9/2026: We are excited to welcome Madison Hincher to the Doerfler Lab as a Senior Research Technologist. Her experience will support our genomic studies of blood cell biology, including patient-derived studies of hemoglobin regulation and genetic therapies.
8/2026: Our collaborative study with the Falet Lab, published in Blood Red Cells & Iron, demonstrates that PACSIN2 plays an important role in transferrin uptake and terminal erythroid maturation, revealing a previously unrecognized role for membrane remodeling in red blood cell development.
6/2026: We congratulate Zach on joining Diverge Translational Science Laboratory and thank him for his contributions to the Doerfler Lab. We wish him every success in his new role.
6/2026: The Doerfler Lab was awarded a five-year NIH/NIDDK R01 to investigate why fetal hemoglobin is unevenly distributed among red blood cells and how this knowledge can improve therapies for sickle cell disease
6/2026: Our collaborative study with the Rao Lab, published in Cell Reports Methods, establishes best practices for improving the reliability and reproducibility of CUT&Tag chromatin profiling
12/2025: Our study revealing how fetal hemoglobin is distributed among individual red blood cells was published in Blood Advances.
10/2025: The Doerfler Lab was featured by Shepherd Express for its work advancing new therapies for sickle cell disease.
10/2025: The Doerfler Lab's research on genome editing for sickle cell disease was featured by TMJ4.
10/2025: Congratulations to Siba on her promotion to Research Technologist II!
9/2025: The Doerfler Lab was awarded an NIH/NIDDK R03 to investigate how blood stem cells respond to DNA damage following therapeutic genome editing.