News

NDSEG Fellowship for Zach

Huge congratulations to our PhD student Zach for being awarded a prestigious NDSEG Fellowship! He achieved the rare feat of being awarded both an NSF GRFP and a NDSEG, too bad he can only keep one. We are very proud of you Zach!

Congrats to Graduates Holly and Jack

Congrats to Holly and Jack for graduating with their Masters! We are looking forward to hearing about all your future successes.

NSF GRFP Fellowship for Zach

Our PhD student Zach Fralish has recieved a prestiguous NSF GRFP Fellowship. Congratulations Zach, we are very proud of you!

Talk at UNC Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery

Daniel gave a talk at the UNC Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery and the Carolina Cancer Nanotechnology Training Program.

Keynote talk at ELLIS Workshop

Daniel gave a keynote talk at the ELLIS Machine Learning for Molecule Discovery Workshop about our active machine learning efforts.

Welcome Zach!

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

We have recieved the early career investigator High-Risk High-Impact 2021 Seed Funding from Duke MedX together with the Tata lab.

Welcome Amy!

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are excited to host Ben for his CBB rotation and Joe for a BSURF internship this summer!

Talk at the ACS Spring meeting

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.