News and Updates

August 2023

Lab update: we’ve grown!

It’s been an incredible first 18 months growing the lab at Penn and CHOP. Very excited to have welcomed Kat Mueller and Yingshi Chen (postdocs), Rob Hapke (MD/PhD student), Faith Ryu (Penn undergrad), and more recently, Gab Zuern (technician), and Jeremy Grenier (Peds/onc clinical fellow). Also, a special shoutout to our former rockstar technician Brett Mozarsky who recently started med school at Harvard. We’ll miss him, but big things lie ahead in Boston!

Looking forward to updating the world on some of our work in the coming months at CAR-TCR Summit, Jonas Center Cellular Therapy Symposium, SITC, and ASH. Stay tuned!

Lab meetings and CAR Club are now in session :)

June 2022

Welcome new lab members!

An official welcome to CAMB PhD student Jose Arias-Umana, who recently finished his rotation and will be joining the lab for his dissertation work, and to our CAMB PhD rotation student Geoff Rouin. Also excited to welcome Brett Mozarsky and Martina Markovska who have joined the lab as research assistants. More lab members on the way, so stay tuned!

July 2022

Weber Lab awarded grant from the V Foundation

We are honored to receive a Translational Grant from the V Foundation to develop engineering-based approaches to enhance the persistence of CAR-T cells, and perform epigenetic analyses on CAR-T cells from patients with durable CAR-T persistence. More info can be found here: https://www.v.org/grants-awarded/to/evan-weber-phd/

February 2022

The Weber Lab is open for business

November 2021

SITC Rosenberg Scholars Award

Evan was awarded the SITC Steven A. Rosenberg Scholars Award given to early career scientists focused on cancer immunotherapy. This award will fund the lab’s efforts to develop novel approaches to enhance T cell therapies for cancer.

October 2021

The Weber Lab officially opens its doors in February 2022 at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine!

For those interested in applying for a position, please email Evan Weber directly at weberew@chop.edu