March 19, 2013
Congrats to Vina for successfully defending her dissertation!
January 30, 2013
The first news of the year 2013 goes to Mira and company for their recent PNAS publication detailing their "jelly bean" PODS!
December 1, 2012
Congrats to Ryan Hill for being promoted to Senior Research Scientist!
November 1, 2012
Congrats to Vina and her husband as they are now the proud parents of Miss Aina (pronounced EYE-NUH) Elizabeth Koh!
August 30, 2012
Congrats to Ryan and Tosh as their collaborative work with the Smith, Maier, and Pendry groups has been published in Science! Check out the cover art as well!
July 21, 2012
Congrats to Chilkoti Group and Cohorts (Dewhirst and Zalutsky) as they have recently secured 2 new R01 grants: one to combat tumors with engineered thermally responsive multivalency and another to improve the delivery of drugs in general using the unique properties elastin-esque biopolymers…
April 11, 2012
Congrats to Kelli for winning a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! A note to all you new incoming students: get your fellowship application writing skillz ready for the next fellowship solicitation!
April 10, 2012
Team Chilkoti Group (TCG) was awarded a NIH grant to study Protease Operated Depots (PODs) as a new trojan-horse type of drug delivery platform!
March 30, 2012
Mira defended her dissertation today, putting up what is probably a record time for PHD completion in the Chilkoti Group. Congrats to Mira!
November 16, 2011
Team Chilkoti Group (TCG) was awarded a grant from the NIH NIDDK to develop peptide therapeutics for Type 2 Diabetes using stealth polymer technology.
April 19, 2011
Congrats to Andy and Tosh as their work with Alexander Valencia and Rihe Liu was featured in an ACS Nano Virtual Issue highlighting the use of Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery!
January 31, 2011
Congrats AGAIN to Mira, Felipe, Dan, and Tosh as their gene cloning and amplification techniques have been highlighted by Nature Materials News and Views!
January 24, 2011
Congrats to Mira, Felipe, Dan, and Tosh on their recent Nature Materials paper! They share with the world their novel, high-throughput gene encoding technique that facilitates the discovery of "smart" protein polymers!
October 27, 2010
Congrats to Weiping, Wenge, Trine, Michael Zalutsky, and Tosh for their recent paper published in PNAS!
May 12, 2010
We have lots of awards and announements to make here at the end of the spring semester. Congratulations to Sarah for taking home first prize in the annual BME departmental retreat poster competition! She hopes to use her cash prize to help procure a baby mini horse! Also, congrats to Greg,…
