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Lab News and Updates
Check out our latest news and updates!


Child’s rare condition diagnosed after 14 years of searching
A Wisconsin mother, Danelle McGuire, spent 14 years searching for answers about her son Treyson Wallace’s developmental challenges. Born...
Mar 17


Rare Disease Week 2025
In February 2025, Bryn and Jadin participated in Rare Disease Week on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., to advocate for the rare disease...
Mar 17


UW Undiagnosed Disease Program has been selected to join the NIH Undiagnosed Disease Network as a Diagnostic Center of Excellence
The University of Wisconsin Undiagnosed Disease Program has been officially recognized as a Diagnostic Center of Excellence by the...
Jan 21


First Lab Paper!
🎉 Congratulations to Sophia E. Salemi  on her first first-author  paper, recently accepted in Stem Cell Research ! The study, titled...
Jan 21


Webb Lab on Capitol Hill
Rare Disease Legislative Advocates (a program by the EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases) hosted Rare Disease Week on Capitol Hill...
May 31, 2024


Webb Lab Members train at Mount Sinai Stem Cell Engineering Core
Norman Liu and Sophia Salemi spent a month at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City with Dr. Samuele Marro's Lab and...
Feb 6, 2024


Bryn Webb receives research grant from Elijah’s Project for Hope
The Texas-based non-profit organization Elijah’s Project for Hope has awarded Bryn Webb, MD, a two-year research grant in the amount of...
Oct 30, 2023


Bryn Webb’s research on Moebius Syndrome published in Nature Genetics
Congratulations to Dr. Bryn Webb and her colleagues for their recent publication in Nature Genetics! The paper, titled “Noncoding...
Oct 30, 2023


Advancing Precision Medicine Symposium 2023
Congratulations to Norman Liu, Sophia Salemi, and Zsoka Polyak for presenting their posters at the annual Advancing Precision Medicine...
Oct 26, 2023


Narrative Medicine Conference
In September, Dr. Bryn Webb went to attend the 44th annual David W. Smith Genetics Meeting in which she presented on Moebius Syndrome and...
Sep 11, 2023
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