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April 18, 2023
Jinyoung lee, phd
Congratulations to Jinyoung for receiving the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) Postdoctoral Fellowship that will support her work on senescence and the tumor microenvironment!
February 10, 2023
Congratulations to Nancy for being awarded the Bakar Aging Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship that will support her work on deciphering pathways that drive inflammaging!
December 16, 2022
The lab went to an interactive virtual reality exhibit at the Palace of Fine Arts and ate burgers and milkshakes for our annual holiday outing. We had so much fun!
December 5, 2022
Soledad was awarded the UCSF-CIRM Scholars Research Training Program fellowship for stem cell and gene therapy projects. Congrats!!
December 1, 2022
Congrats to Soledad for sharing her work on senescent cells and aging with the Timepie Lecture Series, a Chinese anti-aging podcast! Access the recording here.
November 7, 2022
Nancy gave an amazing presentation at the UCSF Annual Pulmonary Division Research Retreat!
October 26, 2022
Soledad gave a wonderful presentation for the Molecular Genetics Seminar Series at Ohio State University!
August 7-12, 2022
Soledad and Nancy cooling off after a long day of science at FASEB The Lung Epithelium Conference: in Health and Disease, Saxtons River, Vermont
April 24, 2022
Lab members welcomed baby Fatima at Soledad’s baby shower. We had fun decorating onesies for her!
March 20, 2022
Happy birthday Nancy! The lab celebrated with a delicious cake!
February 25, 2022
Happy Birthday Jinyoung! The lab celebrated Jinyoung’s birthday with a delicious pear cake!
December 10, 2021
The Peng Lab team hit the city to celebrate the holidays! It was a fantastic afternoon for a banh mi picnic, followed by an immersive experience at the Asian Art Museum’s teamlab: Continuity exhibition.
August 19, 2021
Enormous congratulations to Soledad on receiving the UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. We can’t wait to see what you do next!
August 4, 2021
Congratulations to Nancy on receiving a fundable score on her NRSA Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32) application! We can’t think of anyone who deserves it more!
APRIL 19, 2021
The Peng Lab family just got a little bigger! Congratulations to Soledad and Miguel on their marriage, and thanks for sending us the Zoom link!
December 10, 2020
Celebrating a very unique 2020 with virtual chocolate tasting with Peng lab and others.
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Potential Inhalable treatments enhance lung regeneration in pulmonary fibrosis model. Read More →
August 7, 2020
Big congratulation to Monica! Her paper “Gli1+ mesenchymal stromal cells modulate epithelial metaplasia in lung fibrosis” got accepted by Nature Cell Biology!
July 16, 2020
Congrats Jinyoung on obtaining National Research Foundation of Korea fellowship!! We are so proud of you.
June 17, 2020
A big welcome to our new technician, Rose (Minqi) Zhou. Rose is excited to introduce her new lab members to her dog (Jimmy) and her cat (Ocean).
June 12, 2020
Check out the preprint of Soledad’s manuscript “Sentinel p16INK4a+ cells in the basement membrane form a reparative niche in the lung”, where she describes a surprising role for p16+ cells using our novel reporter.
June 8, 2020
In collaboration with Hal Chapman's group, we have described the transdifferentiation of human AEC2s into basal cells during alveolar repair. Check out the preprint here!
June 4, 2020
We had some special guests from The Sweet Farm at our zoom lab meeting this week! They are providing virtual farm tours during this time of social distancing.
November 14, 2019
Read our recent preprint: “Gli1+ mesenchymal stromal cells modulate epithelial metaplasia in lung fibrosis”!
September 2019
Three talented undergraduates from UC Berkeley began working in the lab as research assistants. Welcome, Purvi, Albert, and Rose!
August 22, 2019
The newest addition to our lab - Victor Miguel! Congratulations Soledad & Miguel!
March 23, 2019
The lab attended the West Coast Society of Developmental Biology meeting in Cambria, CA. Soledad gave a talk on mesenchymal senescence in the lung and won the award for best postdoctoral presentation. Congratulations, Soledad!
December 8, 2018
The Peng and Looney Labs had their holiday party!
November 9, 2018
The lab attended the Developmental and Stem Cell Biology retreat in Santa Cruz. Chaoqun, Soledad, and Monica presented posters.
August 18-24, 2018
Tien, Chaoqun, and Soledad attended the Gordon Research Conference on Tissue Niches and Resident Stem Cells in New Hampshire. Chaoqun gave a talk on Hedgehog stromal expansion and Soledad and Chaoqun presented posters.
July 6, 2018
Graphical Abstract for Chaoqun's paper
Chaoqun's paper on Hedgehog stromal expansion was accepted to the Journal of Clinical Investigation!
June 26, 2018
Chaoqun was awarded a 3 year postdoctoral fellowship from the Tobacco Related Disease Research Program!
April 23, 2018
Soledad gave a talk on the stromal contribution to the aging lung at the UCSF Pulmonary Research Conference.
March 19, 2018
Chaoqun presented his research at the UCSF Pulmonary Research Conference in a talk titled "Expansion of hedgehog activation disrupts stromal identity and induces emphysema"
February 1, 2018
Congratulations to Soledad for receiving the F32 award from the NHLBI, and Tien for receiving the Tobacco Related Disease Research Program New Investigator Award!
December 16, 2017
The Peng, Shum, and Looney Labs held their annual joint holiday party!
October 28, 2017
The lab attended the UCSF Biomedical Sciences retreat in Lake Tahoe. Tien gave a talk on the maintenance of cellular diversity in the adult lung.
September 28, 2017
Sean De La O joined the lab for the fall as a rotating graduate student from UCSF's Developmental & Stem Cell Biology program.
June 16, 2017
Goodbye party for our research associate, Becky! She will begin medical school at Temple University in the fall.
February 1, 2017
Soledad starts her Postdoc! She completed her PhD on pre-implantation development at UC Irvine and will now begin studying aging in the lung.
October 31, 2016
Pulmonary department Halloween party!
October 4, 2016
Peng Lab receives NIH award to study aging in the mesenchyme. Read More →