September 4th, 2023

Caroline has joined the lab as a Postdoc from the Shih-Chung Chang lab at National Taiwan University!

September 1st, 2023

Abigail has joined the lab as a graduate student from the joint Harvard-MIT Medical Engineering and Medical Physics PhD program !

July 3rd, 2023

Jean has joined the lab as a Postbaccalaureate from the Sandra Moldonado's lab at the Universidad de Mayaguez, Puerto Rico!

November 28th, 2022

Nicolás has joined the lab as a Postdoc from the Kalergis Lab at Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile!

August 24th, 2022

Adam

Adam successfully defended his PhDs! Congratulations!

August 5th, 2022

Meredith

Meredith defended her PhDs! Nicely done!

July 27th, 2022

Our manuscript describing the influence of neutralizing antibody subclass on prevention of HIV transmission is now online at Science Translational Medicine and on our publications page!

April 11th, 2022

The interim results of the VRC603 clinical trial testing AAV8-VRC07 in humans is now online at Nature Medicine and on our publications page!

February 23rd, 2022

Check out our recent presentation on humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 at a symposium organized by the Indian National Institute of Immunology:


December 24th, 2021

Our manuscript describing the ability of mRNA booster vaccination to recognize the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is now online at Cell!

December 14th, 2021

We've put our pre-print describing the neutralizing potency of vaccine sera against the Omicron variants up on the website while it is undergoes screening at medRxiv

September 20th, 2021

Lok has joined the lab as a Postdoc from the Diel Lab at Cornell!

September 15th, 2021

Congrats to Meredith on publishing her first review! Now available at Frontiers in Immunology!

July 20th, 2021

Alex has joined the lab from the Harvard Virology program as a PhD student!

Mar 29th, 2021

We're proud to be part of the Sigal Lab's manuscript describing resistance of B.1.351 SARS-CoV-2 to naturally acquired humoral immunity! Now online at Nature!

Mar 12th, 2021

Our manuscript describing resistance of circulating COVID-19 variants to vaccine-induced humoral immunity is now online at Cell!

Feb 17th, 2021

We've put our pre-print describing the neutralizing potency of vaccine sera against COVID-19 variants up on the website while it is undergoes screening at medRxiv

Feb 16th, 2021

Our collaboration with the Kwon lab looking at HIV infection of macrophage was published online in Scientific Reports!

December 22nd, 2020

Our collaboration with the Lingwood lab investigating the IL-6 buffer system was just published online in Immunity!

December 15th, 2020

COVID

Evan and Wilfredo's paper on COVID-19 antibodies and disease severity was just published online in Cell! The result of an awersome collaboration between our lab and MGH Pathology!

December 10th, 2020

Our collaboration with the Wesemann lab characterizing antibodies in COVID patients was just published online in Cell!

December 8th, 2020

The result of a fun collaboration with the Lingwood and Schmidt labs working towards pan-coronavirus neutralizing antibodies was just uploaded to bioRxiv!

November 16th, 2020

Allen

Allen just presented his PhD thesis seminar and defense to the exam committee and been awarded his PhD! Congratulations!

October 30th, 2020

Jackie

Jackie defended her thesis today and has earned her PhD! She did an amazing job with both her seminar and exam! The lab's first (of hopefully many) graduate students to finish!

October 20th, 2020

The pre-print describing our finding linking COVID-19 disease severity to neutralizing antibodies was just put up on MedRxiv

August 17th, 2020

Zeidy has joined the lab as a technician!

August 10th, 2020

Kerri has joined the lab as a technician!

August 8th, 2020

Our paper with Galit's lab describing a SARS-CoV-2-specific ELISA assay was just published in Journal of Immunological Methods.

May 6th, 2020

Our accepted manuscript with the Bloom lab describing a SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus neutralization assay was just published in Viruses.

April 21st, 2020

We just published a Preprint with the Bloom lab describing a SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus neutralization assay today in bioRxiv!

January 8th, 2020

Our collaboration with the Lingwood lab has just been published today in Journal of Proteome Research!

January 6th, 2020

Maegan has joined the lab as a technician!

November 14th, 2019

Our paper helping the Deverman lab identify Ly6A as the receptor for BBB transfer of PHP.B capsid was published online today in PLoS One.

June 12th, 2019

Our paper with Lynn Morris showing AAV-mediated delivery of CAP256 antibody was published today in Molecular Therapy: Methods and Clinical Development!

December 5th, 2018

Hugh's paper on AAV-mediated NHP antibody delivery for SIV prevention was published online today in PLoS Pathogens!

October 1st, 2018

Allen's review of AAV-mediated antibody delivery for HIV treatment and prevention was published online today in Retrovirology!

July 3rd, 2018

Meredith has joined the lab from the Harvard Virology program as a PhD student!

June 6th, 2018

Dylan has joined the lab after graduating from Suffolk University!

May 18, 2018

Yentli has left the lab to become an MD/PhD student at University of Pennsylvania in Philladelphia!

Sept 4, 2017

Adam has joined the lab from the Harvard Virology program as a PhD student!

July 17, 2017

Bonisile is visiting the lab from the laboratory of Thumbi Ndung'u as part of her graduate work.

July 5, 2017

Christine has joined the lab from the Crickmore Lab after graduating from Northeastern University!

June 30, 2017

Chris has left the lab to become a PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis!

June 5, 2017

Scott has joined the lab from the Vaccine Research Center after graduating from Brandeis

Feb 1, 2017

Jackie's review of antibody gene transfer for HIV prevention was published online today in Current Opinion in Immunology!

January 30, 2017

Jackie's review of vectored antibody delivery was published today in Immunological Reviews!

June 20, 2016

Yentli has joined the lab from the Ploss lab at Princeton.

May 20, 2016

Ben has left the lab to become an MD/PhD student at UT Southwestern! We wish him the best

April 18, 2016

Evan has joined the lab from the laboratory of Welkin Johnson at Boston College

April 15, 2016

We have received a Transformative Research Scholars Award from the Department of Medicine at MGH!

January 21, 2016

We have received a Research Scholars Award for HIV research from Gilead Sciences!

January 19, 2016

Martin has joined the lab from the laboratory of Eric Hunter program for his postdoctoral fellowship!

Aug 21, 2015

Allen has joined the lab from the Harvard Systems Biology program as a co-advised PhD student with the Chakraborty lab at MIT!

Aug 10, 2015

Jackie has joined the lab from the Harvard BBS program for her PhD research!

July 23, 2015

Cailin's other review of vectored antibody delivery for a range of applications (beyond HIV) was published online today in Current Opinion in Immunology!

June 26, 2015

NIH/NIDA has announced that we have been awarded an Avenir New Innovator (DP2) Grant!

See the posting on the Ragon Institute website for more details.

Jun 2, 2015

Roy and Hilena have joined the lab for the Ragon Summer Research Program

Feb 24, 2015

Cailin's review of VIP for HIV was published online today in Current Opinion in HIV & AIDS! It will be available in print in the May issue.

Sept 17th, 2014

Our collaborators have published the use of antibodies to treat established Hepatitis C infection in Science Translational Medicine!

Aug 26th, 2014

Cailin's graduate work describing VIP for Malaria was published online today in PNAS!

July 2nd, 2014

Henry has graciously agreed to serve as our Lab Mascot!

June 12th, 2014

Cailin, Ben and TJ have joined the Balazs lab!

Mar 24th, 2014

Chris has joined the Balazs lab as a technician! Welcome!

Mar 6th, 2014

Our paper was featured on the Nature Medicine Podcast!

Scroll to 18:35 for the start of our segment

Feb 9th, 2014

Our new paper showing that VIP can protect against vaginal HIV transmission is published online!

January 9th, 2014

The Balazs lab opens at the Ragon Institute!

June 9th, 2013

Broad protection against influenza infection by vectored immunoprophylaxis in mice

This Week in Virology (TWiV) 236: Flu gets the VIP treatment
 
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January 18th, 2013
Huffington Post:

The Huffington Post - News Story

November 5th, 2012

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Advances in Humanized Mice Symposia - Harvard Medical School:


November 30th, 2011

Antibody based protection against HIV infection by Vectored Immunoprophylaxis.


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November 30th, 2011
Caltech:


NBC4 Southern California News:

InsiderMedicine:



Audio
This Week in Virology #168 - Super CalTech prophylaxis

JAX Podcast - Interview with Dr. Balazs


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