Summer 2025

  • Congratulations to Felipe, who graduated with a MS degree in Biomedical Engineering!

  • Huge congratulations to Arielle, Cristiana, and Julianna — officially PhD Candidates!

  • We welcome Alex Kratz as post-doctoral fellow in the lab. Alex recently graduated from Prof. Alex Chavez’s lab from Columbia University/UCSD.

  • Samagya was named one of the ten young investigators to receive the Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award. We are excited to have the support of the Hartwell Foundation.

    Read more

    BU highlights - Read more

Spring 2025

  • Congratulations Maria Steis for being awarded UROP funding to continue her research in the lab!

  • Lab welcomes new graduate students: Cristiana DeAgazio, Julianna Hitchcock and Arielle Gsell (co-advised with Brianne Connizzo).

  • Samagya is named a Hartwell Investigator. We are thankful to the Hartwell Foundation for their support!

    Read more

  • Congratulations Chris for being awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

  • Congratulations Maria Steis for being awarded the prestigious Distinguished Fellowship (DSRF) program from College of Engineering!

Fall 2024

  • Our lab’s work was recognized with an MLSC award!

    Read more

  • Samagya co-organized 7th International CRISPR Conference in San Diego. 

    Read more

  • Congratulations to Yuanhang on passing his qualifying exam!

  • We welcomed our rotation students and celebrated our fall achievements with a fun dinner and an exciting escape room adventure. Not only did we escape in record time, but we also managed to rescue some stolen art!

  • Welcome Anjali Singh, who joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Anjali recently graduated from Prof. Jayanta Bhattacharyya's lab at IIT Delhi.

  • Our lab was awarded a faculty starter grant from the PhRMA Foundation. Thank you, PhRMA Foundation, for supporting our work.

    Read more

  • Mira is awarded UROP funding to continue her research in the lab. Congratulations!

Summer 2024

  • Congratulations to Chris on passing his qualifying exam!

  • Congratulations to Jacob on his graduation!

Spring 2024

  • Our talk at ASGCT 2024 was featured in the news.

    Read more

  • Mira is awarded the Stem Pathways Fellowship. Congratulations!

  • Yuanhang joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome!

  • Chris joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome!

  • Jacob joins the group. Welcome!

  • The Banskota Lab officially opens in Jan 2024!

pre-2024

  • Samagya was invited to present at WashU’s Department of Genetics Seminar

  • Samagya presents on delivery technologies for genome editors at the CRISPR Technologies conference

  • Samagya is named MIT 35 Under 35: Biotechnology and Medicine

    Read more

  • Dual AAV system for prime editor delivery is published!

    Read more

  • Coverage of engineered virus-like particles (eVLP) delivery work