7-17-25: Congrats to Amrik for being awarded an NIH F30 MSTP graduate student fellowship!
7-7-25: We are excited to welcome McKenna Crawford and Sabine Cismoski to the lab as our newest graduate students! McKenna and Sabine are both in the Graduate Program in Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
7-3-25: Congrats to Abhilash for being awarded a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Career Development Award for Post-doctoral Scholars!
7-3-25: We thank the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for supporting our clinical translation of novel CD70-targeting CAR T-cells for high risk multiple myeloma with a Translational Research Program Award!
7-1-25: Arun begins his term as Interim Chair of the UCSF Department of Laboratory Medicine. Wish him luck!
7-1-25: We thank the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy for supporting us with two awards, one toward the further preclinical development of CCR10-targeting CAR T-cells for multiple myeloma, and the other to further our high-throughput technology to assess therapeutic antibody internalization into tumor cells!
6-30-25: We are proud to see off our junior specialists Haley, going to graduate school at UCLA, and Nikhil, staying here at UCSF for MD-PhD! Good luck to both of you!
6-18-25: Congrats to Chloe for passing her qualifying exam in the Graduate Program in Bioengineering!
6-10-25: We are happy to welcome Natasha Mariathasan to the lab, our first high school intern from the Nueva School!
5-27-25: Thanks to everyone for a great Wiita Lab Retreat 2025!
5-22-25: Congrats to Tom for passing his qualifying exam in the Graduate Program in Chemistry and Chemical Biology!
5-13-25: Congrats to Corynn, Adila, Bonell, and many others in the group for their paper published online at Blood, defining CD70 as a promising immunotherapy target for high risk multiple myeloma!