News

Congrats to Sophia on CBTE Fellowship

Sophia was awarded the NIH T32 Ruth L. Kirschstein Training Grant Fellowship for the Duke Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering (CBTE), congrats on this well deserved award!

New preprint from our lab on computationally-designed nanoparticles

We are thrilled to announce the release of our latest research on ChemRxiv: TuNa-AI: A Hybrid Kernel Machine to Design Tunable Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery.

Daniel Presenting at Spring ACS

Daniel shared our latest work on pairwise molecular machine learning and machine learning for nanoparticle design at the spring 2025 ACS meeting in San Diego.

Congrats to Zilu on Paul and Lauren Ghaffari Graduate Fellowship

Congratulations to Zilu on receiving a Paul and Lauren Ghaffari Graduate Fellowship. This prestigious fellowship is for graduate students pursuing studies related to oncology and eligible departments are limited to 2 nominees.

Presenting at AI/ML in Pediatric Research

Daniel presented "Machine Learning for Drug Discovery and Delivery" at Johns Hopkins All Childrens Hospital's 4th annual AI/ML in Pediatric Research Symposium.

DST LAUNCH Grant

Thank you for the support Duke Science & Technology (DST) LAUNCH fund! We are excited for this grant and partnership with Professor Ru-Rong Ji to help us develop artificial intelligence tools for the design of longer lasting anesthetic nanoformulations.

Presenting at US-Japan Symposium on Drug Delivery Systems

Daniel presented at the 16th US-Japan Symposium on Drug Delivery Systems

Bert Presents at Anesthesiology Drug Discovery Day

Bert presented his work, titled "Anesthetic-Excipient Nanoparticles for Prolonged Analgesia" at the Anesthesiology Drug Discovery Day!

Presenting at BioTM

Daniel presented "Machine Learning for Drug Discovery and Delivery" at the 8th Bioengineering and Translational Medicine Conference.

Presenting at 2024 BMES Annual Meeting

We are excited to present again at BMES for the 2024 meeting. Details of talks and posters are shown below:

News and Views in Nature Computational Science

We are excited to share a News and Views article in Nature Computational Science about an exciting new study by Derek van Tilborg and Francesca Grisoni ( rdcu.be/dViua ) where we discuss the application of active learning with deep machine learning models: rdcu.be/dXOWX

Daniel Presenting at AAPS

Daniel presented an invited talk at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists on "Machine Learning for Drug Discovery and Drug Delivery"

Presenting and Trainee Award at nanoDDS for Zilu

Zilu presented his work on a hybrid kernel machine to design tunable nanoparticles for drug delivery at the 22nd International Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Symposium (NanoDDS 2024) and won a trainee travel award, congrats!

Welcome Lamis, Sophia, and Rebeca!

We are very excited to welcome three new members to our lab. Lamis is a NIH PRIME-PREP fellow, Sophia is a graduate student, and Rebeca is a post-doc. Looking forward to the exciting research from you all!

Work Using Paired Molecular Representations for Active Learning Published

We are excited to share that our work entitled "Finding the most potent compounds using active learning on molecular pairs" has been published in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry: https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/articles/20/185