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Jia starts her associate investigator position at BIOPIC/IGC, Peking University in China (Director: X. Sunney Xie). Wish you all the best of luck in your new position, Jia. We will miss you and your consideration and care for other lab members!

Three-dimensional modeling and CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology are giving scientists a new view into Sturge-Weber syndrome, a rare congenital disorder that causes small blood vessels, called capillaries, to be malformed.

Boxun was awarded a Pilot Project Award by the Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research. Congratulations, Boxun!

Alice won a two-year grant from the AT Children's Program foundation on single-cell analysis of AT brains.

Scientists have grown human blood vessels in a mouse for the first time using cells taken from an adult donor.

Tuesday, August 15, 2017; Houston, Texas – The Sturge-Weber Foundation (SWF), a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, has named Colette Bichsel, PhD of Boston Children’s Hospital the recipient of the 2nd Lisa’s Sturge-Weber Research Fellowship Award.

The Sturge-Weber Foundation (SWF), a 501 (c)(3)nonprofit organization, has named Lan Huang, PhD, of Boston Children's Hospital the recipient of the inaugural Lisa's Sturge-Weber Research Fellowship Award. Research is defined as "patient-oriented research" conducted with human subjects, or...

More than 2 million people ages 19 through 25 gained health insurance in the years following the passage of former President Barack Obama's health care law, which allows young adults to stay on their parents' plans until age 26. Post-Obamacare, these young adults had access to health care, but it...

A person born with a port-wine birthmark on his or her face and eyelid(s) has an 8 to 15 percent chance of being diagnosed with Sturge-Weber syndrome. The rare disorder causes malformations in certain regions of the body’s capillaries (small blood vessels). Port-wine birthmarks appear on areas of...