Lab News

 November 13-15, 2023 – Erin and Alyssa attend the Nature – Bioengineering for Global Health Conference in Nashville, where Alyssa gave a flash talk and both presented posters.

October 2023 – The lab welcomes Bioengineering PhD students Katherine Chen, Emily Henrich, and Chaoyang Tang!

October 2, 2023 – The lab welcomes Laavanya Devarajan, a visiting PhD student from IIT Madras!

September 9, 2023 – Congratulations to Alyssa Kunkel for publishing in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research!

August 15, 2023 – Congratulations to Brett Pogostin on being awarded an F99/K00 Fellowship!

July 28, 2023 – Congratulations to Sam Wu and Yosan Embafrash for earning top honors at the IBB Summer Research Symposium!

May 30, 2023 – Congratulations to Miusi Shi for publishing in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews!

May 12, 2023 – Congratulations to Tyler Graf for publishing in JoVE!

March 27, 2023 – Congratulations to Lynna Baryakova for publishing in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery!

March 2, 2023 – Congratulations to Tyler Graf for publishing in Advanced Materials!

January 3, 2023 – The lab wins a grant from the Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation.

December 12, 2022 – Congratulations to Tyler Graf for publishing in PNAS!

November 2022 – The lab welcomes Bioengineering PhD student Alyssa Kunkel and Chemistry PhD students Heather Chia-Chien Hsu and Shengyue Piao!

November 16, 2022 – Congratulations to Tyler Graf for publishing in Science Translational Medicine!

November 10, 2022 – Dr. McHugh has received a co-appointment in the Department of Chemistry.

October 28, 2022 – Dr. McHugh has received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Sontag Foundation to develop an immunotherapy for brain cancer.

October 12-15, 2022 – The lab attends the BMES Annual Meeting in San Antonio, where
Erin, Marina, and Mei-Li presented posters and Brett, Lynna, and Tyler gave oral presentations.

      

October 19, 2022 – Congratulations to Lynna Baryakova on passing her Thesis Proposal! 

October 12, 2022 – Congratulations to Erin Euliano for publishing in Science Translational Medicine!

September 23, 2022 – Congratulations to Marina Yu for passing her Thesis Proposal!

September 8, 2022 – Congratulations to Brett Pogostin for publishing in Biomaterials Science!

 

September 1, 2022 – The lab wins the John S. Dunn Foundation Award in collaboration with Dr. Robert Jenq at MD Anderson

September 1, 2022 – Congratulations to Mei-Li Laracuente for being named an NIH Graduate Fellow!

August 5, 2022 – Congratulations to Valentina Ortega for earning top honors at the IBB Summer Research Symposium!

July 12, 2022 – The lab wins a grant from the Sarcoma Foundation of America

June 7, 2022 – Congratulations to Erin Euliano for passing her Thesis Proposal!

February 28, 2022 – The laboratory welcomes Postdoctoral Scholar Miusi Shi, M.D.!

 

February 17, 2022 – Congratulations to Mei-Li Laracuente for being named a Rice University Innovation Fellow!

January 3, 2022 – The laboratory welcomes lab technician Sarah Melhorn!

December 15, 2021 – Congratulations to Brett Pogostin for passing his Thesis Proposal!

 

November 19, 2021 – Congratulations to Mei-Li Laracuente for passing her Thesis Proposal!

May 4, 2021 – Congratulations to Dhruv, Sherry, and Tyler for publishing in AAPS!

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May 13, 2021 – Congratulations to Sherry Yue Qiu for defending her Master’s Thesis!

May 12, 2021 – Congratulations to Dhruv Varshney for defending his Master’s Thesis!

May 4, 2021 – The laboratory welcomes BIOE Master’s Student Gautham Budaraju to the group!

March 23, 2021 – Congratulations to lab member Lynna Baryakova for being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

March 15, 2021 – The lab wins an R03 Grant from the NIBIB to study electrosprayed drug delivery systems

March 1, 2021 – The lab wins the Genentech Age-Related Macular Degeneration Research Fellowship

November 10, 2020 – Congratulations to Mei-Li and Marina for publishing in the Journal of Controlled Release!

October 12, 2020 – The laboratory welcomes BIOE Ph.D. student Lynna Baryakova to the group!

August 10, 2020 – The lab wins a K22 Grant from the NIAID to study vaccine delivery systems

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September 14, 2020 – The laboratory welcomes BIOE masters students Sherry Yue Qiu and Dhruv Varshney!

August 12, 2020 – Congratulations to Tyler Graf for publishing on the cover of Science Translational Medicine!

March 31, 2020 – Congratulations to lab member Brett Pogostin for being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

December 3, 2019 – The laboratory welcomes bioengineering graduate students Tyler Graf, Marina Yu, Mei-Li Laracuente, and Brett Pogostin!