It was so nice to have the @JoungLab annual holiday party last night in person and before the holidays for the first time in three years! We missed those of you who weren't able to join us and thanks so much to Dylan Smith for organizing this special event.

It was one of the most inspiring & heartwarming moments of my professional career to have 21 years of @JoungLab members & alums gather together the other evening to celebrate their accomplishments and the (belated) 20th anniversary of our group. More pictures in tweets below. 1/5

Excited that the latest @JoungLab paper describing split #CRISPR prime editors is out online @NatureBiotech today. This work was led by @grunewaju, Bret Miller, @ReganSzalay with co-authors Peter Cabeceiras, Chris Woodilla @elizajaneholtz @Karl_Petri nature.com/articles/s41587-0… 1/7

Fun & delicious dinner last night at Dovetail with @JoungLab members to celebrate an upcoming paper (more on that soon!) and just because it's summer! So happy & grateful to be able to gather together with everyone in person. Thanks to Dylan for organizing this memorable event.

Incredibly honored to accept the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Medicine earlier this week in Seoul. I am very grateful to all previous and current members of the @JoungLab and our collaborators for all of their work & contributions to the gene editing work recognized by this award. 1/3

Fantastic talk today by @morganlmaeder, Outstanding Investigator Award recipient and @JoungLab alum, at the @ASGCT22 Annual Meeting. Congratulations on this well deserved award. So proud of you and all of the work you've done in our lab, @editasmed, and now @chromamedicine.

Was great to finally (after a ~2.5 year hiatus) have the @JoungLab gather in person on Monday night for our annual summer party. Had a wonderful dinner at Davio's in the Seaport with both current and previous lab members. Thanks to Dylan for organizing this memorable event! (1/3)

Congratulations to @morganlmaeder on this well deserved @ASGCTherapy Outstanding New Investigator award recognizing her important contributions to the field of gene editing!

Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Hsu @jyhsu15 who did a fantastic job defending his thesis today! You've done amazing work over the past 5 years & we will miss you tremendously. But we know you'll go on to do great things! @JoungLab members please post other pics if you have them.

Our department held a pumpkin carving contest yesterday and some members of the @JoungLab won with this pumpkin! I have to admit that my face on a pumpkin is not something I ever imagined I would see...! 😂(Thanks to @ReganSzalay for the pictures.)

This paper required multiple years of hard work. I am proud of & grateful for the persistent efforts of post-doc Esther Tak @taktak309, co-authors @joyehorng @ntperry13 Hayley Schultz @becauseBiology from my lab, & collaborators @freakyao Luli Zou @MartinAryee & @lucapinello. 9/9

Thrilled to share (a few days late) our work describing how to more consistently activate human genes from enhancer and other distal sequences using CRISPR activators (published in Nature Methods nature.com/articles/s41592-0… free link: rdcu.be/csoDt ). In it, we tackle..1/9

Congrats to first-author Esther Tak @taktak309 and co-authors (@joyehorng @ntperry13 Hayley Schultz @becauseBiology @freakyao Luli Zou @MartinAryee @lucapinello) on the publication of our newest paper in Nature Methods (free link: rdcu.be/csoDt). Will tweet summary soon

Excited to share that our collaboration with the labs of Joanna Yeh and @MarcelaMaus of @MGH_RI was published online today in @NatureBiotech describing the use of CRISPR prime editors as ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes in zebrafish and human cells (1/2) xitter.cf/NatureBiotech/status/1…