May 2026 — Congratulations to Ziyuan and Alec on successfully passing their oral exams and advancing to PhD candidacy! 🎉
May 2026 - Hasit has been awarded the DLS-SURF Fellowship 🎉 Congratulations, Hasit!
It’s wonderful to have you in the lab this summer and to see you continue your research with us.
March 2026 — Congratulations to Mengmeng on winning the Best Paper Prize! 🎉
We are truly grateful for the recognition from the Krieger Klein Alzheimer’s Research Center.
December 2025 — Happy Holidays and best wishes for 2026!
November 2025 — Our new study has been selected as one of the top stories in Rutgers Today for Monday, November 24, 2025. Congratulations to the team! Read more here: Inspired by a Family’s Struggle, a Scientist Helps Uncover Defense Against Alzheimer’s Disease
November 2025 — Award Winner🎉: Mengmeng received the Top Poster Prize at the Cell Symposia: Gene & cell-based therapies! Congratulations to Mengmeng!
In the photo below, she is proudly standing between Dr. Sheila Chari, Editor-in-Chief of Cell Stem Cell (left), and Dr. Sara Hamilton, Editor-in-Chief of Cell Reports Medicine (right). The award was selected by votes from all attendees—only two posters were chosen, including Mengmeng’s.
October 2025 — Exciting News🎉 : our manuscript, led by Mengmeng, Ziyuan, and Haiwei (now in Florida), has been accepted in principle by Cell Reports. Huge congratulations to the team for this fantastic achievement!
Sep 2025: Two of our manuscripts were accepted. 🎉 Congratulations to the team!
July 2025: We are excited to welcome Dr. Muzhen Qiao to the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar!
🎉 July 2025: Exciting News! 🎉
Our CSF2RB story has been provisionally accepted by Nature Neuroscience (pending minor revisions)!
Huge congratulations to Mengmeng, Ziyuan, and the team for this fantastic achievement!
June 2025: 🎉 Congratulations to Ava on her acceptance to the CSHL ASD course!
May 2025: 🎉 Wonderful news—our former undergraduate student Anee has been accepted to medical school! So proud and happy for him!
May 2025: We had a lovely day at our department retreat, held at Masker’s Barn in the Deserted Village!
April 2025: Rutgers Today highlighted our research:
April 2025: Many congratulations to Kushal on receiving the DLS Summer Research Fellowship! 🎉👇
March 2025: On the very last day of March, our review paper on Chimeric Brain Models was officially accepted by Neuron! 🎉
Congratulations to co-first authors Ava and Mengmeng, and to the entire team for this incredible achievement!
February 2025: Congratulations to Alec for receiving the Rutgers BHI Trainee Travel Award! Well deserved! 🎉
01/2025: Welcome Hasit Shah to join our lab as an undergraduate research assistant!
12/2024: A new study led by Rui Dang has been accepted by Cell Regeneration. Congrats!
12/2024: Happy Holidays and best wishes to Haiwei as you move to Florida to work on collaborative projects!
10/2024: We had a fantastic time in Chicago and thoroughly enjoyed the SfN annual meeting!
09/2024: Bowling is definitely a fun way to relax! It’s always nice to take a break together.
07/15/2024: Welcome back to Alec as he rejoins us as a graduate student to complete his thesis work!
04/22/2024: Ava has been selected for fellowship support by the T32 training program "Training in Translating Neuroscience to Therapies" (TTNT). Congratulations to Ava!
04/2024: Welcome Jaelyn Velasquez and Michelle Ng to join our lab as undergraduate research assistants!
04/08/2024: Congratulations to Anee on the successful defense of his Undergraduate Honors Thesis!
03/29/2024: lab outing for golf in Spring in NJ is indeed a fantastic idea!
02/14/2024: Congratulations to Andrew Boreland, the graduate student co-mentored by us, for his outstanding achievement!
11/08/2023: Ava's thesis proposal has received approval, marking her progression to the status of a PhD candidate. Congratulations to Ava!
09/06/2023: Our Multi-PI (Levison, Jiang) R21 grant titled "Cytokine Regulation of Secondary Neural Progenitors" has been awarded by NIH/NICHD.
07/05/2023: Happy summer break!
06/21/2021: Excited that Mengmeng's postdoc fellowship and our lab's pilot grant (in collaboration with Dr. Steven Levision at NJMS) have been awarded by the NJ Department of Health! We appreciate the support for our research on Autism.
06/01/2023: Maraj successfully defended his thesis and will graduate with a Master’s degree. Congrats, Maraj!
05/10/2023: Welcome Rui Dang to join us as a postdoc research scholar!
04/24/2023: Prof. Jiang has been selected to receive a Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research. This award is truly a testament to the outstanding research work we do as a team.
03/21/2023: Our CBN undergrad Maharaib Syed has been admitted to Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School MD program. Congrats to Maharaib!
02/13/2023: Our reseach work is highlighted at Rutgers Excellence: https://www.rutgers.edu/excellence!
02/01/2023: Welcome Haiwei Zhang to join us as a postdoc research scholar!
11/11/2022: Congrats to Mengmeng for being selected to represent Rutgers to compete for Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists!
10/03/2022: New protocol paper written by Mengmeng Jin and Ziyuan Ma is accepted by STAR Protocols. Congrats!
09/21/2022: New study led by Mengmeng Jin is accepted by Stem Cell Reports. Congrats to Mengmeng, Maraj, and team!
09/03/2022: Our new Opinion article is published in Cell Regeneration.
08/22/2022: Our multi-PI R01 (Yelamanchili, Jiang) grant titled " Cerebral organoid and IPSC derived microglia: Modeling of HIV and methamphetamine co-morbidity” has been funded by National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH.
07/20/2022: Congratulations to Maraj for receiving Rutgers NIH Biotechnology predoctoral fellowship!
07/19/2022: Our recent study published in Cell Stem Cell (Jin et al. 2022) is reported by Rutgers Today: Rutgers Scientists Reveal New Evidence of Key Mechanism in Alzheimer’s!
?In our chimeric mouse brain, the hippocampus, a brain region highly associated with learning and memory functions, is nearly completely populated by implanted human stem cell-derived microglia (green color, staining of human cell specific TMEM119 antibody).
07/19/2022: Postdoctoral positions are available
We are looking for postdoc candidates who are experienced with either molecular biology, particularly CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing or brain slice electrophysiology, such as patch-clamp recording. Candidates are expected have a Ph.D. in neuroscience, stem cell biology or related fields. Interested? Please email
Lab group pictures 2018-2022
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