Lab News
April 9-10, 2024 – Tyler and Emily attended the GCC 4th Annual Future of Immunology Symposium in Houston, where Tyler gave a talk and Emily gave a lightning talk and won the ‘Fan Favorite’ award!
April, 2024 – Congratulations to lab member Emily Henrich for being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
April 5, 2024 – Erin successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Euliano!
March 6, 2024 – Brett successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Pogostin!
February 2024 – The lab attended the BIOE Research Retreat, where Lynna gave a flash talk and Erin won the 5th year poster award!
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!
May 13, 2021 – Congratulations to Sherry Yue Qiu for defending her Master’s Thesis!
May 4, 2021 – The laboratory welcomes BIOE Master’s Student Gautham Budaraju to the group!
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
August 10, 2020 – The lab wins a K22 Grant from the NIAID to study vaccine delivery systems