We submitted a PCT (patent) application: International Patent Application for
Ambient Stabilization of mRNA-Hybrid Lipid Nanocapsules in Sugar Glass.
Congratulations to Sunil Yadava who was awarded a Quadrant-i grant to facilitate the commercialization of a novel nucleic acid stabilization and delivery technology.
Jessi Zahn Dixon graduated with a PhD in chemistry in June 20 25! Congratulations Dr. Dixon!
We were awarded a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry (CHE-2426182) to study the role of structural excitations in relaxation processes of liquids.
Professor Cicerone gave an invited lecture entitled “Understanding the Dynamics of Molecular Liquids From an Excitations Framework” in Capri, Italy at the conference Seeking Unifying Principles in Equilibrium and Driven Materials.
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.
