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8.27.26 New paper on the role of HC·HA in inflammation Our newest paper is available on bioRxiv The work, led by postdoc Suruchi Poddar and in collaboration with colleagues Anthony Day (U Manchester), Paul DeAngelis (Oklahoma Med), and Heidi Reesink (UC Davis), describes a role for heavy chain-modification in protecting hyaluronan from the reactive oxygen species that build up during inflammation. Congrats to all authors!
8.24.26 Welcome Eryka Kairo! We welcome Eryka to the group as a PhD student, co-advised by Adam and Sean Murphy (WFIRM)! She will be focusing on building and testing tissue constructs for women's health applications alongside Haddie. She joins us following earning her BS in Physics from Seton Hall University and her MS in Biomedical Engineering from George Washington University. Welcome!
8.13.26 Group lunch! Lab alums Sara and Ian joined for a group lunch with (most of) the team. It was great to see both of them again, but especially Sara who has been away for a long time. Ian hasn't given us a chance to miss him yet. Thanks to everyone for coming out!
7.24.26 Summer student Vidantika finishes This year, we welcomed Vedantika Bose as a summer scholar in our lab. Joining us from the University of Illinois, Vedantika worked closely with Lauren and the rest of the nanopore team to improve our pore fabrication capabilities. She worked hard all summer and her results will help our research going forward. Thank you, Vidantika!
6.15.26 Biannual Nanopore Conference in Croatia Adam was invited to speak at the biannual nanopore conference in Croatia for the third time while attending From Solid State to Biophysics XI! This meeting is always a highlight when it comes around and he was thrilled to meet up with people from across the field, including his postdoc mentor and friend Cees Dekker (left)! A huge thank you to all the presenters but especially to the organizers Aleksandra Rađenović and Slaven Garaj for continued support.
5.16.26 Noor graduates! Congratulations to Noor Refaqat, who graduated today with her MS in Biomedical Engineering! Noor did great work spearheading our efforts to implement in an animal model the new adaptive cell therapy (ACT) product that we have been developing for several years in collaboration with the labs of Kostas Votanopolous and Shay Soker here at WFUSM. This will be the foundation of some exciting work to come. Thank you for the hard work and great job!
5.6.26 Newest paper published in Scientific Reports The lab's newest paper providing a detailed description of monovalent streptavidin production is now available in Scientific Reports. Led by Ian Wadsworth and with key early contributions from group alums Sara Abu Jalboush and Komal Sethi, the work was completed in close collaboration with the lab of Tom Hollis here at WFUSM. This project was a marathon, requiring Ian to learn about protein production from the ground up. Great job!
5.1.26 Welcome Samayeta Sarkar Tuli! We are happy to welcome to the lab our newest PhD student Samayeta Sarkar Tuli (Tuli for short). Tuli is in the Molecular Medicine and Translational Science (MMTS) program and worked with us during a rotation this spring. She was invited to join the lab in co-advisement with Sean Murphy (WFIRM) to contribute to our lung organ tissue equivalent (OTE) work. Welcome, Tuli!
4.21.26 VT-WF SBES Symposium The annual joint symposium for the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences took place in Winston Salem this year and both Dariya and Noor gave oral presentations on their projects. Both did a nice job and Dariya was named the first place presentation in the translational cancer session! Congratulations!
4.14.26 Noor defends MS thesis! Noor successfully defended her MS thesis today! Entitled "Advancing organoid-interacting lymphocytes towards in vivo validation for solid tumor treatment", she did a great job in both her presentation and the Q&A with the committee that followed. Congratulations, Noor! Well earned!
4.10.26 Dariya wins award for her 3-minute thesis presentation! Dariya was selected to participate in this year's WFUSM Research Day 3-minute thesis (3MT) competition and her single-slide overview of her lung cancer radiotherapy model won the People's Choice Award! Great job, Dariya!
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