Lab in the News
September, 2024: Student news article on Yale Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN) site
September, 2024: Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists (Featuring Nicole Lake – Recent Lab Alumni)
September, 2024: Yale named as one of the new NIH Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN) sites
October, 2022: Receiving CZI Science Diversity Leadership Award in 2022
October, 2022: Rare Disease BioScience Nonprofit Will Depart Boston for Greater New Haven (Featuring Kaiyue Ma and Shushu Huang)
July, 2022: Shushu Huang – Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Development Grant
June, 2022: Decoding the genetics of rare disease: an interview with Monkol Lek
June, 2022: SFARI workshop explores mitochondrial dysfunction in autism (Featuring Nicole Lake)
June, 2022: Unlocking the mitochondrial genome for autism research (Featuring Nicole Lake)
May, 2022: Single Cell Analysis Technologies Help Generate Unprecedented Maps of Disease
February, 2022: International Day of Women and Girls in Science: MDA’s Spotlight on Dr. Angela Lek
November, 2021: Muscular Dystrophy Association Names Angela Lek as Vice President for Research
September, 2021: CZI Award $3 Million to Researchers to Build Pediatric Cell Atlas of Skeletal Muscle
August, 2021: Yale Geneticist With Rare Disease to Build Pediatric Cell Atlas of Skeletal Muscle
July, 2021: 2021 Best Poster Award goes to Alec DeSimone
April, 2021: Team Led by Monkol Lek Advances Past Pre-IND Phase with DMD Gene Therapy
February, 2021: Overcoming Obstacles: Building a Successful Career in an Inaccessible World (Featuring Justin Cohen)
December, 2020: MDA Portraits of Ability Campaign
November, 2020: Global Genes Rare Champion of Hope 2000 Awardee
May, 2020: COVID-19 Update from AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar Monkol Lek
April, 2020: Nonprofit Muscular Dystrophy Association seeks donations during pandemic
December, 2019: Ways to make meetings accessible
November, 2019: Justin Cohen: Living With FSHD, And Efforting To Find A Cure
October, 2019: Advocacy in a lab coat: Patients play a role in every aspect of research (Page 11 – Featuring Justin Cohen)
June, 2019: Researcher with FSHD Awarded MDA Funding to Discover New Therapies for the Disease (Featuring Justin Cohen)
January, 2019: Nicole Lake – American Australian Association Qantas Scholar 2019
July, 2018: Chris Carrino on the inspiration of daily living (Featuring Justin Cohen)
June, 2018: All in the genes (Featuring Nicole Lake)
February, 2018: The University of Tartu announced three scholarship recipients at the anniversary event (Featuring Sander Pajusalu)
My Journey with Muscular Dystrophy into Academia
“Taking control of our genetic destiny” on TEDx Sydney 2019
“Yale researcher became a geneticist to help fight his own rare disease” on New Haven Register
“Yale School of Medicine rare disease researcher is also a patient” on Yale Medicine Magazine
“Interview with Daniel MacArthur and Monkol Lek” on Broad Ignite Podcast
An article in Chinese that students from Prof Hongwen Zhou’s lab wrote about my journey