New Year New Lab Members!
Welcoming our newest lab members Jeremy Morrissette who is an MD PhD candidate betting his scientific career on our lab and Marie-Christin Hoffman who is a visiting medical student from Saarland University in Germany. We’re excited to have our newest additions to our scientific family.
It takes a village…
Here in the Canna Lab, we believe that Team Work Makes The Dream Work. When your PI tells you that you need to obtain over 100 samples worth of information, the Canna Lab doesn’t hesitate to come together to support one another. Cause when you’re here, you’re family (without the endless breadsticks).
CHOP Research Symposium
Canna Lab takes on the CHOP Research Symposium with Scott presenting some awesome data on HLH Susceptibility and T cell hyperactivity in the context of IL-18. Vinh also presented his work as a poster on IL-18’s effect on mixed inflammatory environments!
Sizzling Summer Science
We’re expanding for the summer! Leonardo Huang will be hanging out full-time and hammering on an inflammasome assay. Alex May, undergraduate from Haverford College, will be joining us to help accelerate our immune synapse studies. Junior Nguyen will be starting as a new technician in June
Please check us out on Twitter for more timely updates and presentations by lab members
Vinh at the Autumn Immunology Conference (AIC 2021)!
Congratulations to our very own technician Vinh Dang who was given a travel award thanks to the Multiple Sclerosis Society to attend the Autumn Immunology Conference in Chicago. Glad to see old friends Darryl Abbott and Dr. Tim Hand!
Welcoming our New Lab Members!
We’re glad to have Leonardo Huang, a 2nd year undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania working with us as well as our newest Post-doctoral fellow Dr. Anastasia Frank-Kamenetskii who comes to us from the Windy City of Chicago! Dr. Frank-Kamenetskii received her PhD in Bioengineering from Clemson University and performed a Post-doctoral fellowship at Northwestern University studying the pathogenesis of Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC). The Canna Lab is excited to have both new members in our lab!
Look for us at PAS
The Pediatric Academic Society Annual meeting is coming up on April 30th- through May 4th, 2021. As part of a session entitled “Demystifying Immune Dysregulation” on Sunday May 2nd, Dr. Canna will speak on “Autoinflammation: What is it and how is it helpful.” This session will include contributions by Dr. Eric Allenspach at Seattle Children’s, Dr. Megan Cooper of Washington University (WUSTL), and CHOP’s own Dr. Ed Behrens, co-lead of the CHOP Immune Dysregulation Program.
The (prodigal?) return to CHOP
Setting roots in Philadelphia
Dr. Canna got his wet lab feet wet as a Rheumatology fellow in the Behrens Lab. After some very formative years in Bethesda at the NIAMS, and then launching the Canna Lab in Pittsburgh, we’ve returned to The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to continue our work on Macrophage Activation Syndrome - now with deadly focus on IL-18. Dr. Canna also becomes an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and a member of the Penn Institute for Immunology, both in the Perelman School of Medicine.
Dr. Canna will also join the incredible group of physician-investigators in the Immune Dysregulation Program & Division of Rheumatology, and assitant professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
If YOU are interested in joining us here in Philly, see how you can Join the Lab .
Farewell Pittsburgh
It all begins with an idea.
Even if Scott was born in Philly, The Canna lab was born in Pittsbugh. It started off with Just Dr. Canna and then research technician Eric Weiss. They slowly grew to include Dr. Paul Tsoukas, Corinne Schneider, Dr. Lauren Van Der Kraak, Shreya Desikan, Justin Nemec, Emily Rapp, Vinh Dang, Jemy Varghese, and Lindsey Spiker. Together they worked hard to keep the science moving even during a pandemic, and we couldn’t be more grateful for the support and encouragement we got from everyone at The University of Pittsburgh Department Immunology (where Scott will retain an adjunct faculty appointment) and UPMC Children’s. We especially miss our neighbors in the Poholek lab, Hand lab, and Campfield lab.
Congratulations Dr. Van Der Kraak
It all begins with an idea.
Welcome to the world Seth (Left) and Colette (Right)! The Canna Lab is known for both producing awesome science and awesome babies!