Spring 2025

  • Congratulations Maria Steis for being awarded UROP funding to continue her research in the lab!

  • Lab welcomes new graduate students: Cristiana DeAgazio, Julianna Hitchcock and Arielle Gsell (co-advised with Brianne Connizzo).

  • Samagya is named a Hartwell Investigator. We are thankful to the Hartwell Foundation for their support!

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  • Congratulations Chris for being awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

  • Congratulations Maria Steis for being awarded the prestigious Distinguished Fellowship (DSRF) program from College of Engineering!

  • Congratulations to Felipe, who graduated with a MS degree in Biomedical Engineering!

Fall 2024

  • Our lab’s work was recognized with an MLSC award!

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  • Samagya co-organized 7th International CRISPR Conference in San Diego. 

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  • Congratulations to Yuanhang on passing his qualifying exam!

  • We welcomed our rotation students and celebrated our fall achievements with a fun dinner and an exciting escape room adventure. Not only did we escape in record time, but we also managed to rescue some stolen art!

  • Welcome Anjali Singh, who joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Anjali recently graduated from Prof. Jayanta Bhattacharyya's lab at IIT Delhi.

  • Our lab was awarded a faculty starter grant from the PhRMA Foundation. Thank you, PhRMA Foundation, for supporting our work.

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  • Mira is awarded UROP funding to continue her research in the lab. Congratulations!

Summer 2024

  • Congratulations to Chris on passing his qualifying exam!

  • Congratulations to Jacob on his graduation!

Spring 2024

  • Our talk at ASGCT 2024 was featured in the news.

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  • Mira is awarded the Stem Pathways Fellowship. Congratulations!

  • Yuanhang joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome!

  • Chris joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome!

  • Jacob joins the group. Welcome!

  • The Banskota Lab officially opens in Jan 2024!

pre-2024

  • Samagya was invited to present at WashU’s Department of Genetics Seminar

  • Samagya presents on delivery technologies for genome editors at the CRISPR Technologies conference

  • Samagya is named MIT 35 Under 35: Biotechnology and Medicine

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  • Dual AAV system for prime editor delivery is published!

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  • Coverage of engineered virus-like particles (eVLP) delivery work