April 5, 2022
Our PhD student Zach Fralish has recieved a prestiguous NSF GRFP Fellowship. Congratulations Zach, we are very proud of you!
February 21, 2022
Daniel gave a talk at the UNC Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery and the Carolina Cancer Nanotechnology Training Program.
December 13, 2021
Daniel gave a keynote talk at the ELLIS Machine Learning for Molecule Discovery Workshop about our active machine learning efforts.
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!
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.
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.
