Alyson Camacho (1st year PhD student, Chemical and Biological Engineering) joins the lab after an outstanding performance in her PhD qualifiers. Alyson did her undergraduate work at Brigham Young University, where she performed research in Prof. William Pitt’s lab. She will be designing experimental workflows and computational pipelines for machine-guided polymer discovery for genome editor protein delivery.
Jordan won first prize for her poster “Synthesis and Characterization of a Statistical Terpolymer Library for Synthetic Gene Delivery Systems” summarizing her work as a SURF scholar over the summer with Jessica Lawson. Around 60 undergraduates participated in this competition. Congratulations, Jordan! 
Ram was selected to present a poster based on his RSC Applied Polymers paper at the Gordon Research Conference (Drug Carrier Design for Cell and Tissue Specific Delivery) in Portland, Maine. Ram was awarded a Postdoctoral/Research Associate Travel Grant from Mines to attend this conference. Congratulations, Ram!
The Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation “provides financial awards to academically outstanding students who are US citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering, math, technology, and medical research.” Congratulations to Caitlyn for being selected as an ARCS scholar and for joining “an impressive, influential and growing community”.
Jessica delivered a talk on her recent work. Adam presented a poster.Congratulations to both of them on their first national conference presentations!
Congratulations to Aryelle on completing her masters’ thesis. We wish her the best as she starts a new job at Irvine at Abbvie Pharmaceuticals!
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Caitlyn has been selected for supplemental funding by NIBIB. She will be developing and testing polymer brushes for growth factor immobilization.
We are grateful to the Children’s Hospital of Colorado and the RTT office at Mines for a $10,000 pilot award to design mucopenetrative nanocarriers for inhalable gene therapeutics for treating cystic fibrosis (CF) and primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD). We are excited to collaborate with Dr. Scott Sagel, who directs the the CF and PCD Clinical and Research Centers at CHCO.
Claire took home the first prize, edging out 11 other Mines students in the oral presentation competition. Caitlyn’s poster was recognized as the best poster among freshmen. Check out the results here 