal Rao is awarded a fellowship to attend and give a talk at the Keystone Conference on Vaccinology in Washington, DC.
May 2025 – Vishal Rao receives a travel award to attend the ISV Congress 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa, in October 2025.
May 2025 – Dr. Coelho receives the Rising Star Award from the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS).
May 2025 – Dr. Fantin and Vishal Rao present their research at the AAI Conference in Hawaii.
February 2025 – Dr. Fantin is elected Chair of the 2027 Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Tropical Infectious Diseases.
March 2025 – Our research technician, Hallie Cohn, has been accepted to the Immunobiology Program at the Yale School of Medicine and will begin her PhD studies there in the Fall.
March 2025 – Our research technician, Bailey Bozarth, has been accepted to the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in the Immunology Program and will begin her PhD studies there in the Fall.
January 2025 – Dr. Fantin receives a travel award to Tuscany, Italy, to present her research at the prestigious GRC on Tropical Infectious Diseases and to attend both the GRC and GRS.
October 2024 – Dr. Coelho is listed on the Dean’s Outstanding Faculty list for 2024.
June 2024 – Dr. Coelho is featured in the Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists.
May 2024 – Dr. Coelho is awarded an intramural NIAID grant that will fund her salary and support a visit to Dr. Bernard Moss's lab in Bethesda during the summer of 2024.
May 2024 – Dr. Coelho receives a Faculty Travel Award to attend the 2024 AAI Conference in Chicago.
May 2024 – Dr. Fantin and Dr. Lobo receive trainee travel awards to attend the 2024 AAI Conference in Chicago.
February 2023 - Dr. Coelho is invited to join the Steering Committee on Malaria Vaccines of the USAID as a Federal Advisor.
March 2023 – Our lab receives IOF funding from the HIPC program at NIAID/NIH.
January 2023 – Our lab receives IOF funding from the CCHI program at NIAID/NIH.
October 2022 – Our lab is open! Dr. Coelho is named a Biomedical Laureate Assistant Professor and joins the Center for Vaccine Research and Pandemic Preparedness at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.