A big congrats to Meadhbh, who was recently awarded the prestigious ERC starting grant, on her faculty position at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) in a joint appointment between Medicine and Bioengineering. Her positive energy and important contributions will be greatly missed! We can't wait to hear about your future work and success! Read more about Dr. Meadhbh Brennan starts faculty position at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)

Check out Irene's News & Views on Sindhwani et al's important work investigating the entry of nanoparticles into tumors. See it here.

Read more about A Nanoparticle's Pathway Into Tumours

Congrats to David and Alex on their recent protocol which describes the synthesis and assembly of antigen presenting cell scaffolds. Check it out here: ... Read more about Activation and expansion of human T cells using artificial antigen-presenting cell scaffolds published in Nature Protocols

Congrats to Hua and team on their recent publication which describes DBCO-modified prodrugs of various immunosuppressive drugs and their targeted conjugation to azido-modified hydrogels via Click chemistry. Placement of these hydrogels in tissues facilitates sustained, local release of drugs and enables repeatable refilling via systemic administration of acid-labile prodrugs after drug...

Read more about Clickable, acid labile immunosuppressive prodrugs for in vivo targeting published in Biomaterial Science