- November 2023: Congratulations, Jaela! Jaela is the recipient of an Inaugural Foundery Innovations Fellowship for her scientific accomplishments and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in science. 

- October 2023: Grateful to receive an NIH Director's New Innovator Award to study vascular mural cells in the blood brain barrier. 

- September 2023: Welcome Eric! Eric Garcia is a Neuroscience Graduate student doing a rotation interrogating neurovascular interactions in neural development. We went to lunch to celebrate. 

- We had two outstanding undergrad summer students this year, Ashna Patel from University of Pennsylvania and Tara Joseph from Cornell University. Thank you, Tara and Ashna for all your hard work and for bringing some wonder and excitement into the lab!

- June 2023: Thrilled to announce that we are the recipient of a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Next Gen Pregnancy Award to study Mechanisms of Germinal Matrix Hemorrhage. Our goal is to have clinical trials for new therapies in this terrible disease in the next 10 years. Let's go! 

- June 2023: The ventilation system in our IRM Pod needed to be replaced. So we went bowling! (Betsy got top score ;-))

- April 2023: Betsy accepting an American Society of Clinical Investigation Young Investigator Award (with fellow UCSF physician scientist Carolyn Sangokoya, 2022 Young Investigator Awardee and UCSF Women Physician Scientist Supergroup Founder). 

- April 2023: Very pleased to announce that we have been approved for funding via a DISC0 via CIRM, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Now let's get to work! 

- March 2023: CONGRATULATIONS, KAYLEE AND LOUKAS!!! Kaylee successfully completed her qualifying exam and Loukas was approved to graduate from his Masters Degree in Neuroscience @ King's College London!

- March 2023: Congrats, Jaela, on a successful rotation! Here is an action shot of her thought-provoking final presentation.

 

- December 2022: Pleased to announce Dr. Samhita Jain's case report published with Dr. Crouch.  In short, we found that neonatal lupus can present as isolated cardiomyopathy without EFE or heart block. Especially grateful to this baby's family, who encouraged us to publish this case report to raise awareness of less common complications of neonatal lupus. 

- October 2022: The Crouch lab at the UCSF Institute of Regenerative Medicine (Stem Cell Center) retreat @ the Fioli Gardens in Woodside, CA. Edward and Loukas gave excellent poster presentations. 

 

- September 2022: Celebrating our paper which was published in Cell in collaboration with many excellent labs, including Eric Huang's lab, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla's lab, and Arnold Kriegstein's lab. 

- August 2022: Thanks to Tara Joseph who spent an outstanding summer in the lab learning to code, culture, and FACS. She won the Meinig Fellowship to fund her work and we can’t wait to have her back next summer. 

- July 2022: Crouch lab outing to the SF Giants game on July 14. They lost, but we still enjoyed a salty, windy, loud game! 

- June 2022: Betsy speaks and serves as a discussion leader at the Gordon Research Conference on Endothelial Cell Biology. 

- May 2022: Welcome, Nourien! Nourien is an undergraduate student at Minerva University funded by the UCSF Women's Physician Scientist Supergroup working in the lab this summer with Kaylee. 

- March 2022: Welcome Sneha! Sneha is a DSCB student doing a rotation in the lab. She has taken on not ONE but TWO challenging mini-projects. Can't wait for your success! 

- March 2022:  Congratulations, Kaylee! Kaylee has been awarded an American Heart Association Diversity Supplement for her thesis work to understand the blood brain barrier. We also enjoyed celebrating with you (picture, below). 

- February 2022: Welcome Edward! Edward is a CIRM SFSU Biomedical Science in Biotechnology and Stem Cell Science Program Masters student who is joining the lab. 

- December 2021: Our collaboration with the Nowakowski lab on cellular barcoding in human cortical progenitors is published in Nature.

- November 2021: Betsy speaks at Toronto Neonatology Grand Rounds. 

- July 2021: Janeth is accepted to the PROPEL program! Congratulations and we support you! 

- July 2021: Kaylee Wedderburn-Pugh joins the lab as the first graduate student shared with Tippi MacKenzie's lab! Welcome and we can't wait for your success!