Please join me in congratulating Hannah and Sophie for publication of their parylene paper today in ACS Applied Bio Materials! We are excited to share their work showing that despite the severe toxicity of the resins used for light-based 3D printing, a simple chemical coating with parylene-C completely protected fragile primary cells (mouse splenocytes). The same coating protected the device from eroding and absorbing water during experiments. Please read the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsabm.3c00444.
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Erin Lawrence appointed to the NIH Biotechnology Training Grant!
Congratulations to Erin for her appointment to the highly competitive T32 training grant for Biotechnology at UVA this year! In addition to supporting her graduate studies and research, this appointment provides additional coursework and an externship in a biotechnology company of her choosing, to prepare future researchers for careers in biotech. We are very proud of her and her ongoing research on building a multi-tissue model of vaccination.
Welcome Julian Bowes!
Julian is joining us as a lab and research technician with plans to attend graduate school in the future. He received a BS in Chemistry and minor in Psychology from UVA as an undergraduate student. Currently, he is working with in-tissue spatially resolved analysis.
Congratulations to Katrina for winning the UVA Cancer Center Trainee Fellowship!
Katrina’s project, The impact of tumor-draining lymph node remodeling on tumor cell invasiveness, was selected as an awardee for the UVA Cancer Center Trainee Fellowship! This was a competitive process, and her significant and exciting progress on her research progress in the past year was cited as a major strength of the renewal application. Congratulations to Katerina on this well-deserved recognition of your accomplishments and plans!
Congratulations to Hannah for winning 1st place in the 3 Minute Research Showcase competition and Djuro for winning a Trainee Poster Award!
We are so proud of Hannah and Djuro for their achievements at MSB 2023 in Tallahasse Florida, co-Chaired by Mike Roper, Jim Edwards, and Professor Pompano!
Congratulations to Izzy for receiving the Lester Andrews Undergraduate Research Fellowship in UVA Chemistry!
This award will fund her work this summer, as she pivots from her nearly-completed project on analyzing the crosslinking of biomaterials, to using those biomaterials to advance cell responses in our lymph node chip system. She and her mentor Jon Zatorski took a big leap to write up the proposal on the next project, and it paid off. Congratulations Izzy on this great accomplishment!
Professor Pompano and Parris Present at Pittcon!
Parris Anbaei and Prof. Pompano travelled to Philadelphia for the first in-person Pittcon since 2020. We had a great time catching up with colleagues, and getting feedback on our research after two invited talks. Prof. Pompano presented in a symposium organized by lab alumna, Prof. Ashley Ross (Univ. Cincinnati), and Parris presented in a session organized by Sally Gowers from the Boutelle lab (Imperial College, UK).
Congratulations to Hannah for winning the Department of Chemistry's Hecht Fellowship for 2023-2024!
This is a very prestigious award that recognizes her excellence in research and leadership in the department. We are so proud of her many accomplishments!
Congratulations to Djuro for earning the Chemistry Department Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award!
Please join in congratulating Djuro for this well-earned achievement! Djuro has excelled as a teacher and as Head TA, a position that he was specially chosen for this year. Every week, Djuro helps oversee the learning of more than 1400 students and several dozen TAs. Great job Djuro!
Congratulations to Tiffany and Parris for the Harrison Fellowship!
This award will fund Tiffany's work this summer to look at the impact of oxygen availability and culture conditions on long-term human tonsil tissue culture. It's an area that we are all excited to move into, and also synergizes well with the experiments that Sahana and Erin are planning in mouse tissue. I am looking forward to seeing what we learn from these experiments! Congratulations Tiffany!
