September 28, 2022
AFAR News - EDWARD CHOUCHANI, Ph.D. (DANA-FARBER) AND ÖMER YILMAZ, MD, Ph.D. (MIT) RECEIVE 2022 BREAKTHROUGHS IN GERONTOLOGY (BIG) AWARDS FROM THE GLENN FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND AFAR Major awards will support research working toward novel therapeutics addressing metabolism, stem cells, and aging biology to target human aging and healthspan Press Release.
August 2022 - Tenure Awarded!
MIT awards tenure to Angela Koehler, Omer Yilmaz, and Amy Keating. Read more here.
March 2022 KI Image Awards - George Eng. Read more.
Fall 2021 - Spectrum - Stem Cell Research Zeros in on Cancer
August 22, 2019
MIT News - Study links certain metabolites to stem cell function. Molecules called ketones may improve stem cells' ability to regenerate new intestinal tissue. Published in Cell, August 22, 2019. Read more!
April 2019
Welcome Norihio Goto, Ph.D., to the lab as a new Postdoc!
July 2018
We welcome Heaji Shin, Ph.D. to the lab as a new Postdoc!
June 26, 2018
Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Sabri Ülker Center, hosted its 2nd symposium, "Metabolism and Life" and honored Ömer Yilmaz with their 2018 Sabri Ülker Science Award for basic research in metabolism.
May 3, 2018
The Lab's work on stem cell regeneration was featured in MIT News and published in Cell Stem Cell!
March 19, 2018
2018 AAAS Award Winner!
Ömer Yilmaz is named a winner of the 2018 AAAS Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Award. The award honors early-career investigators who have performed outstanding work in the field of cancer research. Read more.
March 2018
From Origami to Organoids: 2018 Image Awards
We are pleased to announce that our own Jatin Roper and Sebastian Santos were a part of a team whose image is honored to be selected as part of the 8th Annual Image Awards Exhibition at the Koch Institute Galleries. Read more.
September 2017
Four Postdocs from Steven Lippard's lab in Chemistry have joined our lab to continue their research now that Professor Lippard is retiring.
We welcome Postdocs, Amanda Hussey, Wen Zhou, Amit Vernekar and Fang Wang.
July 2017
We welcome as a Fellow. MD. PhD. Shinya Imada to our lab.
May 2017
Our work on colon cancer modeling was featured in MIT News and The Scientist.
April 2017
We welcome Postdoc Jonathan Braverman to our lab.
February 2017
Postdoc Naniye Cetinbas received a KI Ludwig postdoctoral fellowship.
January 2017
Our work was featured in the Broad Institute blog "Organoids bring a new dimension to tissue research and engineering."
Link: https://www.broadinstitute.org/blog/organoids-bring-new-dimension-tissue-research-and-engineering
November 2016
Postdoc Chia-Wei Cheng received the prestigious Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellowship.
Link: http://hhwf.org/research-fellowship/
October 2016
Our work was featured on the NIH director's blog.
https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2016/10/27/snapshots-of-life-tales-from-the-intestinal-crypt/
August 2016
Postdoc Miyeko Mana received the prestigious American Cancer Society (ACS), postdoctoral fellowship.
July 2016
Omer presented at the CellPress Webinar entitled "Organoids and beyond - 3D tissue in a dish." Omer and other leaders who are using organoid technologies discussed the "implications for organoids in basic biology, regenerative and personalized medicine while also addressing challenges for the field in accurately recapitulating in vivo complexity as well as crosstalk with other components of the microenvironment."
Webinar Page Link: http://view6.workcast.net/register?cpak=9254404560299943&referrer=cell
June 2016
Omer was named a 2016 Pew-Stewart Scholar. The Pew-Stewart Scholars Program is a national initiative designed to support innovate early-career scientists whose research will accelerate discovery and advance progress to a cure for cancer.
http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/pew-stewart-scholars-for-cancer-research
April 2016
Omer was named a 2016 Sidney Kimmel Scholar, an award granted to the nation's most promising young cancer researchers.
http://kimmel.org/kimmel-scholars/our-scholars/
March 2016
Our article "High-fat diet enhances stemness and tumorigenicity of intestinal progenitors," is published in Nature.
Article Link: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v531/n7592/full/nature17173.html
Preview Link: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v531/n7592/full/531042a.html#close
News Link: http://www.nature.com/news/fat-mice-provide-clue-to-obesity-colon-cancer-puzzle-1.19484
Press Release Links
MIT: http://news.mit.edu/2016/diet-influences-colon-cancer-0302
Whitehead Institute: http://wi.mit.edu/news/archive/2016/high-fat-diet-linked-intestinal-stem...
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: http://www.dana-farber.org/Newsroom/News-Releases/study-explores-how-a-h...
Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2016/03/02/how-a-high-fat-diet-...
Yahoo News: https://news.yahoo.com/high-fat-diet-linked-increased-gut-cancer-risk-12...
The Guardian: http://m.guardian.ng/features/how-high-fat-diet-raises-cancer-risk/
The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/...
Detroit News: http://www.detroitnewstime.com/regional/124388-fatty-foods-cause-boom-in...
Posta (Turkish News): http://www.posta.com.tr/saglik/tipdunyasi/HaberDetay/Turk-bilim-insanlar...
February 2016
Omer was a featured speaker for Gen News' "Current Trends in 3D and Organoid Cell Culture for Cancer Research."
Wednesday February 10, 2016 at 12pm ET
Webinar link: http://www.genengnews.com/webinars/current-trends-in-3d-and-organoid-cel...
January 2016
Congratulations to Postdoctoral fellow Chia-Wei Cheng for being named a 2016 Ludwig Scholar.
July 2015
Omer was awarded a 2015 AFAR Research Grant for Junior Faculty.
October 2014
Omer was awarded a 2014 V Scholar Grant from the Jimmy V foundation. http://www.jimmyv.org/research/grants-awarded/2011-present/
September 2014
The Yilmaz Lab is kicking into full gear and is fully operational. We are all excited to start conducting experiments in a new lab and expect to have a full lab very soon!
The empty lab in February
The lab in September, ready for experimentation