News

November 1, 2015

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

October 21, 2015

Congratulations to Parisa, who was awarded the Bass Instructional Fellowship for Spring 2016!

October 17, 2015

Congratulations to Tosh, who was awarded the 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. He will receive the honor later this month at a Convocation ceremony at his alma mater.

September 23, 2015

Science picks up the Nature Materials paper! [link]

September 22, 2015

Congratulations Felipe and Tosh on paper in Nature Materials! See here for press: [1], [2], and [3].

August 4, 2015

Hot off the press! New paper out in Nature Communications.

March 25, 2015

Mandana presented at the 2015 GradX talks (which were organized by our very own Samagya) for Grad Student Appreciation Week.  The title of the 6-minute talk to graduate students throughout Duke was "Faster, Better, Stronger Cancer Medicine: How can we engineer powerful drugs designed from our own proteins to kill cancer cells and learn about their underlying biology?"  Linked is a video of all the GradX talks; Mandana's talk occurs at 1hr 38mins.

January 20, 2015

Chilkoti Group members have been spotted taking in a recent Duke basketball game.

December 25, 2014

Tosh is honored to have been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors! (see also the Pratt article)

December 20, 2014

The Chilkoti Group brunching it up for the holidays:

November 18, 2014

Congrats to Drs. MacEwan and Hucknall!  They both defended their dissertations recently and hence are the new Docs on the block.

October 1, 2014

Congratulations to Tosh and Angus! Their company, Sentilus, has just been acquired by Immucor!  (Links:  MarketWatch, NCBiotech)

August 7, 2014

The group is excited to announce that Tosh will be the next Chair of Duke BME!  He begins this position officially on August 11.

June 3, 2014

Tosh and Kristin Newby are excited to have been awarded a Duke Translational Research Institute (DTRI) grant to develop a diagnostic platform to help chronic heart failure patients. 

May 15, 2014

Congratulations to Sarah and JoeSarah won a Rapid Fire Session award at the 2014 Duke BME Annual Retreat for her 1-slide pitch in the form of a poem; An Ode to BiopolymersJoe won a poster award at the retreat as well.  Sarah followed all this up with a Best Poster Award at the Duke University Frontiers Conference.  Great job!

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