News

Stay up to date with news out of the Carpenter Lab in the Departments of Medicine and Pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Recent News

March 2025: Usha Stiefel and Steve Carpenter participate in the IDSA's "Hill Day", meeting with congressional offices in Washington, D.C. to advocate for funding for research and training in Infectious Diseases and Immunology.

February 2025: Vinicius, Avinaash, Dan, and Steve present work from the lab at the Keystone TB Meeting in Boston.

January 2025: The Federal Government pauses communications and grant funding from the NIH

January 2025: Steve is elected to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Collaboration for TB Vaccine Discovery (CTVD) Conventional T cell Research Community

December 2024: The Carpenter and Bryson Labs present work on T cell recognition of Mtb-infected macrophages to the IMPAcTB consortium annual meeting.

August, 2024: Robert joins the Carpenter Lab!

July 1st 2024: Steve receives Innovation Award funding from the American Lung Association

May 10th, 2024: Steve delivers a Keynote talk on memory CD4+ T cell responses to macrophages infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis at the annual Department of Medicine Research Day

May 10th, 2024: Avinaash wins “best poster presentation” at the University Hospitals Department of Medicine Research Day for her work on genes differentially expressed by human macrophages infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

April 26th, 2024: Vinicius delivers a talk on Memory CD4 T cell responses to bystander, non-infected macrophages at the Annual Immunology Training Program (ITP) retreat!

March 15th, 2024: Our manuscript "Analyzing human CD4+ T cells activated in response to macrophages infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis" is published in STAR Protocols!

March 15th, 2024: The Lab visits Escape Room Coventry! (picture below)

October 30th, 2023: Steve is elected as Fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA).

June 30th, 2023: Vinicius successfully completes his PhD Qualifying Exam!

June 14th, 2023: Steve presents work on human CD4 T cell recognition of Mtb-infected macrophages at the NIH / Stop-TB Workshop, “Recognition and Control of Mtb-infected Cells: From Basics to the Clinic”

June 1st, 2023: The Carpenter Lab celebrates Avinaash’s successful completion of her PhD Qualifying Exam!

May 12th, 2023: Avinaash wins “best poster presentation” at the University Hospitals Department of Medicine Research Day for her work on CD4 T cell clones targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens 

April 14th, 2023: Vinicius delivers a “poster slam” presentation on Mtb-specific CD4 T cell responses to bystander, non-infected macrophages at the Annual Immunology Training Program (ITP) retreat (picture below)

Feb. 10, 2023: Steve presents the lab’s work on memory CD4 T cell recognition of human macrophages infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis at UMass Chan Medical School at the Worcester TB Meeting

Dec. 7, 2022: Steve gives the Peter Agre Lecture to MD/PhD students and house staff at University Hospitals 

Aug. 3, 2022: Vinicius, Dan, and Steve present at the Keystone TB meeting in Breckinridge, Colorado

July 31-August 11th, 2022: The Carpenter Lab receives notices of awards for two National Institutes of Health grants (K08, R21) and an American Lung Association Catalyst Award!!