2026
February 2026 – Congratulations to Cher for being awarded an NIH F30 training fellowship! Great work!
January 2026 – Congratulations to Steven, Cher, and our co-authors for their review on metabolic mimics of rheumatologic disease which was recently published in Nature Reviews Rheumatology!
January 2026 – Cher and Nathalie did a great job presenting their posters at the annual departmental retreat!
January 2026 – The Burrage Lab welcomed Melany for a third term rotation in the lab!
2025
December 2025 – The Burrage Lab wishes Emily best of luck as she completed her coursework in the lab this semester! We are proud of all that she accomplished in the lab and wish her well as she completes her final semester at Rice University!
October 2025 – The Burrage Lab welcomed Jace for a second term rotation in the lab!
October 2025 – Congratulations to Nathalie for giving a wonderful platform presentation on her work on KMO Deficiency at the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting!
October 2025 – Congratulations to Steven for having his paper on late-onset OTC variants accepted for publication in HGG Advances! Great work, Steven!
October 2025 – The Burrage Lab enjoyed a lab lunch together and celebrated all the many accomplishments of the group this year! Congratulations to all!
September 2025 – Congratulations to the ROAR – Rare Organic Acidemias Consortium – which received funding this month! NIH awards more than $15 million to fund two rare diseases consortia | BCM
September 2025 – The BCM CPMM team celebrated the renewal of the BCM CPMM grant together! The PIs are grateful for everyone’s hard work and collaborative efforts and we look forward to working with the team for another 5 years!
August 2025 – Congratulations to Nathalie for being selected as a Pre-Doctoral Finalist for the 2025 Trainee Research Excellence Award at the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting! This is a tremendous honor for Nathalie and we are so very proud of her! We look forward to her platform presentation at the meeting in Boston!
July 2025 – Congratulations to Steven for a great talk on late-onset variants in OTC at the virtual National Urea Cycle Disorders Consortium Foundation conference!
June 2025 - Congratulations to Saima and the UCD clinical research team for the acceptance of their publication describing the prevalence of hepatic fibrosis in UCDs in Molecular Genetics and Metabolism!
March 2025 - Steven did a great job presenting his poster describing two commonly reported incidental variants in OTC at ACMG!
February 2025 - The Burrage laboratory welcomes Steven Lang, M.D. (pediatrics-genetics resident)!
February 2025 - Congratulations to Cher Sha (MSTP student) for passing her qualifying exam! We are so proud of you!
January 2025 - Nathalie Aceves-Ewing did a great job presenting her studies of a novel variant in AXIN2 as an oral presentation at the genetics departmental retreat!
January 2025 - Congratulations to Nathalie for being awarded an NIH F31 training fellowship! Great work!
2024
June 2024 – We are so proud of Haonan for being awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Award to support her training for the next three years! Congratulations!
May 2024 – Dr. Burrage and Dr. Lee’s work on arginase deficiency from several years ago was featured in BCM “From the Labs” as this work set the stage for a new therapy for arginase deficiency that was recently approved in Europe!
March 2024 – Nathalie did a great job presenting her work on congenital NAD deficiency as an oral presentation at TAGC meeting in Washington, D.C.! Congratulations, Nathalie!
February 2024 – Congratulations to Dan (medical genetics resident), the BCM UDN team, the Clinical Translational Core of the Center for Precision Medicine Models, and collaborators for having their manuscript describing de novo heterozygous variants in MAP3K20 accepted for publication in Human Genetics!
February 2024 – The Burrage Lab welcomes Cher Sha as the newest member of the Burrage Lab!
January 2024 – The Burrage Lab welcomes Cher Sha for a term three rotation in the lab!
January 2024 - Haonan and Nathalie did a great job presenting their work at the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics retreat this year!
2023
December 2023 – The Burrage Lab joined the Heaney Lab, the Genetically Engineered Rodent Model (GERM) Core, and KOMP staff for a Holiday Cookie Swap! We enjoyed sharing our favorite holiday desserts with each other before the holidays.
November 2023 – Congratulations to Nathalie for getting awarded a travel scholarship to attend and present her work at the Allied Genetics Conference in Washington D.C. this spring!
October 2023 – Congratulations to Nathalie for doing a great job presenting her poster at the Transgenic Technologies 2023 conference here in Houston!
October 2023 – The Burrage Lab welcomes Grace Pina for a term 2 rotation!
August 2023 – Bridget’s image from her publication on Lysinuric Protein Intolerance made the cover of the August 2023 issue of Disease Models & Mechanisms! Congratulations to the lab for this accomplishment!
August 2023 – The Burrage Lab welcomes Penelope Romo-Llamas for a term 1 rotation!
July 2023 - Congratulations to Bridget and the entire laboratory as our paper investigating the mechanism underlying the skeletal phenotypes in Lysinuric Protein Intolerance was accepted in Disease Models & Mechanisms!
June 2023 - The Burrage Lab welcomes Jaslin, our summer student, to the lab!
May 2023 – Congratulations to Haonan for winning 2nd prize for her poster at the Lawrence Family Bone Disease Program of Texas Annual Scientific Retreat for her work on Lysinuric Protein Intolerance!
May 2023 – The Burrage Lab welcomes Emily Chen, a Rice undergraduate student, to the lab!
April 2023 – Congratulations to Sara Koh on her graduation from Rice! The Burrage lab wishes Sara best of luck as she starts medical school this summer!
March 2023 - Sara Ho did a great job presenting her poster on her work on Lysinuric Protein Intolerance at the BCM Medical Research Symposium.
January 2023 – The Burrage laboratory welcomes Chloe Munderloh for a rotation in term 3!
January 2023 – Haonan Zhouyao and Nathalie Aceves did an excellent job presenting their research as posters at the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics retreat this year!
2022
November 2022 - The Burrage Lab welcomes Dr. Haonan Zhouyao to the laboratory as a postdoctoral associate!
October 2022 – Congratulations to Nathalie Aceves for advancing to Ph.D. candidacy!
October 2022 – The Burrage laboratory welcomes Emily Busse for a rotation in term 2!
August 2022 - Congratulations to Sara Koh for her Poster Award at the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium! Great job!
July 2022 - The Burrage lab wishes Bridget Stroup well as she departs from the lab after 4.5 years with us! Bridget was a highly productive post-doctoral fellow and team member in our group and we will certainly miss her!
July 2022 – We welcome Zixue Jin to the Burrage lab!
June 2022 - Congratulations to Laura Keehan, M.D. (recent BCM graduate who completed multiple research projects with our group and the Undiagnosed Diseases Network) for winning the Arthur L Beaudet Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Genetics at graduation!
May 2022 – The Burrage Laboratory welcomes Nathalie Aceves (graduate student) to the laboratory!
May 2022 – Congratulations to Sara Koh, our undergraduate student, for being selected for NIDDK’s dkNET Summer of Data Student Program!
May 2022 - Bridget Stroup did a fantastic job presenting her work on Lysinuric Protein Intolerance at the Lawrence Family Bone Disease Program of Texas 2022 Scientific Retreat!
April 2022 - Congratulations to Ashanta Merriweather (Summer Medical Student, now MS2) for having her Undiagnosed Diseases Network project investigating an intronic variant in POGZ accepted for publication in American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A.
March 2022 - Congratulations to Laura Keehan (MS4) for matching into the Pediatrics-Medical Genetics residency program at Stanford! We wish her luck in her new position!
January 2022 - Congratulations to Bridget Stroup as her abstract was selected for a poster talk at 2022 Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders and she was awarded a travel award to attend the conference!
2021
November 2021 - Congratulations to Laura Keehan (MS4) for a great presentation at the UDN network-wide steering committee meeting on Nov. 14, 2021!
August 2021 – Congratulations to Bridget Stroup as her abstract describing her studies of our Lysinuric Protein Intolerance mouse model was accepted for an oral presentation at the fifth International Symposium on Urea Cycle Disorders!
August 2021 – The Burrage lab welcomes Sara, a Rice University undergraduate student, to the lab!
August 2021 – The Burrage lab welcomes Nathalie (graduate student) for a rotation in term 1!
July 2021 – The Burrage lab welcomes Sara (MS2) to the laboratory!
June 2021 - Laura Keehan (MS4) was one of only two medical students to present Grand Rounds in the Department of Molecular & Human Genetics this past academic year. She gave a fabulous talk on June 25, 2021 describing her work on ITPR1 in the UDN!
June 2021 – Congratulations to the clinical team as our figure showing liver disease in urea cycle disorders made the cover of Molecular Genetics and Metabolism – June 2021 issue
May 2021 - Congratulations to Laura Keehan (BCM medical student) for being featured in the BCM Family - Student Corner for her work with the Undiagnosed Diseases Network. View article.
April 2021 - Congratulations to the clinical team for having the Urea Cycle Disorders Consortium pilot study investigating liver disease in urea cycle disorders accepted to Molecular Genetics and Metabolism.
April 2021 – Congratulations to Laura Keehan (BCM medical student) for having her Undiagnosed Diseases Network project investigating a rare variant in ITPR1accepted for publication in American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A.
March 2021 – Congratulations to Bridget Stroup for being awarded the 2021 Urea Cycle Disorders Consortium (UCDC) Fellowship.
February 2021 – Congratulations to Laura (BCM medical student) for having an abstract on her Undiagnosed Diseases Network project investigating a rare variant in ITPR1 accepted as a poster presentation at the 2021 American College of Medical Genetics annual meeting.
2020
May 2020 – Congratulations to Bridget Stroup for her publication describing a new mouse model for Lysinuric Protein Intolerance in Human Molecular Genetics.
Feb. 2020 – Congratulations to the entire Burrage Lab for their publication in JCI Insight describing liver disease and abnormal hepatic glycogen metabolism in urea cycle disorders.
Jan. 2020 – Congratulations to Bridget Stroup for having her work on Lysinuric Protein Intolerance accepted as a platform presentation at the Society of Inherited Metabolic Disorders (SIMD) annual meeting.