Awesome news that we just received a PharmAlliance Research Clusters for Doctoral Training (PARCDT) with the amazing Karolina Dziemidowicz at UCL and Kristian Kempe at Monash. Our funding scheme is titled “Development of controlled release immunostimulatory biomaterials for cancer therapy”! … Read more
Phases of Matter Show Forensics show (students solve ‘Who Broke the Cookie Jar?’) DNA isolation Luminol Blood analysis Hair analysis Fingerprint Shoe Print Making medicines Alginate Particles Red cabbage pH Coffee filter diffusion Slime Write up for all the demos … Read more
Fantastic surprise shower for Liz’s 3rd baby! Ryan did a great job organizing the potluck w/ an Ainslie Lab baby guessing game.
New timelines: biologics, synthetic & inorganic carriers! Added: 1992 Membrane Coated NPs (PMID: 1333772) 1955 Poly-drug conjugate (PMID: 20672864) 1912 Anti-drug conjugate (PMID: 26845587) Modified from: https://aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/btm2.10421 Download: https://ainslielab.web.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/12416/2023/01/Stiepel-et-al.-timelines-Jan-2023.pptx
“Particle-Based Therapies for Antigen Specific Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36529362/
“Sustained Delivery of CpG by Ace-DEX MPs Augments Effector Response to COBRA Influenza HA” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36436743/
Women receive fewer/reduced awards, teaching scores, NIH $, pubs, invites to speak at colloquiums, & pub citations than males https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.2c00899
Thesis title: “Particle Carriers to Enhance Universal Influenza Vaccine Efficacy”
New publication from Stiepel et al. “A predictive mechanistic model of drug release from surface eroding polymeric NPs”. Using a bit of machine learning to predict drug release from polymeric microparticles. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36208792/
