Laboratory for Nanotherapeutics Research

Department of Bioengineering

Suhlab News

2007

· Welcome NSF REU intern, Isis Trenchard!

· Congratulations Kellie for winning the Rice Bioengineering Dept Outstanding TA award!

· Congratulations Kellie for winning the NSF Graduate Fellowship!

· We have been awarded a pilot grant from the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology!

2008

· We have been awarded a grant from the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology!

· Congratulations Clive for winning the Edgar O’Rear Travel Award!

· Congratulations Justin for obtaining the NIH Biotechnology Training Grant!

· Congratulations Justin for winning the Best Poster in Biochemistry Award at the IBB symposium!

· We have been awarded the Hamill Innovation Award by the Institute for Biosciences and Bioengineering!

· Congratulations Joseph for winning the Brown Undergraduate Research Internship Program Award!

· Congratulations Justin for achieving Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Fellowship!

· Congratulations Joseph for winning the Best Poster in Engineering Award at the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium!

· Congratulations Kash for winning 2nd place Grand Prize in Medicine and Health at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair!

· Congratulations Kash for placing 1st in Medicine and Health at the Science and Engineering Fair of Houston!

2009

· We have been awarded a $3M NIH Grand Opportunities grant! We are part of the multi-institutional team that will investigate correlations between a nanoparticle’s physicochemical properties and its intracellular transport. Read on...

· Congrats to Kellie for winning an AIChE WIC Travel Grant! The award will support Kellie’s travel to AIChE this fall where she will present 2 talks.

· We have been awarded the DOD Breast Cancer Concept Award!

· Welcome NSF REU intern Erica Taylor & Texas Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Summer Research Program in Nanotechnology Batoul Abuharb!

· Congratulations Kellie for winning the Rice Bioengineering Department Outstanding TA award again!

· Congratulations Justin for achieving Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Fellowship!

· Congrats to Kash for placing 3rd place in Medicine and Health at the Science and Engineering Fair of Houston!

· Congratulations Joseph for winning the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship!

2010

· We have been awarded a DOD Breast Cancer Concept Award! Fang Wei, a postdoc in our lab, is the PI on the grant. Read on...

· Justin has been awarded the IBB Edgar O’Rear Travel Award to attend AIChE and BMES annual meetings this fall! Congrats!

· Congrats Chris for being accepted into the NIH Nanobiology Interdisciplinary Training Program!

· Congrats Diane for getting into the Michael E. DeBakey Summer Surgery Program!

· Kash is going to college! He got into every university he applied for, including the Ivies. He will be heading to Washington University in St. Louis for their joint B.S./M.D. program...on a full ride!

· Joseph has been awarded a Hertz Fellowship as well as an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Congrats Joseph! Read on...

· We have been awarded an Ovarian Cancer SPORE Career Development Program Award from MD Anderson Cancer Center!

· We have been awarded an NSF CAREER Award! The grant will support our lab for 5 years. Read on...

· Kellie won an Honorable Mention at Biomaterials Day at Texas A&M! Congrats! She was 1 of 4 posters selected for recognition (out of 43 total).

2011

· Congrats Michelle for being accepted into the NIH Nanobiology Interdisciplinary Training Program!

· Kellie’s paper has been accepted to BioTechniques!

· Congrats Fang for being promoted to Research Scientist!

· Congrats Chris for winning the Rice BIOE Outstanding TA Award!

· Congrats Kellie for being selected as one of the 2011 Mary Frances Dunnam Morse Graduate Fellows! As part of the award, she will be presenting at the 2011 Life Science Venture Forum at Rice.

· Matt, Kellie, Jerry, Fang, and Clive’s paper has been accepted to Biomacromolecules!

· Congrats to Kellie for successfully defending her PhD thesis!

· Erin has been accepted into the Northwestern U Materials Research Science & Engineering REU!

· Andy & Thomas both did very well at the Regional Science Fair! Andy received 1st place in Biochemistry/Microbiology and Thomas received 1st place in Medicine & Health. They will both be advancing to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Good work!

· We have been awarded the Texas Center for Cancer Nanomedicine (TCCN) pilot grant! The project is focused on developing targeted virus nanoparticles for ovarian cancer treatment.

· Matt is graduating from his medical fellowship!

· Diane has been accepted to the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) summer research program!

· Michael has been accepted to the Mass General Hospital Summer Research Trainee Program (SRTP) & the UT Southwestern Medical School R25 summer program!

· Kellie’s paper has been accepted at Soft Matter!

· Chris, Feiran, and Daniela’s review paper has been accepted at Nanomedicine!