Congratulations to Wei-Wen, who was awarded a two-year R21 (1R21AG086974-01) from NIA, “INVESTIGATING SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL HETEROGENEITY IN MITOCHONDRIA DURING AGING”
Congratulations to Rajas, who was selected for the 2023 Ziegler Best Paper Award for
Poorna, R., Chen, W.-W., Germond, A., Qiu, P. & Cicerone, M. T. Toward Gene-Correlated Spatially Resolved Metabolomics with Fingerprint Coherent Raman Imaging. J. Phys. Chem. B (2023) doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c01446.
As part of the award, Rajas gave a ChBE department lecture on Wednesday, August 30 2023.
Post-doc Sunil Yadava was awarded three years of funding for developing ambient-stabile RNA cancer vaccines.
Congratulations Sunil!
The US Department of Energy has provided three years of funding for the development and testing of a microscope based on coherent Raman scattering and highly sensitive coherence-gated detection that will enable our collaborators to better understand metabolic interactions between plant roots and bacteria that fix nitrogen for them. Professor Cicerone is the lead PI on the project that includes co-PIs Lily Cheung (ChBE), Francisco Robles (BME) and Joel Kostka (Biology)
The Curci Foundation has provided two years of funding for our group to explore the ability of Raman spectroscopy to uniquely identify functional states of biological systems. Successful demonstration of this idea will lead to simplified diagnostic strategies with potentially higher disease stratification than can now be realistically done for large numbers of patients.
The United States Food and Drug Administration has provided funding for us to use our BCARS microscope to help them look for evidence of aberrant immune response to Covid-19 in tissues taken from patients with severe disease.
Wei-Wen Chen was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in aging research from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research. This is a one year fellowship beginning October 1, 2020. Wei-Wen will spend three months of that time in Kaveh Ashrafi‘s lab at UCSD in San Francisco, California.
Congratulations Wei-Wen!
The Cicerone Group received a Phase 1 Business Development Award from the Georgia Research Alliance to develop compact coherent Raman instrumentation based on intellectual property generated in our lab. This 9-month award will prepare us to launch an independent business that will create jobs in Georgia.
Doctor Cicerone presented two tutorial lectures at the International School on Nonlinear Vibrational Spectro-microscopy (ICONS) on July 31. The event was originally scheduled to be held in Rome, Italy but was delivered online via Zoom.
Our work, entitled “Spectroscopic coherent Raman imaging of Caenorhabditis elegans reveals lipid particle diversity” was published in Nature Chemical Biology.