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The article “Adjuvant-Loaded Spiky Gold Nanoparticles for Activation of Innate Immune Cells” appears in Cellular and Molecular Engineering.

In work started during his time at Rice University, Deepak Nagrath continues to research cancer cell metabolism and how cancer cells interact. Learning how the cells communicate could lead to new targets for more effective treatments than those currently is use.

Currently being used in a breast cancer clinical trial to isolate cancer cells in blood, Sunitha Nagrath and Max Wicha led the development of a hydrodynamic maze called the labyrinth chip. With its innovative design, the labyrinth chip allows researchers to capture cells for molecular analysis so they can know what to target with treatments.

BI director, Joerg Lahann, is part of the U-M team for the newly announced NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC). Led by Boston University, the NSF-ERC aims to grow new heart tissues. For more details on the award and team, please visit here.

The article entitled “Synthetic high-density lipoprotein nanodisks for targeted withalongolide delivery to adrenocortical carcinoma” was published in International Journal of Nanomedicine.

The findings are published in an article entitled “Self-encapsulating PLGA Microspheres for Intranasal Vaccine Delivery” in Molecular Pharmaceutics.

The article is entitled “Facile Affinity Maturation of Antibody Variable Domains Using Natural Diversity Mutagensis”.

“Nitric Oxide: The Forgotten Child of Tumor Metabolism” appears in Trends in Cancer

Peter Tessier has joined UM from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was named the Albert M. Mattocks Professor of Pharmaceutial Sciences and a Professor of Chemical Engineering. Welcome Peter!

Professor James Moon was awarded two NIH R01 awards.

One of the awards, “Tuning biomaterials-immune cell interactions for treatment of glioblastoma multiforme”, is a collaboration with Drs. Maria Castro and Pedro Lowenstein from the UM Department of Neurosurgery. This collaboration was initially formed during the Nanomedicine Challenge hosted by BI in 2013 and received seed funding from BI to develop nanoparticles that can be used for the treatment of Gliobastoma Multiforme.

Professor James Moon was awarded two NIH R01 awards.

One of the awards, “Tuning biomaterials-immune cell interactions for treatment of glioblastoma multiforme”, is a collaboration with Drs. Maria Castro and Pedro Lowenstein from the UM Department of Neurosurgery. This collaboration was initially formed during the Nanomedicine Challenge hosted by BI in 2013 and received seed funding from BI to develop nanoparticles that can be used for the treatment of Gliobastoma Multiforme.

Anna Schwendeman and James Moon recently published an article in Nature Materials reporting their work on designing nanodiscs for delivery of cancer therapies.

More details can be found in the article and the press release.

Anna Schwendeman and James Moon recently published an article in Nature Materials reporting their work on designing nanodiscs for delivery of cancer therapies.

More details can be found in the article and the press release.

Sunitha Nagrath was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Congratulations, Sunitha!