News — Eguchi Lab

News from the Lab

May 16, 2025

Elaine Lai receives second place for Judges’ Choice Poster Award at the School of Medicine Grad Day event.

May 16, 2025

Fiona Lau, Hung Doan, and Rongruo Zhang present their research at the Undergraduate Research Symposium.

May 9, 2025

Elaine Lai is selected as the 2024-2025 Katherine and Robert Phalen Fellow. She receives a $3,000 stipend for the recognition.

May 6, 2025

Elaine Lai (PhD student, Eguchi lab) and Lan Weiss, MD, PhD (Project Scientist, Kimonis lab) have been awarded the MAXIMUS Seed Grant on “Optimizing Muscle-Specific Promoters in iPSC-Derived Myotubes for VCP Disease Gene Therapy.” This seed grant provides $5,000 for a collaborative project between two labs. The goal of this study is to compare various promoters currently in preclinical and clinical trials in human iPSC-myotubes bearing a missense mutation in Valosin-Containing Protein (VCP). While these selected promoters have shown promising results in mouse models, their efficacy in human cells with disease-causing mutations are unknown. This collaborative project will generate data that will guide the design of gene therapies for VCP.

April 24, 2025

The lab celebrates recent accomplishments at Crystal Cove Beach.

April 10, 2025

Abbey Keegan gives a talk at the MAXIMUS T32 Retreat for muscle biology. Rongruo Zhang, Elaine Lai, Fiona Lau, and Hung Doan present posters.

April 8, 2025

Elaine Lai and Abbey Keegan receive Honorable Mention for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

March 19, 2025

Asuka Eguchi presents on modeling cardiac arrhythmias in Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy at the Muscular Dystrophy Association Clinical & Scientific Conference. At the MDA’s 75th Celebration, she gets her portrait done.

February 12, 2025

Elaine Lai, Abbey Keegan, Hung Doan, Fiona Lau, and Rongruo Zhang present at the Stem Cell Research Center Symposium. Abbey Keegan is recognized with a poster award.