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I’m looking forward to presenting at the CRS Meeting Thursday during Tech Session VI: Immuno Delivery III!

🗓 Thurs 7/17/25
🕟 4:30 PM
📍 Room 119 B

My talk, “Engineering Tolerance: Acetalated Dextran Microparticles in the Generation of B-regs and T-regs,”

50d free: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l8cjcI2-9...

Congrats Luis on your 1st author paper!

We identified a potent mast cell-activating peptide (MP12W) that, when combined with CpG, forms a nanoparticle intranasal vaccine providing broad protection against H1 influenza.

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Special Issue in @JCRnEDITORS honors Dr. Leaf Huang—a pioneer in drug & gene delivery. Pioneering advances from liposomes to immunotherapy.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

Kudos to @kristy-ainslie-lab.bsky.social, @julienguyenlab.bsky.social, Dr. Olivia Merkel & Dr. Yunching Chen for curating it!

Congratulations Grace on receiving Best Poster Presentation at the Women in Science Poster forum! 🎉

Thrilled to announce that @julienguyenlab.bsky.social
in collaboration with Dr. Tom Egan received an
NIH R21 grant. This funding will support work on “Novel innovative ultra-elastic and instantly adhesive hydrogel patches to prevent air leak after lung surgery”

Thrilled to share that 2 of our grad students were honored at
@uncgradschool.bsky.social Grad Student Recognition Celebration! Congrats Nicole Rose for winning the 3MT Competition & Alyssa Holden Prestigious External Fellowship Winner, as a NSF Fellowship recipient.

New pub from @kristy-ainslie-lab.bsky.social in RSC Biomaterials Science Journal.

"Supervised machine learning for predicting drug release from acetalated dextran nanofibers"

Link doi.org/10.1039/D5BM...

New publication out in Digestive Diseases and Science Journal, in collaboration with @julienguyenlab.bsky.social

“Engineered Probiotic Saccharomyces boulardii Reduces Colitis-Associated Colorectal Cancer Burden in Mice”

rdcu.be/eibPU

Congrats to Fenton Lab postdoc Vincent Fung for receiving a UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Mentorship Kudos Award for excelling in mentoring others in the lab.

Honored to have @julienguyenlab.bsky.social and Brian Miller be awarded a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Breast SPORE Developmental Research Program Award to help support breast cancer research. Great work!

🎉 Big thanks to DPMP and NC State/UNC BME grad students for joining our elementary school science event! 🧪🔍 We had a blast helping students solve the mystery of the broken cookie jar and exploring the world of medicine-making.

"Supervised machine learning for predicting drug release from acetalated dextran nanofibers" is now out in RSC Biomaterials Science

doi.org/10.1039/D5BM...

DPMP is Celebrating Grad Appreciation Week with cupcakes galore! 🎉 Huge thanks to our amazing DPMP grad students and all the ESOP grad students for their hard work and dedication! 🧁👏

Fantastic job by UNC Pharmacy PhD and PharmD students collaborating with UNC/NC State BME grad students at the UNC Science Expo! Engaging demos on pH with red cabbage, controlled release with alginate, and states of matter with a dry ice snake! Thanks volunteers!

New publication out in Digestive Diseases and Sciences in collaboration with @julienguyenlab.bsky.social
“Engineered Probiotic Saccharomyces boulardii Reduces Colitis-Associated Colorectal Cancer Burden in Mice”
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Latest pub in Molecular Pharmaceutics "Non-Viral RNA Therapies for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Their Corresponding Clinical Trials" From Fenton Lab
🔗 doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Check out Ryan Woodring's 1st author publication "Supervised Machine Learning for Predicting Drug Release from Acetalated Dextran Nanofibers"

Just accepted: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

We show that drug release is dictated by scaffold parameters not drug physiochemical properties.

Thanks @dpmp-unc.bsky.social grad student volunteers for joining me in exciting local middles schoolers about science! We did making medicines with alginate particles, emulsions & extracting DNA from strawberries. Also fire & ice with non-burning $, methanol cannon, crush the can & liquid nitrogen.

To cap off Recruitment Weekend @kristy-ainslie-lab.bsky.social Grad Students excelled at the Pharmaceutical Sciences Research & Graduate Education Retreat.

Ryan Woodring took 1st place for his 10min talk.

Sophie Mendell won for her poster presentation.
Congrats to all who took part!

We welcomed candidates to UNC & DPMP for in-person recruitment last week. Our grad student hosts showed them the ropes & we capped it off with a poster symposium showcasing cutting-edge research. Huge thanks to our hosts & everyone who participated in our poster symposium!

Sophie and Connor presenting their work at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy Research retreat

@kristy-ainslie-lab.bsky.social baked delicious cupcakes for our Spring Research Symposium today! This event brings together student recruits, current students, postdocs, and DPMP staff! 😋

Congrats George Barbery on your first author review in Small: "Biodegradable Polymers for Application as Robust Immunomodulatory Biomaterial Carrier Systems"

doi.org/10.1002/smll...

Congrats Connor Murphy on your 1st author review "Mast Cell Activators as Adjuvants for Intranasal Mucosal Vaccines"

Read up on this emerging adjuvant family for infectious disease vaccines!

50 day open access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kZmn_8cqB...

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@julienguyenlab.bsky.social & I organized leaders from Pharmacy Schools to discuss AI in grad ed, financial support challenges & science advocacy w/ @dawnberaud.bsky.social. Also a NextProf PharmSci program.

Many of these discussions are relevant to all grad ed.

Open Access: rdcu.be/d8D7A

New publication "Injectable Tumoricidal Neural Stem Cell-Laden Hydrogel for Treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme—An In Vivo Safety, Persistence, and Efficacy Study"

www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/17...

Congrats to the Sam Lai Lab and 1st author Peter Voorhees on new pub “Defining serine tRNA knockout as a strategy for effective repression of gene expression in organisms with a recoded genome” out now in NAR Nucleic Acids Research.

academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

New pub in ACS nano "Induction of Antigen-Specific Tolerance in a Multiple Sclerosis Model without Broad Immunosuppression"

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Mice treated at peak disease (paralyzed) become no longer paralyzed & can mount a protective response to an influenza vaccine.

Some collaborative work w/ cGAMP Ace-DEX MPs.

"Multi-COBRA hemagglutinin formulated w/ cGAMP MPs elicits protective immune responses against influenza viruses"

Open access: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Congrats Grace Williamson, Denzel Middleton, and Eric Bachelder on your recent editorial in Expert Opinions on Drug Delivery!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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