Moving in!

Rachel sets up shop in her new office in the beautiful building that will soon be home to the Regenerative Medicine Institute! Proud to be the pioneering member of the third floor. The Zwick lab launches soon!!!
Playing with our department’s new light sheet microscope – the first of this model in the US!

Sean Thompson, PhD, has joined the Zwick Lab as a postdoc! His groundbreaking doctoral work at Washington State University studied Rete ridge formation in mammalian skin; we’re very excited to be welcoming him to NYC!

Fieldtrip to the New York Academy of Medicine’s remarkable Rare Books Room to learn about the etymology of the intestine for an upcoming literature review. Many thanks to Arlene, the NYAM Historical Collections Librarian, for hosting me for such a productive and fascinating visit. Stay tuned for our review…

Dr. Zwick’s article, “Regional organization of nutrient absorption across the small intestine,” has been selected to be featured on the cover of Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology October 2026 issue!
Extremely excited to welcome Irene, our very first rotation student in the NYU Vilcek PhD program, to the lab this week!
The Zwick Lab celebrates one year at NYU Grossman School of Medicine! We got together with some lab friends for bocce, darts, and blew out the singular candle on our first birthday cake.