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Bass Instructional Fellowship

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

Chilkoti Receives Distinguished Alumni Award

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.

Science picks up the Nature Materials paper

Science picks up the Nature Materials paper! [link]

Sequence heuristics to encode phase behaviour in intrinsically disordered protein polymers

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

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

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

Mandana Presents at GradX

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 dru

Duke Basketball 2015

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

Tosh National Academy of Inventors

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

Chilkoti Brunch

The Chilkoti Group brunching it up for the holidays:

Sarah and Angus Defend

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

Sentilus Acquired by Immucor

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

Tosh BME Chair

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

DTRI Award

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. 

Joe and Sarah Awards

Congratulations to Sarah and Joe!  Sarah 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 Biopolymers.  Joe won a poster award at the retreat as well.  Sarah followed all this up with a Best Poster Award at…

Jeff, Stacey CBTE awards

Congratulations to Jeff and Stacey!  They both won service awards from CBTE at Duke, and Jeff also won a poster award.  Their awards were presented at the annual CBTE Kewaunee Lecture.