Welcome to the Mills Lab

The Mills lab explores how metabolites act as signaling molecules to regulate macrophage function during homeostasis and in chronic pathologies such as metabolic disease, chronic inflammatory disease, and cancer

Latest News

April 2025-Welcome Fran!
March 2025-Brenda & Evanna presented at the Pew Conference!
January 2025-Welcome Laura, Toni, and Allie!
December 2024-Huge congratulations to Gerard and Jiayin who won the AHA fellowships!!!
July 2024-Itamar and Neil join the lab. Welcome!
June 2024-Brenda won the Pew fellowship. Huge congrats!!!
May 2024-Veronica joins the lab. Welcome!
April 2024-Dimpi joins the lab as a postdoc fellow. Welcome!
April 2024-Our review on redox regulation of macrophages is out in Redox Biology!
April 2024-Nhien is officially a Ph.D. candidate. Congratulation!
April 2024-The Mills lab wins the DFCI Easter Egg Hunt thanks to our talented egg hunter, Rachel!
March 2024-The Mills lab turns 2!
January 2024-Shuo joins the lab, welcome!
October 2023-Rachel joins us as our new lab manager, welcome!
Zeynep is starting her Ph.D. study at KU Leuven. Congratulations! We will miss you.
September 2023-Kudos to Jiayin who passed her PQE!
August 2023-Zeynep successfully defended her thesis, congratulations!
June 2023-Lahki and Victor join the lab for the summer!
April 2023-Brenda joins the lab, welcome!
April 2023-Sunny joins us as a rotation student from the BBS program, welcome!
March 2023-the Mills lab turns 1!
March 2023-The Mills lab hosts our first happy hour!
March 2023-Zeynep and Nhien join the lab!
Nov 2022-Jiayin joins the lab as a graduate student. Welcome Jiayin!
Nov 2022-Our mass spec has arrived!!
June 2022-Jiayin joins us as a rotation student from the BBS program and Gerard joins as the Mills Lab's first post-doc! Welcome Jiayin and Gerard!
April 2022-Nancy joins us as a rotation student from the Biological Sciences in Public Health program at T.H. Chan. Welcome Nancy!
March 2022-Week 2 in the Mills Lab and with the help fo superstar lab manager, Alisa, the lab is starting to look like a lab!