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Dr. Nisarg Shah starts faculty position at UCSD

September 2, 2018

Congrats to Nisarg on his new faculty position at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego! His presence and scientific contributions will be greatly missed. Check out the cool stuff his lab is working on here: Nanoscale Materials and Cell Engineering Lab Read more about Dr. Nisarg Shah starts faculty position at UCSD

Congratulations to Brian Kwee

August 31, 2018

A big congrats to recent PhD graduate Brian Kwee, who is headed to Dr. Kyung Sung's Lab at the FDA to pursue his postdoctoral studies. His exceptional kindness, positive energy, and dedication will be missed by all. Congrats and best of luck in your new position Brian! Read more about Congratulations to Brian Kwee

Manuscripts published in Biomaterials and PNAS

August 20, 2018

Congrats to recent lab alumnus Max and team on their recent publications in Biomaterials and PNAS, which explore the effects on the microenvironmental material properties on various cells' transcriptional programs. Check them out here:

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Mooney lab summer students present research

August 4, 2018

Congrats to all Mooney lab undergraduates on a productive summer! Great to see such a wide breadth of projects ranging from cell biology to hydrogel mechanics.

Pictured from left: Calvin Marambo, Ege Eskibozkurt, Justine Keth, Luna Nadja Maldonado, Nikko Jeffries, Darnell Cuylear, Soore Oguntuyo, Anna Vaynrub, Evan Thompson

CD4 T-cells regulate angiogenesis and myogenesis published in Biomaterials

June 10, 2018

Congrats to Brian and team on their recent publication which looked at the role of various CD4+ T cell subsets on muscle regeneration. Check it out here: CD4 T-cells regulate angiogenesis and myogenesis!

Mooney Lab seniors honored for outstanding projects

May 15, 2018

Congrats to Mooney Lab senior undergraduates Erica Budina, Kristen Rodrigues, and Jacob Scherba on being honored by SEAS Dean Frank Doyle for the outstanding work on their thesis projects! Well done guys! Click here for the whole story.

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Biomaterial scaffold-based immunotherapy platforms licensed to Novartis

March 31, 2018

The Wyss Institute at Harvard Universtiy and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have entered a licensing and collaboration agreement with Novartis to develop our biomaterial systems to delivery next generation immunotherapies. Our approach uses an injectable or implantable biomaterial scaffold that recruits and trains the body's endogenous immune cells to identify and kill a patient's own cancerous cells. A big congratulations to Dave...

A facile approach to enhance antigen response for personalized cancer vaccination published in Nature Materials

March 22, 2018

Congrats to Aileen and team on their recent publication which looked at using polyethyleneimine (PEI) in mesoporous silica rod (MSR) vaccines to enhance antigen immunogenicity. The MSR-PEI vaccine substantially improved therapeutic outcomes in three challenging tumor models while enabling the presentation of large sets of neoantigens and synergizing with checkpoint blockade therapy. Check out their work here: ... Read more about A facile approach to enhance antigen response for personalized cancer vaccination published in Nature Materials

Injectable, Tough Alginate Cryogels as Cancer Vaccines and Tough Composite Hydrogels with High Loading and Local Release of Biological Drugs published in Advanced Healthcare Materials

March 15, 2018

Congrats to Ting and Jianyu on their recent publications in Advanced Healthcare Materials. Ting's article explored using injectable, tough alginate cryogels as prophylactic cancer vaccines and Jianyu's article explored using tough composite hydrogels to enable high loading and sustained release...

Congratulations to Max Darnell

March 2, 2018

A big congrats to recent PhD graduate Max Darnell, who is headed to Georg Seelig's quantiative biology lab at the University of Washington to pursue his postdoctoral studies. His positive energy and expertise will be missed by all. Congrats and best of luck in your...

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