2025

  • Christina is named one of the 2025 Arthur C. Cope Scholars by the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry! Congratulations Christina!

  • Another Woo Lab Ph.D. in the books! Congratulations to Dr. Farah Kabir!

  • Congratulations to Alison for winning a Poster Prize at the Bioorganic GRC!

  • Congratulations to Dr. Mark Anthony Leon-Duque, the Woo Lab’s latest Ph.D.!

  • A warm welcome to Dr. Dylan Holden, who joins us as our newest postdoctoral fellow!

  • Our undergraduate Dicle Ezgi Ekinci wins the prestigious Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for her senior undergraduate thesis, “Development of Cyclimid Molecular Glues for Targeted Degradation of Oncoproteins”. Congratulations Dicle!

  • Congratulations to Alison for winning the the AAUW (American Association of University Women) American Fellowship and the Most Promising Female Scientist Award at the ACS Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference!

  • Congratulations to our lab’s newest PhD, Dr. Steven Cheng!

  • Farewell to postdoctoral fellow Robert! Best of luck at your new position at Sanofi!

  • Kelvin has been selected as a finalist for the Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship. Congratulations Kelvin!

  • Alison wins the 2025 Women Chemists Committee Merck Research Award. Congratulations Alison!

  • Welcome undergraduate student Audric Adonteng

  • Our collaborative effort with the Mazitschek Lab, Protocol for the comprehensive biochemical and cellular profiling of small-molecule degraders using CoraFluor TR-FRET technology, has been selected as a part of STAR Protocols Editor’s Collection 2024!

  • Steven wins the Medicinal and Bioorganic Chemistry Foundation Student Travel Fellowship! Congrats, Steven!

  • Welcome postdoctoral fellows Dr. Kelvin Pak Shing Cheung and Dr. Amir Nasseri (joint with the Balskus lab, Harvard CCB)

2024

  • Welcome graduate student Sarah Xi and undergraduate Selina Zhang

  • Congratulations and good luck to Dr. Wenqing Xu, PhD 2024

  • Abigail Porter has won the ACS Student Exchange Award for Achievements in the Chemical Sciences and a Most Outstanding Biochemistry/Medicinal Graduate Poster Presentation Award at this year’s NOBCChE Conference. Congratulations Abigail!

  • Welcome undergraduate student Marina Ricker

  • Christina has been granted tenure at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Congratulations, Professor Woo!

  • Woo Lab featured in the Harvard Gazette: “A molecular warhead against disease”

  • Welcome graduate students Ethan Feng, Xavier Tao, and Yuli Li

2023

  • Welcome undergraduate Dicle Ezgi Ekinci

  • Welcome postdoctoral fellow Dr. Tengfang Long

  • Goodbye and good luck to Saki Ichikawa in her new lab at Cornell University

  • Congratulations and good luck to David Miyamoto, PhD 2023

  • Woo Lab featured in the Harvard Gazette: “New approach to slowing aggressive leukemia”

  • Matthew receives the Norris Richards Undergraduate Research Scholarship from NEACS

  • Welcome undergraduate Tiffany Wang

  • Saki receives the Marie Sklodowska Curie Award

  • Vanessa receives the NSF-GRFP. Congratulations Vanessa!

  • Welcome postdoctoral fellow Robert Yvon

  • Welcome graduate students Abigail Porter (Herschel Smith), Abbie Svoysky (NSF-GRFP), and Lucy Yang (NSF-GRFP)

2022

  • Welcome undergraduates Ibrahim Alkuraya, Oliver Rancu

  • Welcome postdoctoral fellow Dr. Qian (Chace) Zhu

  • Congratulations and good luck to Alex West, PhD 2022

  • Christina receives the 2022 Amgen Young Investigator Award

  • Welcome postdoctoral fellow Dr. Zhenguang Zhao

  • Welcome summer students Mayam Abbaz, Jasmine Keys

  • Congratulations and good luck to Zhi Lin, PhD 2022

  • Good bye and good luck to Dacheng and Zhewei

  • Congratulations and good luck to Paul Schwein, PhD 2022

  • Good bye and good luck to Yuka Amako

  • Alison Mody receives the NSF GRFP

  • Welcome graduate student Angel Ni

  • Welcome undergraduate Matthew Su

  • Welcome graduate student Zhewei

2021

  • Welcome graduate students Vanessa Dippon and Anna Soltys

  • Good bye and good luck to Bo, Yun, and Chia-Fu

  • Congratulations and good luck to Hope, PhD 2021

  • Christina receives the David Gin Young Investigator Award

  • Welcome undergraduate Katarina Kitarovic

  • Welcome visiting scientist Toshiaki Sonobe

  • Congratulations and good luck Dan, PhD 2021

  • Congratulations to Steven and Farah, recipients of the NSF-GRFP

  • Welcome to the lab graduate students Nicole Curnutt, Hannah Lloyd, Farah Kabir, and Alison Mody

  • Welcome Zehan Zhou and Spencer Frome

2020

  • Saki receives a JSPS fellowship, congratulations!

  • Good luck to Chanat Aonbangkhen and Ron Ramsubhag 🎉

  • The lab is supported by the Starr Cancer Consortium

  • The lab is supported by the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator

  • Good luck to our graduating seniors Tim, Matt, Amanda, StephanieT, and StephanieW! 👨‍🎓 👩‍🎓

  • Welcome to Dacheng Shen and Konstantin Zouboulis! 🥳

  • Christina receives the Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award 🏆

  • The lab is supported by the NSF CAREER 🎖️

2019

  • Welcome Mark, Wenqing and Steven! 💐

  • Welcome Saki and Nate 🤝

  • Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award 🎊

  • The lab is supported by the NIH U01 Common Fund Award 🎈

  • Welcome Bo, Oscar, and Lara

  • Good luck Larry and Hung-Yi

  • Christina receives a Sloan Research Fellowship

  • Welcome new undergraduate researchers

  • The lab is supported by the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator

2018

  • Welcome new postdoc Yun

  • Christina receives the ICBS Rising Star award

  • NIH DP1 Avenir Award

  • Welcome Nandini and Tim

  • The lab is supported by Ono Pharma Foundation Breakthrough Science Award

  • Good luck Erin and Praveen

  • Graduation – good luck class of 2018

  • Hope receives the NSF-GRFP

  • Welcome Zhi Lin and Carter Nakamoto

  • The lab is supported by the Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience