May 1, 2023 - We would like to welcome aboard our previous undergraduate thesis student, Sandra, as an incoming graduate student within the Rullo Lab! Sandra will be completing her Master’s Degree in Biochemistry. Congratulations Sandra!

April 24, 2023 - A HUGE congratulations to Harrison for a strong Master’s Defence! After a long 4 years, Harrison and his MSc will be heading to the States, where he will be completing his PhD in Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)!!

April 20, 2023 - Congratulations Ben for receiving the 2022 Chemical Biology Graduate Program Impact Award!

April 20, 2023 - A big congrats to Eden for receiving the 2022 Chemical Biology Graduate Program Leadership Award!

April 20, 2023 - Congratulations to Harrison for winning first place in the Chemical Biology colloquium!

December 29, 2022 - A big congratulations to another longtime lab member Eden for his recently accepted manuscript in Cell Reports-Physical Sciences!! We are all so excited for you! A Sneak Peek can be found here

December 29, 2022 - Breaking news! HUGE congratulations goes to longtime lab member Ben, for his accepted manuscript in Angewandte!! The paper can be found here

October 1, 2022 - Congratulations to our new lab member Karolina for winning the Department of Medicine’s Graduate Student Award! A highly competitive award, and everyone at the lab is so proud!

August 23, 2022 - Congratulations to Rebecca on her new position as Instructional Assistant in Chemistry at McMaster!!!! We couldn’t be more excited for you!

August 23, 2022 - Congratulations to Sarah on her new position working for Lymphoma Canada! We are so proud of her, congrats Sarah :) !

August 9, 2022 - Congratulations to Sarah for her strong thesis defence and obtaining her M.Sc. in Chemical Biology!

August 4, 2022 - Congratulations to Akshaya for a very strong thesis defence & obtaining her M.Sc. in Medical Sciences!

July 25, 2022 - Congratulations to Dr. Rullo on being awarded funding for his recent Cancer Research Society (CRS) grant proposal titled Tumor Targeting of Universal T cells Using Covalent Adapter Molecules!

April 15, 2021 - A big congrats to Rebecca for obtaining her M.Sc. in Chemical Biology. The lab’s first graduate & we couldn’t be more excited for her!

April 5, 2021 - Congrats to Sissi for her CIHR CGS-M & Harrison for being awarded an OGS! We stan lab members that stay winning.

September 7, 2021 - As the scientific founder of Anna Biosciences, Dr. Rullo recently discussed the application of CIRs for targeting COVID-19. Read the full article here: https://pharmaphorum.com/r-d/targeting-covid-19-cancer-immunotherapy-advancements

More information about Anna Biosciences can be found on the company’s official website: https://annabiosciences.com/

August 14, 2021 - Congratulations to Ben for a strong performance on his Ph.D. comprehensive exam in Chemical Biology! Ben is now officially a Ph.D. candidate and the first in our lab!

May 7, 2021 - Congratulations to Ben who has just been awarded a prestigious NSERC PGSD!

May 6, 2021 - Check out our recent publication in ACS Biochemistry. Congratulations to Ben and Eden for leading this amazing effort! The paper can be found here.

April 28, 2021 - The review paper Rebecca has been collaborating with the Ask Lab is now live! Check it out here.

April 7, 2021 - A big congratulations to Eden, Nick, and Akshaya who have all been awarded a CIHR CGS-M and Harrison for being awarded an NSERC CGS-M!

April 4, 2021 - We are pleased to announce that a review article Rebecca has been working on in collaboration with the Ask Lab has been accepted into Biochemical Pharmacology. Stay tuned!

March 25, 2021 - We’re proud to announce that Ruijia and Fiona were each awarded an Audrey Cameron Academic Excellence Award! Ruijia will continue working with us this summer as she begins her 5th year as a ChemBio co-op student and Fiona will begin as a Level 3 ChemBio summer student.

February 24, 2021 - The Rullo Lab is pleased to announce that Harrison has been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship and will be joining the lab as a graduate student in summer 2021!

February 12, 2021 - Congratulations to Dr. Rullo for being awarded the Medicine Internal Career Research Award!

February 2021 - We’re pleased to announce our white paper on the validation of covalent immune recruiters using the Octet platform is ready to go live. Congrats to Eden, Sissi, and Ben for their great work!

December 2020 - The Rullo Lab is thrilled wrap up 2020 with our second publication. Check out the article here: https://currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/21604762

Wishing everyone a safe and Happy Holidays!

June 2020 - The Rullo Lab would like to congratulate Nick Serniuck who is formally accepting a graduate position with us and joint with the Bramson Lab as well as being awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

April 2020 - Congratulations to Ben Lake for a great performance on his PhD transfer exam and official start as a PhD candidate.

March 2020 - Congratulations to Eden Kapcan for being accepted into the McMaster MD/PhD program.

February 2020 - We’re thrilled to announce that the Rullo Lab has officially had its first publication accepted to the ACS Chemical Biology journal on covalent immune recruiters! Check out the full article here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acschembio.0c00112

August 2019 - Support through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has supplied the Rullo Immunology lab with a brand new Plate Reader and HPLC.

August 2019 - The Rullo Lab has received a Cancer Research Society (CRS) Grant that will support future research on the covalent immune recruiter technology.

June 2019 - Prof. Rullo gives an invited seminar at the Canadian Innovation Conference (CIC) in Quebec City as well as a presentation at the Bio-Organic Gordon Research Conference on our covalent immune recruiting research platform.

June 3-7, 2019 - The Rullo lab would like to congratulate Alex and Eden for their poster presentations, and Nick and Ben for their presentations at the 102nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Quebec City.

June 2019 - The Rullo Lab warmly welcomes Natalie Mercanti, a joint M.Sc student with the Valliant Lab working on combination radio-immunotherapeutic tools to probe the abscopal effect.

May 2019 - Congratulations to Nick Serniuck and Eden Kapcan for successfully obtaining NSERC USRA scholarships to pursue their Chemical Biology 5th year co-op research.

April 2019 - The Rullo Lab has received a Prostate Cancer Canada discovery grant to pursue research on avidity based synthetic immunotherapeutic targeting strategies.

March 2019 - Congratulations to Ben Lake on being awarded a prestigious NSERC CGS-M scholarship to pursue his Masters Chemical Biology degree.

January 2019 - The Rullo Lab welcomes and would like to congratulate Chanell Chu for obtaining an NSERC USRA to persue her Chemical Biology 3rd year coop.

December 20, 2018 - Rullo Lab would like to wish everyone a safe and Happy Holidays!

September 4, 2018 - Rullo Lab welcomes back Nickolas Serniuck, Eden Kapcan, Alex Wang, and Brady MacDonald. They will all be returning this year for their fourth year thesis project.

September 4, 2018 - Rullo Lab welcomes Samm Reynolds, Lilian Diaz, and Bethany Tong, three new chemical biology thesis students. 

August 19-23, 2018 - Dr. Rullo is preparing for his upcoming talk at the American Chemical Society National Meeting and Expo in Boston, MA

June 21, 2018 - Rullo lab received a grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation that will support infrastructure in the lab

June 3-7, 2018 - Dr. Rullo gave a presentation on chemical strategies to modulate the immune recognition of cancer at the Canadian Chemistry Conference in Edmonton, Alberta

May 8, 2018 - Rullo Lab welcomes it's first MSc student, Ben Lake. Ben recently graduated from McMaster University's Honours Chemical Biology Co-op program, and will advance multiple projects within the Lab

May 1, 2018 - Rullo Lab welcomes Brady MacDonald, a third year Chemical Biology student developing covalent dimerizers 

January 29, 2018 - Anthony presents Chemical Strategies to Modulate the Anti-Cancer Immune Response at a McMaster Demystifying Medicine Seminar 

January 10, 2018 - Third year Chemical Biology co-op students Eden Kapcan, Alex Wang, and Nickolas Serniuck have joined the group

September 28, 2017 - Anthony discusses our program at an invited seminar given to the Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences at the University of Toronto-Mississauga

September 21, 2017 - Anthony presents our program at the McMaster Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology seminar series

September 20, 2017 - Anthony presents our program at the McMaster Immunity and Infectious Disease seminar series

September 15, 2017 - Chemical Biology thesis student Tim Cheun joins the group

September 1, 2017 - Chemistry and Immunology unite to understand and combat human disease - Chemical fumehoods and infrastructure now being installed within MIRC, The Rullo Program at McMaster has begun!!