Recent News
Keynote talk at ELLIS Workshop
December 13, 2021
Daniel gave a keynote talk at the ELLIS Machine Learning for Molecule Discovery Workshop about our active machine learning efforts.
Welcome Zach!
November 16, 2021
We are thrilled to welcome our fourth graduate student Zach Fralish! Zach will lead our drug development work and we can't wait to share all his exciting discoveries!
MedX High-Risk High-Impact grant 2021
November 1, 2021
We have recieved the early career investigator High-Risk High-Impact 2021 Seed Funding from Duke MedX together with the Tata lab.
Welcome Amy!
October 25, 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!
2021 Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) voucher award
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.
Fellowships for Holly & Joe
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!
Welcome Junyu
September 14, 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.
Zilu is now a PhD student
September 1, 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!
CGIBD Pilot Grant
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.
Welcome Ben and Joe
April 15, 2021
We are excited to host Ben for his CBB rotation and Joe for a BSURF internship this summer!
Talk at the ACS Spring meeting
April 5, 2021
Daniel presented the results from our recent Nature Nanotechnology paper at the ACS Spring 2021 meeting.
New paper in Nature Nanotechnology
March 25, 2021
Our computational nanoparticle design work was just published in Nature Nanotechnology.
NCBiotech Flash Grant
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.
Welcome Sara, Zilu, Tiffany, and Hrshita
January 26, 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!
New book on AI for drug discovery
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.
Active machine learning for reaction condition optimization
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 throu
New analysis published in Pharm Res
October 29, 2020
Our new analysis was published today in Pharmaceutical Research (Springer) "Historical Evolution and Provider Awareness of Inactive Ingredients in Oral Medications".
Welcome Vivek
September 15, 2020
Vivek is joining us as a Research Aide. We look forward to working with you!
Welcome Holly, Jack, and Paul
August 25, 2020
Excited to start the Fall semester with three excellent BME students who will work on exciting projects in active learning and computational pharmacology.
We're online
August 6, 2020
The website is now online. Come check out our Research, Openings, and Publications!