October 24, 2021
We are super excited to welcome our third graduate student Amy Chung! Amy will lead our microbiome metabolite work and we can't wait to share all her exciting discoveries!
October 22, 2021
The lab has recieved a 2021 Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) voucher award. This grant will support our research through access to the SMIF and its state-of-the-art equipment for imaging and nanoparticle characterization.
September 22, 2021
Huge congratulations to Joe and Holly for being awarded fellowships/assistantships to support their work! Holly recieved a Master's Student Research Fellowship and Joe recieved a URS Assistantship! Very well deserved!
September 13, 2021
We are excited to have Junyu Nan join us as a new Master student. Junyu graduated from UC Irvine with a B.Sc. in Biology & Mathematics and is excited to start working on our nanoparticle projects.
August 31, 2021
After his succesful M.Sc. work at Duke with us, Zilu decided to stay and is now our second PhD student! We are very happy we can continue to work with Zilu and look forward to all your exciting discoveries!
June 2, 2021
The UNC Chapel Hill Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease (CGIBD) has awarded us a Pilot Grant to predict the effects of microbial metabolites on NOD-like receptors. Very grateful to be able to start this new line of research and built translational collaborations with the CGIBD.
April 15, 2021
We are excited to host Ben for his CBB rotation and Joe for a BSURF internship this summer!
April 5, 2021
Daniel presented the results from our recent Nature Nanotechnology paper at the ACS Spring 2021 meeting. A recording of the talk is available for registered attendees.
March 25, 2021
Our computational nanoparticle design work was just published in Nature Nanotechnology.
February 26, 2021
We received our first small grant from NC Biotech! The Flash Grant will provide directed funding to get us started on some of our new ideas and facilitate integration into the North Carolina biotech community. Excited and grateful for this opportunity.
January 25, 2021
We are growing and look forward to be working with Sara (Comp Sci), Zilu (BME), and Tiffany (CBB) this spring semester. We also welcome our first BME graduate student Hrshita!
November 18, 2020
Nathan Brown (Benevelont.AI) has put together a fantastic new book, covering different flavors of artificial intelligence methods applied to various challenges in the drug discovery process.
November 11, 2020
In a collaboration with the University of Cambridge and the University of Lisbon, we have developed a new software tool ”LabMate.ML” that can optimize organic synthesis conditions through active machine learning.
October 29, 2020
Our new analysis was published today in Pharmaceutical Research (Springer) "Historical Evolution and Provider Awareness of Inactive Ingredients in Oral Medications".
September 15, 2020
Vivek is joining us as a Research Aide. We look forward to working with you!