News

March 2025: Lab dinner to celebrate Nikolai’s completion of Co-op research!



March 2025: Congratulations to us for receiving the Thomas Jefferson University – SKCC cancer center pilot award for prostate cancer immune modulation (collaboration with the Felix Kim lab)

January 2025: Congratulations to us for receiving the Thomas Jefferson University – SKCC cancer center seed award for a universal CAR targeting approach for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (collaboration with the Sara Meyer lab)

January 2025: Warm welcome to Landon Flemming for starting his Co-op research!

November 2024: We are excited to receive the Drexel-Coulter foundation award to develop a translational approach using functional biomaterials for autologous & allogeneic CAR-T cell manufacturing!

September 2024 Dr. Huang receives a Carl June Travel Award at the 9th CAR-TAR Summit!



September 2024 Warm welcome Binlong Chen for starting his PhD study!

July 2024 Warm welcome to Nikolai Przybylski joining us for summer and Co-op research!

April 2024 Dr. Huang gives a seminar at NCI Cancer Moonshot Series, talking about recent updates on precision T cell modulation!

April 2024 Warm welcome to new undergraduate interns Riana, Eshel, and Landon!



December 2023 Our collaboration with the Baetica Lab is awarded for the Carleone seed fund by Drexel!

December 2023 Congratulations to our Summer Intern Omkar Katkade for his admission into Johns Hopkins University! Best wishes to your new journey!

November 2023 Welcome Jaitri for joining us as an undergraduate researcher!

August 2023 Welcome Omkar Katkade as a summer intern to learn T cell biology and single cell sequencing analysis!

Thanksgiving 2023 We had a fun party with our collaborator, the Baetica Lab! Thank you folks for the hard work!



November Our lab is finally organized, and we are ready to begin some exciting experiments!







September 2023 Welcome Yanshan Tao for beginning her PhD study in our lab!

July 2023 Warmly welcome Qinghe Zeng as the first PhD student in Biomedical Science to join our lab!



July 2023 The Huang lab officially starts! We are excited to begin advancing the understanding and technological basis for therapeutic T cells!



June 2023 Dr. Huang was awarded an honorable mention for the abstract titled “Control and enhance CAR-T cells with precisely functionalized biomaterials” in Cellicon Valley ’23: The Future of Cell and Gene Therapies.



June 2023 Dr. Huang did his last T cell experiment at UCSF Cell Design Institute.



October 2022 The lab webpage is finally live! We are announcing graduate student research positions starting in the Fall of 2023! Positions are limited, please contact Dr. Huang xh324@drexel.edu for inquiries.