Mary Scroggs STEAM night!

The Ainslie Lab at the Raleigh NC Science March makes the Raleigh News and Observer AND our post doc Matt Gallovic is interviewed for NC State’s Student newspaper! Great work and great signs everyone! http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article208816599.htmlhttp://www.technicianonline.com/…/article_6f3c6cb4-4031-11e…#SceinceMarch #ScienceMatters

Congrats Naihan Chen for receiving the Feng Liu Graduate Student Award! Each year the award is given to an exemplary graduate student in the Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics who reflects Liu’s character. Dr. Liu was a wonderful scientist … Read more

We show that peak immune responses are reached using particles that degrade at different rates by encapsulating vaccine elements, antigen and adjuvant, in particles that degrade at fast, medium, and slow rates and observing their immune responses. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1WUtKcI2~mAaa

The Ainslie Lab almost sweeps the awards for the Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics Research Symposium! Congrats to Naihan, Kathryn, and Erica.

Our latest publication uses nanofibrous acetalated dextran scaffolds to slowly release the chemotherapeutic doxorubicin in the resection cavity made after the surgical removal of glioblastoma. In collaboration with Dr. Shawn Hingtgen. http://pubs.acs.org/d…/pdf/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b01114

Highlights from our lab holiday party. The gift exchange was a hit!

We report superior encapsulation of STING agonist cGAMP in Ac-DEX microparticles and its formulation and evaluation as an influenza vaccine that provides long-acting protection. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29170142

Congrats to Rebeca Thweatt for winning 2nd place at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) National Meeting for her poster “Drug Release of Paclitaxel from Ace-DEX Particles: an Experimental and Mathematical Model”!

Rebeca presented a poster on her summer research which was focused on modeling drug release from Ac-DEX nanoparticles.