Welcome Debbie!

The Beck lab is excited to welcome Deborah Hernandez to the lab as our new lab manager!

New publication from the lab!

We are proud that our collaboration with Dr. Neal Young’s group studying inflammatory signals in VEXAS syndrome has been published! Please check out the link below: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37586319/.

Welcome Mei-Kay and Brecca!

We are excited to welcome both Mei-Kay Wong, a new genetic counselor for the laboratory and Brecca Miller, a shared PhD study with Dr. Kelly Ruggles! Welcome aboard the team.

UBA1 and Clonal Hematopoiesis- New Publication

We are proud of our recently published paper “Spectrum of clonal hematopoiesis in VEXAS syndrome” outlining the co-occurrence and clinical importance of CH mutations in VEXAS syndrome. This was an exciting collaboration with colleagues from the NIH and Mayo Clinic, and very appreciative of the team work.

Congratulations to Sam for Fulbright Award!

Congratulation to Sam for being awarded a Fulbright award to study in Israel with Dr. Aaron Ciechanover at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology as part of a collaboration! Wonderful news!

Arthritis National Research Foundation Funding

We are excited to be supported by the Arthritis National Research Foundation to better understand arthritis in models of autoinflammatory disease!

Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation Research Award!

We are excited to announce that we have been awarded an Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation Research Award! Thank you for the support, we are eager to tackle some of the genetic discovery in acquired bone marrow failure syndromes.

VEXAS syndrome on CNN

We are proud to be highlighted on a piece about VEXAS syndrome and our recent JAMA study on CNN. We are hoping that this will raise awareness about the disease given its prevalence, and severity.

 

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/24/health/vexas-syndrome-prevalence-study-wellness/index.html

Our collaborative work published in JAMA!

Very proud to see our work as a collaboration between NYU, NIH, and Geisinger published in JAMA today. We show the prevalence, penetrance and expressivity of VEXAS syndrome and help better define the disease. Congratulations to the team!

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Jeffrey Modell Foundation

We are excited and thankful for our work being selected for a Jeffrey Modell Foundation Translational Research Program Grant Award.