♦ Oct 15, 2026: Ha Bui successfully defended her PhD thesis! Congratulations Dr. Bui!
♦ Sept 1, 2026: We are delighted to report on the funding of our Collaborative NIH R01, DE035735 "SaberGel, a Multimodal Delivery System for the Treatment of Oral Cancer". This funds the long time collaboration with with Dr. Simon Young (UTHSC) & Dr. Andy Sikora (MD Anderson).
♦ May 30, 2025: We received 'notice of award' for NSF Grant #2505948 "Self-Assembly of Collagen Triple Helices into Higher Order Structures"! We are super excited to use this to pursue our work related to peptide structure and conformation in large collagen and collagen-like assemblies!
♦ May 30, 2025: Congratulations to Arghadip for passing his qualifying exam and advancing to candidacy!
♦ May 22, 2025: Congratulations to Danielle for passing her qualifying exam and advancing to candidacy!
♦ May 12, 2025: Congratulations to Kianna for passing her qualifying exam and advancing to candidacy!
♦ Apr 29, 2025: Congratulations to Danielle and Arghadip for winning the Harry B. Weiser Teaching Award!
Apr 4, 2025: Joe successfully defended his thesis - Congratulations Dr. Swain!! (PhD #31)
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