Lab News

SEPTEMBER
Our move into the beautiful new BMI space is complete-the new address of the Bhutani lab is Module 1200, Biomedical Innovations Building, 240 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA.

Our patent on‘ Cartilage cells with a high regeneration potential and low immune response for use in cellular therapy’ US patent no. US10,758,574 B2 was awarded!

AUGUST
Our review on ‘Epigenetic therapies in OA’ is published in Trends in Pharmacology and highlighted on the COVER!

Congratulations to Piera and Fiorella for their TET1 study in growth plate development in JBMRplus!

JUNE
A big congratulations to Fiorella for getting the coveted ‘Student Award for Excellence in Teaching’! Go Fiorella!

APRIL
Our TET1 and 5hmC dynamics in Osteoarthritis published in Science Translational Medicine! Congratulations Piera!

MARCH
Congratulations Fiorella for ‘The first single cell proteomic atlas for cartilage’ published in Science Advances!

Our collaborative work with the Sebastiano Lab is published in Nature Communications.

FEBRUARY
A big congratulations to Fiorella for a fantastic Thesis defense. So proud of you Dr. Grandi!!! Good luck at UCSF!

Announcing Baby Celeste- Big congratulations to proud parents Piera and Andrew and the big sister Valentina!

Dr. Bhutani organized and gave a talk at the ‘Single Cell Omics’ Workshop at ORS.

Dr. Sahu gave a great presentation at ORS 2020 about endogenous regeneration in human OA explants! Bhutani lab was well

DECEMBER
Dr. Bhutani is appointed as an NIH Standing Member for Study Section SBSR (Skeletal Biology Structure and Regeneration)

Congratulations and Farewell to Helen Liu for graduation and going on to medical school at Albert Einstein. All the best, Helen!

AUGUST
Congratulations to Christian for the publication of our collaborative work with the Chu lab in Journal of Orthopedic Research!

APRIL
Welcome to Dr. Mamta Singla joining us as a new postdoctoral fellow!

MARCH
Welcome to Dr. Neety Sahu joining us as a new postdoctoral fellow!

FEBRUARY
Fiorella gave an awesome presentation at ORS about her high dimensional single cell CyTOF studies in cartilage! Multiple posters presented from our lab. Bravo!

Announcing Baby Aamaira- Big congratulations to proud parents Pranay and Mamta!

JANUARY
Our collaborative work with the Guilak Lab is published in Stem Cells

We were granted a BioX IIP Seed grant in collaboration with Prof. Ovijit Chaudhury’s lab in Mechanical Engineering!

DECEMBER
Dr. Bhutani gave an invited talk at the 2nd Epigenetics and Bioengineering Conference, December 2018, San Francisco, California

NOVEMBER
Tenure!! Dr. Bhutani was promoted to Associate Professorship with tenure.

Farewell to Piera as she starts her independent position at Institut Myologie in Paris! All the best!

OCTOBER
Welcome to Dr. Akshay Pandey joining us as a new postdoctoral fellow!

AUGUST
Welcome to Dr. Michela Bruschi joining us as a new postdoctoral fellow!

A big shoutout to Shin-Mae for acceptance in medical school at Yale. Congratulations!!

JULY
Dr. Bhutani is appointed as ORS Representative on the BIG DATA WORK GROUP for the International Federation for Musculoskelatal Research Societies (IFMRS) (2018-2021)

APRIL
Dr. Bhutani gave an invited talk on ‘Genetic and Epigenetic regulation of Cartilage health and Disease’ at Grand Rounds at Department of Rheumatology, Northwestern Hospital, Chicago, IL

FEBRUARY
Dr. Bhutani gave an invited talk on ‘Determining Candidate Biologic targets for Cartilage injuries’ at the AAOS Conference on Optimizing Clinical use of Biologics in Orthopedic Surgery at Stanford

Dr. Bhutani is a PI in a 10 million DoD sponsored multi-PI Focused project awarded to Prof. Chu for ‘Novel Strategies to Combat Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis (PTOA)’. Congratulations Prof. Chu and the team!

Congratulations to Grace for the publication of Our collaborative work with the Chu lab in American Journal of Sports Medicine!

JANUARY
Dr. Bhutani gave an invited talk on ‘Unlocking the secrets of young Cartilage to enhance Regeneration and Repair’ at USC

DECEMBER
Dr. Bhutani gave an invited talk on ‘The Dynamic Epigenome in cell fate transitions in Health and disease’ at International Conference on Epigenetics and Bioengineering at Miami, Florida

NOVEMBER
Jieun’s manuscript on hichondrocytes is published in Stem Cell research and Therapy!

SEPTEMBER
Dr. Bhutani gave an invited talk at the University of Connecticut (UConn) Medicine Seminar Series in Skeletal Biology and Regeneration

Piera’s manuscript on Collagen VI’s role in MSC is published in Bioengineering and Translational Medicine

AUGUST
Dr. Bhutani gave an invited talk at the Sixth International Conference on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, San Francisco, CA

JUNE
Dr. Bhutani was an Invited Speaker in University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IRM) Seminar Series.

MAY
Dr. Bhutani was awarded a new R01 on the potential of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) for cartilage tissue engineering!!

Congrats to Shin-Mae for an awesome presentation of her Honors thesis work on Tet proteins in Osteosarcoma. Bravo!

FEBRUARY
Welcome to Dr. Pranay Agarwal as a postdoctoral scholar in the lab!

Dr. Bhutani gave an invited talk at the 2nd Musculoskeletal Development and Regeneration Fusion Conference, Cancun, Mexico

JANUARY
Our report on the First International Workshop on Epigenetics in osteoarthritis with other thought leaders in the field is published in Connective Tissue Research!
 

DECEMBER
Congratulations to Jieun for new publication in Arthritis Res & Therapy!

Dr. Bhutani gave an invited talk at the Translational Medicine and Bioengineering Conference (Society of Biomedical Engineers), San Francisco, CA

OCTOBER
Welcome to Dr. Shravani Mukherjee as a postdoc in the lab.

SEPTEMBER
Dr. Bhutani gave an invited talk on ‘Induced pluripotency (iPSC) and Designer stem cells for Cartilage Repair’ 13th World Congress of International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS), Naples, Italy

AUGUST
First NIH R01 for the lab! Dr. Bhutani was awarded a new R01 for studying the role of DNA demethylation regulators in Osteoarthritis.

Bhutani Lab bid a farewell to Jieun with a Lunch at Faculty club. Congratulations and best of luck to Jieun as starts her new lab at Albert Einstein in NY!!

JUNE
Announcing Baby Valentina- Big congratulations to proud parents Piera and Andrew!

MAY
Congrats to Catheryn for an awesome presentation of her Honors thesis work on the Lgr5 proteins in cartilage. Bravo!

APRIL
Sarah’s manuscript on Juvenile factors in cartilage is published in Tiss Eng Part A

MARCH
Sarah and Piera’s study on the role of 5hmC in chondrogenic differentiation is published in JBMR. Congrats!

NOVEMBER
Dr. Bhutani gave an invited presentation at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA

SEPTEMBER
Dr. Bhutani gave an invited presentation on ‘The technology behind Epigenetic Analyses of Cytosine modifications and the epigenome in OA’ at the OARSI First International Workshop on Epigenetics in Osteoarthritis, Amsterdam, Denmark

AUGUST
Dr. Bhutani was awarded an ANRF Research Scholar Award!

Congratulations to Jieun for publishing her study on the iPSC differentiation to chondrocytes for cartilage generation in FASEB J!

MAY
Congratulations to Sarah for her study on 5hmC mapping in OA cartilage is published in Arthritis & Rheumatology (A&R).

FEBRUARY
Piera’s manuscript on the role of Col 6 in stem cells is published in Tissue Engineering Part A. Congrats!

Dr. Bhutani gave an invited presentation at the Musculoskeletal Development and Regeneration Fusion Conference Cancun, Mexico

JANUARY
Bhutani Lab bid a farewell to Sarah with a Lunch at Faculty club. Congratulations and best of luck to Sarah as starts her new position at Clontech!!

DECEMBER
Piera’s manuscript on Juvenile chondrocytes is accepted in Tissue Engineering Part A. Congrats!

Dr. Bhutani gave a talk on ‘Epigenetic dysfunction in Osteoarthritis’ at the International Symposium on Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, CUHK, Hong Kong

AUGUST
Dr. Bhutani was awarded a 3-year NIH R03 award!

Dr. Bhutani was awarded a 2-year Innovative Research Grant Award from Arthritis Foundation!

JULY
Dr. Bhutani was awarded a joint ANRF/AFAR Research Scholar Award for being the top ranked grant application

JANUARY
Dr. Taylor’s paper on the role of DNA hydroxymethylation in Osteoarthritis is published in Arthritis & Rheumatology (A&R). Congratulations, Sarah!

SEPTEMBER
Dr. Taylor’s paper on the role of DNA hydroxymethylation in Osteoarthritis is accepted in ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATISM (A&R). Congratulations, Sarah!

AUGUST
The lab had a fun picnic under the sun, boating and relaxing in the Shoreline park!

JULY
Welcome Akshara Balachandra and Yema Jalal to join the lab for summer internships.

MARCH
Dr. Bhutani’s manuscript on the role of AID in induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) reprogramming was published in FASEB JOURNAL (FASEB J).

DECEMBER
Madhu did a great job in successfully defending her thesis on DNA demethylation. Congratulations, Madhu!

OCTOBER
The lab celebrated their first Diwali party with sweets and sparklers!

JULY
Welcome to our new post-doctoral scholar Dr. Piera Smeriglio and Stanford undergraduate Rachel Pedreira to join the lab!

MAY
Dr. Bhutani’s manuscript on the role of Cathepsins in neurodegeneration was published in JBC.

JANUARY
Welcome Dr. Sarah Taylor to join the lab for her post-doctoral research!

DECEMBER
The lab enjoyed their first holiday lunch!

SEPTEMBER
Dr. Bhutani’s review on ‘DNA Demethylation Dynamics’ with Dr. Burns and Prof. Blau is published in CELL.

Dr. Bhutani gave a talk at the Cancer Biology Retreat on AIDing DNA Demethylation.

AUGUST
Welcome Madhu to join the lab for her Master’s thesis research.

Welcome Subbu to join the lab as the lab manager/research assistant.

JULY
Welcome to the Bhutani Lab!