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Matt and his 'mini-microscope' design team are awarded a Wisconsin Educational Innovation Aw

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Matt and his 'mini-microscope' design team are awarded a Wisconsin Educational Innovation Aw

The award will fund the creation of a low-cost “mini-microscope” built by students taking the 2-year BME design course. Once the...

Farewell to our amazing postdoc Halena, who got our pyruvate kinase studies off the ground.

We say farewell to our postdoctoral fellow Halena VanDeusen. Halena is moving with her fiancé to the Twin Cities, where she has accepted...

Welcome to our new postdoc Hannah Foster who completed her PhD in Biochemistry @ Harvard.

Hannah Foster joins the laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow. Hannah has an interesting and unusual resume – including a BS in Harp...

Our new method for measuring functional beta cell mass in vivo was published in Diabetes! Check it o

“Radiomanganese PET detects changes in functional beta cell mass in mouse models of diabetes” was published in Diabetes! This a...

Congratulations to Trilly on receiving her PhD in Biophysics!

Trillian Gregg was awarded her PhD in Biophysics! Congratulations Trilly! Trilly graduated with one first-author paper in Diabetes, a...

Farewell to our incredible Lab manager Brian Schmidt!

We say farewell to our lab manager, Brian Schmidt. Brian fell in love with the graduate student next door (yes, really!), and they’re...

Matt receives an Early Career Development Award from CSCTR.

Matt is awarded an Early Career Development Award from the Central Society for Clinical and Translational Research (CSCTR) for our work...

Welcome Ellie and Sophie, new grad students in the Merrins Lab.

We have two new students! Sophie Lewandowski and Ellie De Leon join the lab as graduate students in the Integrated Program in...

LABORATORY OF MATTHEW J. MERRINS, Ph.D.