May 3, 2016
Congratulations, Boss, on your election to the National Academy of Sciences!!!

August 2017

  • On our last day as HHMI employees, we thank the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the staff of the HHMI Caltech Office of Administrative Services -- Chris Schuld, Angel Rooker, Stefany Nielsen, and Michael Werner (wherever he may be) -- for their support and assistance over the years.  We had a great time!  Rati Verma, Rob Oania, Heenam Park, Daphne Shimoda on August 4, 2017.

May 2017

  • Congratulations and best wishes to the Boss on his new position as Senior VP of Discovery Research at Amgen!

April 2017

  • Congratulations to Liang Xue on his new position at Principal Scientist for Discovery Research at Pfizer!
  • Farewell and best wishes to Min-Kyung Sung.  Do well in your new job as a Senior Manager at LG!

March 2017

  • Congratulations to Craig Crews and the teams at Proteolix, Onyx, and Amgen who contributed to the development of Kyprolis. In news released on 28 February, Amgen announced that Kyprolis conferred an additional 7.6 months of survival compared to Velcade, when both agents are administered to relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma patients along with dexamethasone. This is terrific news for patients.

February 2017

  • Congratulations to Xing Liu on getting an offer for an Assistant Professorship at Purdue University!
  • Congratulations to Thang Nguyen on acceptance of his paper in PNAS!

January 2017

  • A belated welcome to our new rotation student, Angel Galvez Merchan!
  • Congratulations to Jing Li on acceptance of his paper at Nature Chemical Biology!

November 2016

  • Congratulations to Min-Kyung Sung For receiving a  job offer from LG!  (Life is good!)

September 2016

  • Welcome to David Sherman, our new postdoc!

August 2016

  • Congratulations to Min-Kyung Sung for acceptance of his Tom 1 paper at eLife!

July 2016

  • Congratulations to Min-Kyung Sung and co-author Justin Reitsma on publication of their paper in Molecular Biology of the Cell!
  • Congratulations to Liang Xue and co-authors Emily Blythe, Jennifer Mamrosh, and Justin Reitsma on publication of their paper in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics!

June 2016

  • Good luck to Oscar Padilla as he returns to medical training.
  • Congratulations to Jennifer Mamrosh on being selected as a recipient of a Life Sciences Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship.
  • Welcome to Amgen SURF scholar Courtney Sparger and our new part-time summer lab helper, Ethan Deshaies.

March 2016

  • Congratulations to Ruzbeh Mosadeghi for his eLife paper, with important contributions from Kurt Reichermeier, Yaru Zhang and Justin Reitsma.
  • Congratulations to Thang Van Nguyen for his Molecular Cell paper, complete with a Preview and an "Editor's Choice" in Science Signaling!
  • Welcome to Caltech student Anusha Nathan and rotation student Yitong Ma.

October 2015

  • Welcome to our new postdocs Yaru Zhang and Jennifer Mamrosh.
  • Welcome to new rotation student Andrew Patterson.

July 2015

  • Welcome to Oscar Padilla, our new HHMI Medical Fellow.

June 2015

  • Welcome back to Kurt Reichermeier, our former visiting scholar who has now joined the lab.
  • Congratulations and farewell to Ruzbeh Mosadeghi, who graduated with his Ph.D. and is returning to USC to complete the requirements for his M.D.

April 2015

  • Welcome to new rotation students Xiawei Huang, Stephanie Threatt and Kurt Reichermeier.
  • Welcome to lab visitor Ronny Straube.

March 2015

  • Welcome to lab visitor Radoslav Enchev.
  • Congratulations to the former PROTEOLIX team for the recently reported success of carfilzomib in demonstrating superiority over bortezomib in the ENDEAVOR trial.

February 2015

  • Congratulations, Liang Xue, on your new position as Scientist at Celgene!

January 2015

  • Congratulations, Willem den Besten, on the start of your new position at Genentech.  Good luck!  We'll miss you!

November 2014

  • Congratulations to Willem den Besten on accepting a Senior Research Associate position at Genentech!

October 2014

  • Congratulations to lab alumnus Tsui-Fen Chou!  The FDA has approved an Investigational New Drug application for CB-5083 to begin testing in patients with solid tumors.  CB-5083 is derived from ML240, which Tsui-Fen co-developed when she was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02243917?term=cb-5083&rank=1
  • A belated welcome to undergraduate Namita Ravi and rotation student Junyue Cao, who have been hard at work in the lab through the Fall.

August 2014

July 2014

  • Congratulations, Senthil, on assuming your new position as "The Boss" at Virginia Commonwealth!  

June 2014

  • Welcome to summer SURF students SangAh Lee from GIST and Minsoo Kim from Caltech!
  • We welcome graduate student Emily Blythe as the newest member of the Deshaies Lab!

April 2014

  • Congratulations to Senthil on accepting an offer of a tenure-track Assistant Professorship at Virginia Commonwealth University!

February 2014

  • Congratulations to Justin on being awarded a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fellow Award!
  • Congratulations to lab alumnus Anjanabha Saha on his new position at Nurix!

January 2014

  • Congratulations to Narimon Honarpour on the publication of his paper in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics!
  • Congratulations to Senthil on the publication of his paper in eLife!
  • Congratulations to Senthil on the selection of his paper by Faculty of 1000!

November 2013

  • Congratulations to Senthil on the acceptance of his paper by eLife!

October 2013

  • Congratulations to Natalie Kolawa on the publication of her paper in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics!
  • Congratulations to lab alumnus Dane Mohl on his new position at Amgen!