Lab News

  • ASGCT annual meeting 2026, Boston, logo.

    Congratulations to Ellie for receiving the Excellence in Research Award and to Carson for receiving a Meritorious Abstract Travel Award from ASGCT

    March 16, 2026

  • Headshot of Christian.

    Congratulations to Christian for receiving the School of Medicine Dean's Award for Research Excellence

    February 6, 2026

  • Precision Genomic Collaboratory graphic image.

    Congratulations to Anish for receiving a Duke School of Medicine Biomedical PhD Student Pilot Grant through the Precision Genomic Collaboratory

    August 8, 2025

  • Atrium of the Duke Children's Hospital.

    Congratulations to Danai for receiving the Duke School of Medicine International Dean's Scholarship award

    July 29, 2025

  • Duke Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering logo.

    Congratulations to Chanell for being awarded an NIH T32 Biotechnology Training Grant Fellowship from the Duke Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering

    June 23, 2025

  • ASGCT annual meeting 2025, New Orleans, logo.

    Congratulations to Sam for receiving an Outstanding Poster Award at the ASGCT 28th Annual Meeting and for having his poster highlighted in The Vector newsletter

    June 11, 2025

  • New Orleans street.

    Congratulations to Carson, Helen, Christian, and Mia who were selected to give talks at the annual ASGCT meeting in New Orleans.

    May 7, 2025

  • Headshot of Dahlia.

    Congratulations to Dahlia for receiving the Duke Biomedical Engineering Departmental Dissertation Award

    April 18, 2025

  • Duke Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering logo.

    Congrats to Gabe and Sam for receiving the 2025 CBTE Postdoctoral Achievement Award and Student Achievement Award, respectively

    April 18, 2025

  • Street in Killarney Ireland.

    Congratulations to Christian who was selected to give a talk at the Precision Genome Engineering: Translating the Human Genome to the Clinic Keystone Symposium conference in Killarney, Ireland

    February 7, 2025

  • The Duke Graduate School logo.

    Congratulations to Sam for receiving the 2025 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring

    February 5, 2025

  • Boxun presenting has data at the Precision Genomics Collaboratory Retreat.

    Congratulations to Boxun for receiving the award for best oral presentation at the Precision Genomics Collaboratory Retreat

    December 13, 2024

  • Helen presenting her data at a meeting in Singapore.

    Congratulations to Helen who was selected for the Duke-NUS exchange program where she traveled to Singapore and presented her work at two conferences

    December 4, 2024

  • Denver skyline at sunset.

    Congratulations to Boxun who was selected for a podium talk at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Denver

    October 24, 2024

  • Madeleine presenting her data at the GTI meeting in Detroit.

    Madeleine presents her work at the annual GTI meeting in Detroit

    October 3, 2024

  • Seattle skyline at dusk.

    Congratulations to Helen who was selected to give a flash talk at the IGVF Annual Meeting in Seattle

    September 5, 2024

  • Sam presenting his data at the Cold Spring Harbor meeting.

    Congratulations to Sam who was selected to give a talk at the Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers conference at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

    August 30, 2024

  • Headshot of Mia.

    Congratulations to Mia who was awarded an NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship

    July 20, 2024

  • Logos from Harvard School of Engineering and UCSF graduate program in Bioengineering.

    Congratulations to Dahlia and Max on being accepted to Bioengineering Ph.D. programs at Harvard and Cal-UCSF, respectively

    May 13, 2024

  • Public square in Brussels.

    Congratulations to Madeleine who was selected for a Travel Award and podium presentation at the Children's Tumor Foundation 2024 Global NF Conference in Brussels, Belgium

    April 25, 2024

  • Baltimore skyline at sunrise.

    Congratulations to Tomer and Christian who were selected to give talks at the annual ASGCT meeting in Baltimore. Christian received the Excellence in Research Award as his abstract was selected as one of the top 15 abstracts at meeting.

    March 28, 2024

  • View of Lubeck, Germany taken from the water.

    Carson and Ellie attend the IGVF workshop 'Massively Parallel Reporter Assays: From Sequence Design to Machine Learning Applications' in Lubeck, Germany

    February 28, 2024

  • Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in the winter.

    Congratulations to Taylor who was selected for an oral presentation at the Keystone Symposium on Precision Genome Engineering in Banff, Canada

    December 5, 2023

  • Johnson and Johnson Scholars of Immunology logo.

    Congratulations to Christian for his selection to the 2024 Johnson & Johnson Scholar of Immunology Diversity and Engagement Program (J&J-SIDEP)

    December 5, 2023

  • Duke advancing engineering logo.

    Congratulations to Sean for receiving the 2023-2024 Duke Engineering Entrepreneurship Program (DEEP) Award

    December 5, 2023

  • CRISPR screen experimental design schematic.

    Congratulations to Sean for publishing his manuscript in Nature Genetics

    November 9, 2023

  • VUmc building in Amsterdam.

    Congratulations to Mia on her CAGT Travel Award

    November 1, 2023

  • Madeleine presenting her data at the GTI meeting in Detroit.

    Madeleine presents her work at the annual GTI meeting in Detroit

    October 4, 2023

  • Stylized graphic image of a double helix.

    Mia, Maria, and Susan are featured in the Duke Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics article 'Combinatorial Genomics Research Requires Combinations of Expertise'

    September 14, 2023

  • The arch in St. Louis.

    Congratulations to Maria on her poster prize at the second annual IGVF Consortium meeting in St. Louis

    September 12, 2023

  • Boston skyline during the day.

    Helen and Lexi present their work at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research in Boston

    June 20, 2023

  • Madeleine presenting her data at the ASGCT meeting in LA.

    Madeleine presents her work at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy in Los Angeles

    May 16, 2023

  • Duke Brodhead building.

    Madeleine and Sam both win poster awards at the Kewaunee Symposium for the Duke Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering

    April 6, 2023

  • Atrium of the NSF building.

    Congrats to Ellie for being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and Mia for Honorable Mention

    April 1, 2023

  • Whistler, BC and the surrounding mountains at night.

    Dahlia, Madeleine, Sam, and Sean all present their work at the Keystone Symposium on Genome Engineering in Whistler, British Columbia. Congrats to Sean and Dahlia for their travel awards

    March 23, 2023

  • Houston skyline.

    Sam presents his work at the 6th International Conference on Epigenetics and Bioengineering in Houston

    October 28,2022

  • Duke Trent Semans Center Building.

    Helen presents her work at the Triangle Regeneration Biology Symposium sponsored by the Duke Regeneration Center

    October 27, 2022

  • LA skyline at sunset.

    Dahlia and Lexi present their work at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Los Angeles

    October 25, 2022

  • Duke hospital buildings.

    Congratulations to Christian for receiving a Duke School of Medicine Precision Genomics Collaboratory-OBGE graduate student pilot research grant

    October 21, 2022

  • Graphic image of a double helix.

    The Duke Center for Combinatorial Gene Regulation hosted the other NIH Centers of Excellence in Genome Sciences and Dahlia, Maria, and Sean all presented their exciting recent results

    October 18, 2022

  • Double helix sculpture in Cold Spring Harbor.

    Dahlia, Josie, and Taylor all present their work at the 2022 Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers Conference at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

    August 24, 2022

  • Rooftops in Lisbon, Protugal.

    Madeleine and Sean both receive travel awards for their presentations at the FASEB Genome Engineering Conference in Lisbon, Portugal

    July 22, 2022

  • Madeleine in downtown Detroit.

    Madeleine is awarded a National Cancer Institute Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition (F99/K00) Award

    May 26, 2022

  • Buildings in Washington, DC.

    Veronica, Madeleine, Sean, Gabe, and Carson present their work at the 25th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy in Washington D.C.

    May 16, 2022

  • Lake and mountains in Keystone, CO.

    Veronica and Gabe both represent the lab with oral presentations at the Keystone Symposium on Precision Genome Engineering in Keystone, CO

    May 1, 2022

  • Headshot of Helen.

    Congrats to Helen for receiving a PhD Student Award for Service to the Duke BME Community, in recognition for serving as Outreach Co-Chair for the Duke Biomedical Engineering PhD Student Association

    April 28, 2022

  • Headshot of Grayson.

    Congrats to Grayson for winning an Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the Biomedical Engineering Retreat

    April 23, 2022

  • Headshot of Maria.

    Congratulations to Maria for recieving the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for Spring 2022 from the Department of Biomedical Engineering

    April 23, 2022

  • Headshot of Veronica.

    Veronica defends her PhD on advanced genome editing strategies to treat muscular dystrophy, Congrats Dr. Gough

    April 14, 2022

  • NSF building.

    Congrats to Helen for being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and Sam for recieving Honorable Mention

    April 4, 2022

  • Headshots of Lexi and other Duke grantees.

    Congrats to Lexi for being awarded $20,000 in pilot grant funding from the Duke School of Medicine Precision Genomics Collaboratory in collaboration with the Duke Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies (CAGT)

    February 9, 2022

  • Precision Genomics Collaboratory logo.

    Congrats to Taylor for winning pilot funding from the Duke University School of Medicine Office of Biomedical and Graduate Education (OBGE) and Precision Genomics Collaboratory

    December 8, 2021

  • Headshot of Sam.

    Congrats to Sam for winning a Graduate Student Pilot Grant from the Duke Precision Genomics Collboratory

    August 3, 2021

  • Sculptures in the atrium of Duke engineering building.

    Congrats to Helen for being awarded the Wanda K. Neu Fellowship from the Duke Department of Biomedical Engineering

    August 1, 2021

  • Stylized graphic of tissue fibers.

    Congrats to Sam for being awarded an NIH T32 Biotechnology Training Grant Fellowship from the Duke Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering

    August 1, 2021

  • Microscopy image of cells.

    Congrats to Christian for being awarded an NIH T32 Fellowship position with the Duke Cellular and Molecular Biology Program

    July 1, 2021

  • Headshot of Alex.

    Congratulations to Alex for being awarded an NIH F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship for her studies on epigenetics and gene regulation in the context of treating inherited disorders.

    December 23, 2020

  • Headshot of Claire.

    Claire is highlighted in the Duke Research Blog

    December 22, 2020

  • Headshot of Liad.

    Congrats to Dr. Liad Holtzman on successfully defending his PhD thesis

    December 21, 2020

  • Stylized graphic of neurons.

    Josh's Cell Reports paper is highlighted in Genetic Engineering News

    December 2, 2020

  • Colorful fluorescent microscopy image.

    Congrats to Carson on her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

    November 19, 2020

  • Schematic of gene therapy delivery to cells.

    Karen and Charlie write a commentary on the future of gene therapy to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Nature Communications

    November 16, 2020

  • Schematic of editing muscle stem cells in mice.

    Jennifer's paper on in vivo genome editing of muscle stem cells is published in Molecular Therapy Methods and Clinical Development

    September 28, 2020

  • Duke Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering logo.

    Congrats to Adrian for receiving the Outstanding Postdoctoral Achievement Award from the Duke Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering

    September 25, 2020

  • Cold Spring Harbor.

    Lexi presents her work at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting on Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers

    August 21, 2020

  • Duke engineering building.

    Lexi and Madeleine receive the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Department of Biomedical Engineering for their fanastic work in developing a new genome editing lab course

    June 5, 2020

  • ASGCT logo.

    Adrian, Karen, Veronica, Jennifer, and Madeleine all present their work at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy

    May 12, 2020

  • Jennifer's paper using CRISPR activators to make muscle progenitor cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells is published in Stem Cell Reports

    April 23, 2020

  • Congrats to Dr. Jennifer Kwon on a successful PhD thesis defense

    March 30, 2020

  • Congrats to Lexi for recieving a student travel award to the Keystone Symposium on Gene Regulation: From Mechanism to Disease

    November 11, 2019

  • Congrats to Dr. Tyler Klann for a successful PhD thesis defense

    November 7, 2019

  • Congrats to Dr. Dewran Kocak as the most recently minted PhD student from the lab after a successful thesis defense

    November 1, 2019

  • Congrats to Chris - now Assistant Professor at University of Arkansas - for recieving a Career Development Award from the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy

    October 23, 2019

  • Congrats to Dahlia and Grayson for their NSF Graduate Fellowship and Sloan Research Fellowship, respectively

    October 22, 2019

  • Congrats to Adrian's award as Duke's 2019 Outstanding Postdoc

    October 4, 2019

  • We are excited to be part of multipe grants funded by the NIH Somatic Cell Gene Editing Consortium

    October 1, 2019

  • Adrian's paper is highlighted by Genetic Engineering News and FierceBiotech

    September 5, 2019

  • Adrian's paper on gene regulation with type I CRISPR systems in human cells is published in Nature Biotechnology

    September 23, 2019

  • Gabe is awarded a Regeneration Next Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Duke Regeneration Next Initiative

    August 8, 2019

  • Madeleine is awarded an NIH T32 Biotechnology Predoctoral Fellowship

    August 1, 2019

  • Josh defends his thesis - Congrats Dr. Black

    June 11, 2019

  • Adrian's review on the next generation of CRISPR technologies is published in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

    May 30, 2019

  • Congrats to Dewran and Gabe for winning presentation awards at the Engineering Biology for Medicine Conference sponsored by Nature and Duke Biomedical Engineering

    May 21, 2019

  • Congrats to Veronica for winning a poster award and "best science" in the rapid fire session in the Duke Biomedical Engineering Department Retreat

    May 7, 2019

  • Congrats to Chris for receiving an ASGCT Excellence in Research award for one of the top 16 abstracts (out of >1000) - Congrats also to Adrian and Veronica for receiving travel awards

    April 30, 2019

  • Adrian, Chris, Jennifer, Veronica, and Karen all present their work this week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy

    April 30, 2019

  • Dewran's latest paper was highlighted in Duke News and FierceBiotech

    April 16, 2019

  • Dewran's paper on gRNA engineering to improve CRISPR gene editing specificty is published in Nature Biotechnology

    April 15, 2019

  • Gersbach lab receives funding from the Gilbert Family Foundation’s Gene Therapy Initiative (GTI) to apply genome editing to treat neurofibromatosis

    December 1, 2018

  • The Gersbach Lab and collaborators are awarded an NSF Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation Award for Chromatin and Epigenetic Engineering

    September 12, 2018

  • Adrian and Chris present their work at the Cold Spring Harbor Genome Engineering Meeting

    August 22, 2018

  • Jacqueline successfully defends her thesis - Congrats Dr. Robinson-Hamm

    July 3, 2018

  • Congrats to Adrian and Josh for their travel awards for top abstract and best poster award, respectively, at the FASEB Genome Engineering meeting

    June 29, 2018

  • Adrian, Dewran, Josh, and Tyler all present their work at the FASEB Genome Engineering meeting in Florence, Italy

    June 23, 2018

  • Jennifer, Chris, Dewran, Shaunak, and Jacqueline present their work at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy

    May 15, 2018

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