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Emily Roloson defends her PhD thesis

September 28, 2026

Congratulations to Dr. Roloson on defending her doctoral thesis on Monday, August 17th, on Leveraging Muscle Mechanosensitivity to Improve Regeneration After Severe Injury. We are excited to see all that Emily is going to do in the future to improve the...

Nuria presents her work at the annual Wyss Retreat

June 01, 2026

Congrats to Nuria on her presentation "Regulatory T Cells in Tissue Regeneration" in the Healthy Aging panel at the 2026 Annual Wyss Retreat!

Implantable living materials autonomously deliver therapeutics using contained engineered bacteria

May 14, 2026

Congratulations to Tetsu and team for their new publication in Science on engineering bacteria for sustained drug delivery.

Favour Obuseh defends his PhD thesis

May 11, 2026

Congratulations to Dr. Obuseh on defending his doctoral thesis on Monday, May 4th, on Enhancing Gamma Delta (γδ) T-Cell Therapies Through Engineered Biochemical and Mechanical Microenvironments. Favour is going on to attend Yale School of Medicine to...

Nikko Jeffreys defends his thesis

September 30, 2024

Congratulations to Dr.Jeffreys on sucessfully defending his amazing thesis on applying mechanotransduction in human T-cell development to enhance immunotherapy. We are very proud of you :)

Subcutaneous biodegradable scaffolds for restimulating the antitumour activity of pre-administered CAR-T cells

June 06, 2024

Congrats to David, Josh, and team on their recent manuscript published in Nature Biomedical Engineering! Here, they boosted CAR T-cell activation and persistence in situ with injectable antigen presenting cell mimetic scaffolds. Check out the publication...

Shawn Kang and Kyle Ruark advance to PhD candidacy

May 25, 2024

Congrats to Shawn and Kyle on passing their qualifying exams! We are all so proud of you.

Mooney lab seniors graduate

May 24, 2024

Congrats to Ella, Azra, Nicole, and Andrew on wrapping up their senior theses in the lab! Ella and Azra are moving on to PhD programs at Sloan Kettering and Columbia University, Nicole will begin Law school at Stanford University, and Andrew will begin an...

Durable lymph-node expansion is associated with the efficacy of therapeutic vaccination

May 14, 2024

Congrats to Alex and team on their recent publication in Nature Biomedical Engineering! Check it out here: Durable lymph-node expansion is associated with the efficacy of therapeutic vaccination

Blake Hanan advances to PhD candidacy

May 14, 2024

Congrats to Blake on advancing to PhD candidacy! He passed his qualifying exam with flying colors.

Josh Price advances to PhD candidacy

April 29, 2024

Huge congrats to Josh on passing his qualifying exam! We are all proud of you.

Instant tough adhesion of polymer networks

March 11, 2024

Congrats to Ben and team on their recent publication in PNAS! Check out the publication here: Instant tough adhesion of polymer networks