A Special Issue on Living Drug Carriers in the Journal of Controlled Release! Microbial engineers, now is your chance to show off the power of microbes for drug delivery! Submit here - www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Guest editors - @julienguyenlab.bsky.social, Paul Joyce, & myself

@aaup.bsky.social & @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social act for faculty. Below is the letter we sent to the UNC-CH Board of Trustees today about their shocking decision to delay action on tenure & promotion recommendations except those from the Health Affairs schools. Join us to advocate for academic freedom.

What happens when you trap probiotic bacteria inside gels? Turns out, not all bugs react the same way. We trapped gram-negative and gram-positive probiotic bacteria in gels with varying stiffnesses and saw what they did. Here's the study - tinyurl.com/Probiogel TLDR highlights in this thread 👇

One of the absolute highlights of my job is getting to hood my PhD students at graduation. This summer, I’m thrilled to celebrate three amazing students who are finishing their PhDs. Can’t wait to see what they do next!

A gene-editing treatment used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases #NBTNewsBeat www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

Special Issue in @JCRnEDITORS honors Dr. Leaf Huang—a pioneer in drug & gene delivery. Pioneering advances from liposomes to immunotherapy. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... Kudos to @kristy-ainslie-lab.bsky.social, @julienguyenlab.bsky.social, Dr. Olivia Merkel & Dr. Yunching Chen for curating it!

If your institution/organization is interested in joining FoNIBIB, please fill out our interest form here: aimbe.wufoo.com/forms/q1td4w... Follow @friendsofnibib.bsky.social to learn more about coalition activities and NIBIB-related updates. Researchers, your voice is more important now than ever.

We are concerned about the proposed NIH budget cuts and possible consolidation of NIBIB. Related statement: friendsofnibib.org/letter-writi...) We urgently need collective advocacy for policies that support the development of NIBIB-funded life-changing medical & biological engineering technologies.

Honored to have @julienguyenlab.bsky.social and Brian Miller be awarded a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Breast SPORE Developmental Research Program Award to help support breast cancer research. Great work!

New publication out in Digestive Diseases and Science Journal, in collaboration with @julienguyenlab.bsky.social “Engineered Probiotic Saccharomyces boulardii Reduces Colitis-Associated Colorectal Cancer Burden in Mice” rdcu.be/eibPU

Thrilled to announce that @julienguyenlab.bsky.social in collaboration with Dr. Tom Egan received an NIH R21 grant. This funding will support work on “Novel innovative ultra-elastic and instantly adhesive hydrogel patches to prevent air leak after lung surgery”

Who would've thought you could play Bingo with posters? Introducing #PosterBingo for the Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting! Inspired by an idea #AssafZinger and his students had! See you in Philly! youtu.be/xMpxLsW-2QA?...

New publication out in Digestive Diseases and Sciences in collaboration with @julienguyenlab.bsky.social “Engineered Probiotic Saccharomyces boulardii Reduces Colitis-Associated Colorectal Cancer Burden in Mice” 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

AIMBE's new fact sheets highlighting the NIH & NSF as economic engines have dropped at lnkd.in/ePRGWqnC! Did you know that every $1 in NIH research funding yielded $2.56 in new economic activity in the U.S.? NIH-funded research also supported over 400,000 jobs across the nation in FY2024!

The 3/14 deadline to finalize the FY2025 budget is fast approaching! ⌛ AIMBE has developed a new advocacy letter (<1 min to send) for the scientific community to urge Congress to support our federal science agencies, including NIH, NSF, FDA, ARPA-H, CDMRP, and more 👇 takeaction.io/aimbe/suppor...

Great talk by @julienguyenlab.bsky.social at 19th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Drug Delivery Systems (RADDS) at Univ of Utah in beautiful Salt Lake City!

AIMBE has developed a new advocacy letter on the changes to NIH indirect cost rates: aimbe.org/advocate/wri... We urge the broader biomedical research community to customize this letter (<1 minute) to contact your congressional representatives about the severe consequences of this new policy 👇

Check out the economic impact of NIH funding in your state! www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Check out this publication on a pharmacy initiative co-led by some of our @aimbe-official.bsky.social Fellows, Drs. Kristy Ainslie and Juliane Nguyen! Featuring insights our own AIMBE Executive Director, Dr. Dawn Beraud (@dawnberaud.bsky.social), about the importance of advocacy 👇 #SciencePolicy

It was great to connect with this group. Science advocacy is more important now than ever!

@julienguyenlab.bsky.social & I organized leaders from Pharmacy Schools to discuss AI in grad ed, financial support challenges & science advocacy w/ @dawnberaud.bsky.social. Also a NextProf PharmSci program. Many of these discussions are relevant to all grad ed. Open Access: rdcu.be/d8D7A

Funding delays and policy changes are disrupting labs, jeopardizing jobs, and putting the future of science and biomedical engineering at risk. Trainees and early-career researchers are being hit hardest. @aimbe-official.bsky.social is taking action. Read our statement & send a letter to Congress

AIMBE has posted a public statement on the impact of federal policy changes on biomedical research: aimbe.org/advocate/wri... Above, we have also developed an advocacy letter for members of the medical & biological engineering community to send to their congressional representatives on this matter.

Excited to share that our work on #adhesive #auxetic #patches for dynamic organ repair has been funded by the NHLBI! These patches are highly stretchable and adaptable, making them suitable for a variety of organs, and they can deliver therapeutics while providing sustained release.

@glassmanlab.bsky.social is leading this special issue titled "Pharmacology of Next Generation Therapeutics," which I am excited to co-edit! ASPET & the PhRMA Foundation will provide a $5,000 Challenge Award to up to five trainees for outstanding papers accepted for this JPET special collection!

Sending Warm Holiday Wishes from Our Lab to Yours!

Congrats to my PhD student Omar Budayr on his 1st author review titled: Harnessing extracellular vesicle-mediated crosstalk between T cells and cancer cells for therapeutic applications Use this link for 50 days of free access to the article: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kHALcI2-5...

Congratulations to Nguyen Lab's PhD student for being awarded the @PhRMAfoundation Predoctoral Fellowship in Drug Delivery! This recognition is truly well deserved. Way to go, Ameya! www.phrmafoundation.org/news-events/...

Grad applications, including letters, must be received by December 3rd! Learn more here: youtu.be/hYwKWXHWYuQ?...