News

Advanced Materials

Congrats to Simone, Joe, and Tosh for their recently published work in Advanced Materials! Their work on creating novel photo-crosslinkable biomaterials using unnatural amino acids has also been highlighted in Advanced Science News.

Jason/Jay/Faris/Manav win HackDuke

Congrats to Faris, Jason, Jay, and Manav. They were awarded Best Healthcare Hack for their work at HackDuke 2017. They used Python software to completely automate a labor-intensive process in analyzing the D4 microarray. Check out their approach and their code here on Devpost.

Nature BME

Congrats to Kelli and Tosh. Their work on once-weekly injectable depots for type 2 diabetes has recently been published in Nature BME and highlighted in several other press releases.

Nature Chemistry

Congrats to Joe and Tosh as their work has been published in Nature Chemistry! Check out the cover art!

GCS award

Congratulations to National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge Scholar (GCS) award recipients Jay Gupta, Paige Detwiler, Amy Cheng, and Manav Avlani! These GCS awards will fund their research towards solving the Grand Challenges of ‘engineering better medicines/diagnostics’ and also ‘…

Faris Award

Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Faris Albarghouthi for being awarded 3rd place in a poster competition at the January KAUST conference in Atlanta, for his work on the synthesis and characterization of polymer brush films on high-k dielectrics for bioelectrical environments.  …

Stacey Nature Biomedical Engineering

Congratulations to Stacey—just as is she about to leave our lab— for the publication of her magnum opus from her PhD,  just published as one of the first two papers in the inaugural issue of a new Nature journal —Nature Biomedical Engineering.

Celebration of Eric and Stacey's Defense

The Chilkoti lab in celebration of Eric and Stacey's defense. Congratulations!

Chilkoti Makes Most Cited List for Materials Science and Engineering

Chilkoti Makes Most Cited List for Materials Science and Engineering

Eric's Defense

Congratulations Eric on defending your Ph.D. Now its back to to Med School to add a second degree and be a Dr.Dr. or is it (Dr.)2?

Prelim celebration

The Chilkoti Group in celebration of the hard work of Isaac, Caslin, Mandana, and Stefan for their prelim exams:

Belluci dissertation

Congrats to Dr. Belluci for defending his dissertation! Also, welcome to Garrett to begin his graduate work!

PepTalk 2016

Mandana presented at the Cambridge Healthtech Institute's PepTalk conference. Her poster was selected to be highlighted with a presentation: "Thermally Responsive TRAIL Receptor Agonist Fusions are Potent Cancer Therapeutics." She was the only PhD student to give a talk!

Traveling salesman uncorks synthetic biology bottleneck

Congratulations to Nick and Tosh for their paper in Nature Materials that solves the major bottleneck in the assembly of long repetitive DNA sequences.

IIT Delhi alumni award

Tosh’s speech at the alumni dinner on the occasion of receiving the IIT Delhi alumni award: [1].