July 2020: Funded! First R01 and DDRCC Pilot and Feasibility grants.

August 2020: We welcome Atika Malique joining the lab!

September 2020: Funded! Second R01 and Pfizer grants.

November 2020: Funded! Umang receives ICTS Clinical and Translational Research Funding Program (CTRFP) grant and Pakula IBD Fellowship fund.

March 2021: Congratulations to Umang for his paper in Science with the Stappenbeck lab!

May 2021: Both EBioMedicine and Cell Host Microbe papers published!

July 2021: Welcome Shengxiang to the lab!

October 2021: Welcome Jennifer to the lab!

December 2021: Welcome Miki to the lab!

April 2022: Welcome Richa to the lab!

April 2022: Funded! Rainin Foundation Innovator Award

May 2022: Welcome Amanda to the lab!

October 2023: Welcome Chen-Ting to the lab!

October 2023: R01 funded!

October 2023: Our collaborative work on Paneth cell subtyping with Dr. Nan Gao’s lab is published in EMBO!

December 2023: Congratulations to Chen-Ting on his fellowship!

January 2024: Our work on environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) mouse model is published in Science Translational Medicine, and reported in Newsweek and MSN!