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Douti and Shannon receive BMES national meeting travel awards

8/31/2017

Congratulations to a couple folks from the lab who received awards for the upcoming national meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES):

--Lampouguin (Douti) Yenkoidiok-Douti, NSF Fellow, received the 2017 BMES-NSBE Student Travel Award

--Shannon Tsai, NIH Fellow, received the 2017 BMES Student Travel Award

Keep up the good work, and we'll see you in Phoenix!

Learn more about BMES, or follow the link to read more about Shannon and Douti on the team page.

Congratulations to our newest graduate, Neil Dold

8/26/2017

Best wishes to our newest alumnus, Neil Dold, who completed his M.S. in bioengineering this month. Congrats!!!

Good luck and stay in touch!

Dr. Jim Andorko receives 2016 Acta Biomaterialia Student Award

8/25/2017

Congratulations to Dr. Jim Andorko, who has received the 2016 Acta Biomaterialia Student Award for his paper "Intrinsic immunogenicity of rapidly-degradable polymers evolves during degradation". Jim is a recent graduate from the lab and currently a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University. The award and a cash prize will be presented at the national Materials Science & Technology meeting in Pittsburgh this October. Congrats Jim!

Click to read the award announcement or learn more about Dr. Andorko on the team page.

Jewell Lab paper receives Cellular & Molecular Bioengineering 2017 Editor's Choice Award

8/25/2017

A recent paper from the lab, "Targeted Programming of the Lymph Node Environment Causes Evolution of Local and Systemic Immunity", has received the 2017 Editor's Choice Award from Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. The award will be presented during the plenary session at the 2017 national meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society. Thanks tothe editorial board for this honor!

Follow the link to read more about Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.

Jessica and Jahnavi selected to present at BMES national meeting

8/24/2017

Congratulations to Jessica Yau, HHMI Fellow, and Jahnavi Muralidharan, NSF REU, who have each been selected to present their research at the national meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society this October in Phoenix, AZ. Congrats!

Read more on the team page.

Jewell lab and clinical collaborators awarded new translational seed grant

8/21/2017

The Jewell Lab, along with our collaborators, Dr. Agnes Azimzadeh, Dr. Richard Pierson, and Dr. Jonathan Bromberg have received a 2017 Innovation Seed Grant from the University of Maryland College Park and the University of Maryland Medical School. The award will support pilot translational studies to push the lab's autoimmune therapies forward. Thanks to both institutions for this generous support!

Follow the link to read more about the read more about the innovation seed program.

Professor Jewell authors new editorial for Science Translational Medicine

8/16/2017

This week's issue of Science Translational Medicine (STM) includes a new editorial by Prof. Jewell highlighting research that could help overcome drug-resistance bacteria by combining engineered peptides with targeting scaffolds that localize these agents to lung infection sites. Dr. Jewell is an Associate Scientific Advisor at STM.

Follow the link to read the editorial, "Resistance is futile", or read the featured paper by the Bhatia Lab (MIT) in Advanced Materials.

Neil Dold successfully defends M.S. thesis

8/3/2017

Congratulations to Neil Dold, NCI Graduate Fellow, who successfully defended his M.S. thesis. Congrats Neil!

Read more about Neil on the team page.

Josh and Arjun publish new paper in Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A

8/3/2017

Congratulations to Josh Gammon, Pharma Foundation Graduate Fellow, and Arjun Adapa (alumni), Fulbright Scholar, for a new paper they led in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. The work uses biocompatible liposomes to deliver drugs that regular immune cell metabolism to limit inflammation. Congrats!

Follow the link to read the full paper, or learn more about Josh and Arjun on the team page.

Lisa Tostanoski successfully defends PhD thesis!

8/1/2017

Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Tostanoski, NSF doctoral fellow in the lab, who successfully defended her PhD thesis. Lisa is our second PhD graduate and has kept the bar high! Congrats Lisa!

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