2025

  • March 4 - Lipeng Wang joins the lab as a staff associate! Welcome!

  • February 17 - Yangkang Zheng joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow! Welcome! Yangkang will be co-mentored by Dr. Matthew Greenblatt & Dr. Kyle Morse.

  • February 3 - A warm welcome to Takeshi Hirose, who has joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow!

  • January 16 - Lingling Hu was named as one of the recipients of the 2025 ASBMR John Haddad Young Investigator Award! Congratulations!

2024

  • October 1 - Kyle Morse returns as an attending at HSS! Congrats on the new position and welcome back to the east coast!

  • September 26-29 - Matt, Lingling, Seoyeon, Michelle, and Ting attend ASBMR together in Toronto! Matt, Lingling, and Ting will present their work on Saturday, September 28.

  • September 19 - Lingling Hu was announced as one of the recipients of the 2024 ASBMR Young Investigator Awardees! Congratulations!

  • August 1 - Federico La Manna joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow! Welcome!

  • July 25 - New article (“Are Osteoblasts Multiple Cell Types? A New Diversity in Skeletal Stem Cells and Their Derivatives“) from the Greenblatt lab!

  • July 8 - Zachary Feinstein joins the lab as a rotational graduate student from the Weill Cornell PBSB program! Welcome ~

  • June 24 - Congratulations to Jun & Seoyeon, whose research was featured in a recent article in the Weill Cornell Impact Magazine!

  • June 10 - Alex Vivar joins the lab this summer as a rotating graduate student from the Tri-I MD-PhD program! Welcome ~

  • May 16 - Branden Sosa graduates from Weill Cornell Medical College and was awarded The T. Campbell Thompson Prize for Excellence in Orthopedic Surgery! Congratulations Dr. Sosa!!

  • April 17 - Our study on murine anterior interbody and posterolateral spinal fusion techniques has been featured in JBJS Volume 106, Issue 8! You can read our paper here. Congratulations to Kyle and the rest of the team!

  • March 19 - We are thrilled to announce that Peyton Carpen has joined the lab for her PhD thesis and becomes the lab’s first graduate student! Congrats and welcome!

  • March 15 - Branden Sosa matches at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) for orthopedic surgery! Congratulations! (And glad we will have you around until at least 2029!)

  • February 14 - Our study on how AI chatbots perform when prompted with orthopedic related questions has been featured on Healio! You can read the interview, which features Branden & Matt, here.

  • January 21 - Our second paper (“Capacity for large language model chatbots to aid in orthopedic management, research, and patient queries”), which focuses on the accuracy of AI chatbots responses, is officially out in JOR now! Congratulations to Branden and the rest of the team!

  • January 19 - Tim Xu, a first year medical student here at Weill Cornell Medicine, joins the lab! Welcome ~

  • January 10 - Peyton Carpen joins the lab as a rotating graduate student from the Weill Cornell BCMB program!

  • January 4 - Our first paper of the year, titled “The performance of AI Chatbot Large Language Models to Address Skeletal Biology and Bone Health Queries”, which focuses on assessing the performance of popular AI chatbots is now out in JBMR! Congrats to Branden & Michelle, and the rest of the team!

  • January 2 - Happy new year! Han Choi joins the lab as a research technician. Welcome!

2023

  • November 28 - Our findings on a newly discovered vertebral stem cell has been featured in The Washington Post! You can read the article here.

  • October 13 - Matt, Alisha, and Ting attend ASBMR together in Vancouver! Both Matt and Alisha will be presenting at ASBMR.

  • October 4 - Congratulations to Jun Sun on being selected as a recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the Children’s Tumor Foundation!

  • September 20 - 2 for 2! Our other paper, “A multi-stem cell basis for craniosynostosis and calvarial mineralization”, is now out in Nature! You can read the manuscript here and a summary of our findings under the Cornell Newsroom here. Congrats to Seoyeon Bok and the rest of the team for all their efforts!

  • September 13 - Our paper, “A vertebral skeletal stem cell lineage driving metastasis”, is finally out in Nature! The manuscript can be found here, as well as a summary of our findings under the Cornell Newsroom here. Huge congrats to Jun Sun and the rest of the team!

  • August 25 - Ting Cong, who is an orthopedic sports medicine fellow at HSS, has joined the lab as a clinical research fellow! Welcome!

  • July 6 - Seoyeon Bok received the Arthritis National Research Foundation grant!

  • June 15 - Seoyeon Bok was named as one of the recipients of the 2023 ASBMR Harold M. Frost Young Investigator Award!

  • June 7 - Congrats to Shawon Debnath for being selected as one of the winners of the 2023 Tri-Institutional Breakout Award for Junior Investigators!

  • April 25 - Matt was named one of the winners of the newly established Pershing Square Foundation’s Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery (MIND) Prize! Congrats!

  • January 30 - Jun Sun was announced as one of the recipients of the 2023 John Haddad Young Investigator Award!