Lab Updates
October 2024 – The lab travels to Baltimore for the BMES 2024 Annual Meeting, where Peyton and Owen present posters on their thesis projects as part of the Drug Delivery track and Alex chairs two sessions (“Nucleic Acid Delivery” and “Drug Delivery and Immunomodulation”).
October 2024 – The PhRMA Foundation highlights Alex and the lab’s work funded by a 2024 Faculty Starter Grant in Drug Delivery!
October 2024 – Alex and Aaron Morris give a Lecture as part of Michigan Engineering’s DEI Lecture Series on the BME DEI Book Club that was supported by a College of Engineering DEI Faculty Grant!
September 2024 – Alex and Arianna travel to Boston for the 2024 NACFC Meeting, where Alex chairs a session (“Advances Along the Path to a Cure”) with collaborator John Lueck and gives a talk on the lab’s in utero gene delivery work!
September 2024 – Miriam Stevens joins the lab as our new Research Laboratory Specialist Associate; welcome, Miriam!
September 2024 – Peyton is a Retreat Chair for the Annual BME Graduate Student Retreat!
September 2024 – Varshini Kashyap joins the group as an Undergraduate Researcher. Welcome, Varshini!
September 2024 – Alex gives a talk as part of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department Seminar Series.
August 2024 – Owen and Peyton are both awarded a Rackham Conference Travel Grant to attend BMES 2024; congratulations, Owen and Peyton!
August 2024 – Maria Jennings joins the group as an BME Ph.D. Rotation Student. Welcome, Maria!
August 2024 – Aditi Ganesan joins the group as an Undergraduate Researcher. Welcome, Aditi!
August 2024 – Peyton is selected to participate in NextProf Pathfinder 2024; congratulations, Peyton!
August 2024 – Alex is part of a team of researchers including Lindsay Caverly, John LiPuma, and Michelle Hastings to be awarded a Program Development Award from the CFF to build a CF basic science research center at UM! Check out the Michigan Medicine press release here.
August 2024 – Arianna receives a Student Traineeship Award from the CFF; congratulations, Arianna! Check out UM BME’s press release!
July 2024 – The lab celebrates summer and having graduate student Valerie Lallo visit us from our collaborator Laura Bracaglia‘s lab at Villanova!
July 2024 – The lab receives a Faculty Starter Grant in Drug Delivery from the PhRMA Foundation! Check out Alex’s profile on their website and UM BME’s press release!
June 2024 – Alex moderates a session during the first CFF Summer Research Conference Pre-Conference Workshop for Junior Investigators in beautiful Stowe, Vermont.
June 2024 – Alex visits collaborator John Lueck at the University of Rochester and gives a seminar as part of the Pharmacology & Physiology Seminar Series.
June 2024 – Alex gives a talk titled “RNA: the delivery perspective” as part of UM’s RNA Innovation Seminar Series.
May 2024 – Alex’s paper on strategies to improve in vivo delivery of gene therapies by polymeric NPs is published in Nature Communications!
May 2024 – Arianna Graduates from UM with a BS in BME; congratulations, Arianna!
April 2024 – Peyton receives an Honorable Mention on her NSF-GRFP application; congratulations, Peyton!
April 2024 – The lab is featured in UM Center for Biomedicine’s RNA Translated Magazine!
March 2024 – Alex is honored to receive an Early Career EDGE in Tech Athena Award! This award recognizes those who “embody, encourage, and promote the inclusion of women and BIPOC in technology. Awardees are leaders who inspire others to pursue and persist in technical careers by way of their outstanding contributions, and service and mentorship to foster inclusion in science and technical fields.” Check out the press release here.
March 2024 – Alex attends her first Career Development Retreat hosted by the CFF! A great opportunity to spend time on professional development.
December 2023 – The lab celebrates the end of a successful first year! Congrats to Alaa for passing her ChemE candidacy exam!
December 2023 – The lab is awarded a Collaborative Research Grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation! We look forward to working with Michelle Hastings, Rachel Niederer, and Wren Michaels on RNA therapeutics for CF! Check out the press release here.
December 2023 – Alex travels to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to give a talk at the Emily’s Entourage Scientific Symposium.
December 2023 – The lab is awarded a research grant from Emily’s Entourage- our first one at UM! Press releases can be found here and here.
November 2023 – Alex travels to Phoenix, Arizona to chair a session and give a talk at the NACFC Annual Meeting.
November 2023 – Alaa Mwafy joins the lab as a ChemE graduate student co-advised with Greg Thurber!
September 2023 – Alex gives a talk at 3M as part of their seminar series.
September 2023 – Peyton officially joins the lab!
August 2023 – Alex and fellow Assistant Professor Aaron Morris are awarded a College of Engineering DEI Faculty Grant for the BME DEI Book Club!
August 2023 – Peyton Panovich joins the lab as a rotation student. Welcome, Peyton!
August 2023 – Karen gives a presentation on her UROP project in the lab!
July 2023 – Lab renovations are complete!
June 2023 – Alex travels to Big Sky, Montana to moderate a session at the annual Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Conference.
May 2023 – Karen Reynoso joins the group as a UROP student. Welcome, Karen!
May 2023 – Alex travels to Los Angeles, California for the ASGCT 2023 Annual Meeting to give an invited talk in the “Strategies to Deliver Genetic Therapies for Cystic Fibrosis” session.
May 2023 – Alex travels to Columbus, Ohio for the Ohio Valley CF Consortium Meeting to give a talk– her first one as a new PI!
March 2023 – Arianna Markey joins the group as our first Undergraduate Researcher. Welcome, Arianna!
March 2023 – Owen Kelly is selected for the BME Chair’s Award for Excellence. Congrats, Owen!
March 2023 – Owen Kelly accepts an offer to join the group as our first Ph.D. student in BME in Fall 2023. Welcome, Owen!
February 2023 – The DYNAMED lab opens (virtually) at the University of Michigan!