July, 2025

• PhD student Meera awarded VP&S Bridge Funding for T32.

• Chung lab contributes to this amazing study led by Shan Zha and Chaolin Zhang’s group.

  Zhu et al. Ku limits RNA-induced innate immunity to allow Alu expansion in primates, Nature, 2025.

April, 2025 

• PhD student Meera passes her qualifying exam! 

• Yuanjun Yin starts his rotation in the lab. 

• Lab dinner at La Salle Dumpling Room. Farewell to Dr. Tyler Dorrity and Claire He! Tyler wish you the best teaching at The College of New Jersey. Claire wish you the best pursuing your PhD at Yale University Chemistry program! 

March, 2025 

• Mahabub Alam starts his rotation in the lab. 

January, 2025 

• Hachung awarded the Irma T. Hirschl Award! Thank you to the Hirschl Trust Research Awards for your generous support. 

2024

December, 2024 

• Secret Santa unveiling and lab dinner at Jacob’s Pickles. Lab also welcomes a new Nespresso machine! At dinner we are forever haunted by the bacon-garnished beer. 

October, 2024

• Halloween pumpkin carving was a blast!

September, 2024

• We are grateful to be a part of Project ALS (https://projectals.org/) and for your generous support! 

July, 2024

• 1st Chung lab retreat was held at Pocono Mountains, PA from 7/21-7/23. We had lab meeting in a home theater, hiked, barbecued, and had lots of ice-cream! Also played minigolf. 

• Hachung Chung lab and Anna Lena-Steckelberg lab jointly awarded the RNA Initiative Pilot grant from the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center! Congratulations! 

• MD.PhD student Jake Gertie awarded the F31 fellowship from the NIH/NINDS. 

June, 2024

• PhD students Meera and Aidan join the Chung lab! We are excited to have you with us!

May, 2024

• A new doctor has been made! Congrats Dr. Tyler Dorrity on your successful thesis defense and graduation!!!

March, 2024

• PhD students Aidan Jones and Raymond Zou start their rotations! Welcome Aidan & Ray!

January, 2024 

• PhD student Meera Singh starts her rotation in the lab. Welcome Meera!

• Review article published from the lab. Love the title! 

  TJ Dorrity H Shin, JA Gertie, H Chung. The Sixth Sense: Self-nucleic acid sensing in the brain”, Advances in Immunology, 2024 

2023

November, 2023

• Two papers in one month! Check them out:

  • Shin H, Chung H. SMPDL3A links cholesterol metabolism to the cGAS-STING pathway. Immunity.

  • Dorrity TJ, Chung H. A tale of two pathways: Two distinct mechanisms of ADAR1 prevent fatal autoinflammation. Mol Cell.

October, 2023

• Lab’s first paper:

  Dorrity TJ & Shin H et al Long 3'UTRs predispose neurons to inflammation by promoting immunostimulatory double-stranded RNA formation. Sci Immunol.

September, 2023

• We welcome PhD student Laura Rodriguez-Bonilla as she starts her rotation in the lab.

June, 2023

• We welcome all summer interns: Amanda Leone (Columbia College), Kavya Batra (Columbia MA in biotechnology), Claire He (Columbia College), and Rafan Sarker (The Bronx High School of Science)!

May, 2023

• Congratulations to MD. PhD. student Jake Gertie for passing his qualifying exam with flying colors!

January, 2023

• PhD student Christine Wu (Microbiology & Immunology program) starts her rotation in the lab! Welcome Christine!

2022

October, 2022

• H. Chung lab goes on a hiking trip to Hudson Highlands State Park. We picked the perfect day. Fall foliage was beautiful!!

September, 2022

• Nadia Karber (Columbia College) joins the lab as an undergraduate intern! Welcome Nadia!

• The whole lab heads to Tappan Hill Mansion to attend the 2022 Microbiology & Immunology Department retreat!

August, 2022

• MD. PhD. Student Jake A. Gertie joins the lab! Welcome Jake!

• PhD student Tyler Dorrity gave a fantastic talk at the FASEB conference ‘RNA Associated Mechanisms Conference: In Immunity and Disease (Steamboat Springs, CO).’ Hachung spoke at the conference too!

June, 2022

• Huge congrats to the lab for receiving an R01 from NINDS (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

April, 2022

• PhD student Lisa Yu begins her rotation with H. Chung Lab! Welcome, Lisa!

2021

September, 2021

• Hachung presents our on-going work at the Lupus 21st Century Conference in Tucson, Arizona!

• PhD student Michael James starts his rotation in the lab! Welcome, Michael!

• Tyler Dorrity wins poster award at the M&I Retreat. Congratulations, Tyler!

June, 2021

• H. Chung lab’s new laboratory technician, Kenenni, joins the lab!

• Columbia University MD-PhD student, Jake Gertie, starts his rotation in the lab! Welcome, Jake!

• Columbia University undergraduate students Ava Rotondo and Amanda Leone begin their summer internships in the H.Chung Lab!

Spring, 2021

• Rachel and Justin were accepted to multiple graduate programs! Rachel will attend The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences and Justin will attend Harvard University. Both will be pursuing a PhD in Biology.

2020

October, 2020

• Hachung’s post-doc mentor Charles Rice wins the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to hepatitis C research!

August, 2020

• Chung lab’s first post-doc Heegwon Shin joins the team!

July, 2020

• Congratulations Tyler Dorrity for receiving the NIH T32 fellowship!

May, 2020

• Justin Aruda graduates from Columbia College with Departmental Honors in Biological Sciences. Congratulations!

April, 2020

• Congratulations Hachung for receiving the Searle Scholar Award!

2019

September, 2019

• Chung lab’s first graduate student Tyler Dorrity joins the team!

• Justin Aruda, a Columbia College student, joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher!

June, 2019

• Chung lab’s first technician Rachel Polfer joins the lab!

May, 2019

• Congratulations Hachung for receiving the Junior Faculty Grant from Columbia University!

March, 2019

• The Chung lab is officially open!!