Thrilled to congratulate Elizabeth Gurysh on her first-author paper in Nature Portfolio, showcasing exciting work on immunotherapy-driven clearance of orthotopic glioblastoma. Open Access: rdcu.be/eIJmv

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk

Postdoc Opportunity at UNC Chapel Hill in the Ainslie Lab (pls repost)! The Ainslie Lab is looking for a Post Doc researcher to join our autoimmune tolerance project focused on multiple sclerosis. Details & application info: lnkd.in/e473J_Tw

Group lunch at the newly reopened Med Deli! Great to see it open again and wonderful food as always!

Congrats High School student Jacob Bachelder on your first author pre-print publication in Chemrxiv! "Six-Array Transepithelial Electrical Resistance Device" doi.org/10.26434/che...

Congrats Ryan Woodring on your 1st author pub "Biodegradable nanofibrous scaffolds enhance standard of care for glioblastoma via localized targeted therapy" Open Access: go.unc.edu/AinslieLabTMZ

Over the years, I’ve baked cupcakes for lab members’ birthdays, colleagues at work, and friends in my neighborhood. Some of the students in the division asked me to collect the recipes, so I’ve put them together in a free PDF download: go.unc.edu/Cakes Enjoy! 🧁

High-dose flu shots associated with protection against myocarditis or pericarditis compared with regular flu shots in the largest individually randomized trial of an enhanced influenza vaccine. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Two memes of the week this week!

Welcoming the lab back to the 1st week of classes w/ homemade lunch! Korean beef rice bowl, Roasted veggie over an orzo, garbanzo & feta salad, Southwest chix farro bowl w/ grilled corn, black beans, pico de gallo, roasted onion & peppers, & cauliflower & Cashew barley bowl with baked tofu

Our lab's meme of the week this week! I'm a sucker for any Schitt's Creek meme.

Some lab birthday treats from this summer. Double decadence brownies, peach upside down cake, lemon cupcakes, and reverse cookies & cream cupcakes.

I’m looking forward to presenting at the Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting today during Tech Session VI: Immuno Delivery III! 🗓 Thursday, July 17, 2025 🕟 4:30 PM EDT 📍 Room 119 B

JCR Article double feature alert! Intranasal influenza vaccine w/ a nanocomplex particulate adjuvant targeting mast cells & TLR9 doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... Multivalent subunit influenza vaccine using mixed polymeric microparticle degradation rates doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... @dpmp-unc.bsky.social

Inspired by CRS meeting - A new Micro/Nanotechnology for Therapeutic, Vaccine, and Imaging Applications timeline! Original article Stiepel et al.: doi.org/10.1002/btm2... Link timelines: ainslielab.web.unc.edu/support/ Editable timeline: docs.google.com/presentation... @dpmp-unc.bsky.social

Excited to be co-chairing a fantastic Immuno Delivery session at the CRS this Wednesday alongside Helena Florindo! We have an outstanding lineup of speakers : ✨ Ayelet David ✨ Vincent J. Venditto ✨ Paul Sagoe ✨ Milan paul ✨ Ana Baião ✨ David Peeler ✨ Madhan Mohan Chandra Sekhar Jaggarapu

I’m looking forward to presenting at the CRS Meeting Thursday during Tech Session VI: Immuno Delivery III! 🗓 Thurs 7/17/25 🕟 4:30 PM 📍 Room 119 B My talk, “Engineering Tolerance: Acetalated Dextran Microparticles in the Generation of B-regs and T-regs,”

Great to visit UMich Pharmacy and thanks for the swag!

Congrats Nicole Rose on your successful PhD defense!! 🎉🎉

Pics from Nicole's graduation party! 🎉🎉

Congrats Sophie on your review! Open Access: www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

A peach upside down cake for my lab tech Allie's birthday! 🍑

AIMBE has launched our new Citizen Advocate for Science Letter: takeaction.io/aimbe/scienc... We ask the broader scientific community to widely share this letter (✍️ <1 minute) with friends, family, and other concerned citizens to urge their elected officials to protect biomedical research funding 👇

Cancer vaccines will be a big part of the future of immunotherapy. A new, super review @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

What's $40k+ a year in unexpected publishing costs in these turbulent times! 😆😭

Some reverse cookies and cream cupcakes made with Chocolate Pretzel Oreos for a lab member's bday

50d free: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lF6fcI2-9... "Optimizing delivery in a multivalent subunit influenza vaccine using mixed polymeric microparticle degradation rates" We show that changing polymer particle degradation rate in a multivalent influenza vaccine can reduce antigen dominance.

I brought in some cupcakes for my friends and collogues across campus!

50d free: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l8cjcI2-9... Congrats Luis on your 1st author paper! We identified a potent mast cell-activating peptide (MP12W) that, when combined with CpG, forms a nanoparticle intranasal vaccine providing broad protection against H1 influenza. @dpmp-unc.bsky.social

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!

We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international) We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc. Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Celebrating Smallpox Eradication Day with cupcakes in the lab! 🎉 Before vaccination, smallpox killed ~500 million people in the 20th century alone. Thanks to a global vaccination campaign, smallpox became the first human disease to be eradicated May 8, 1980 - Vaccines work!

Congratulations Grace on receiving Best Poster Presentation at the Women in Science Poster forum! 🎉

🚨 AIMBE is calling on the biomedical research community to take a minute to send our 3 new advocacy letters urging Congress to: 1. Protect the STEM Training Pipeline (e.g., NIH MOSAIC, T32s, MARC, etc.) 2. Oppose Indirect Cost Caps 3. Support Research Funding in FY2026 aimbe.org/advocate/wri...

Thanks Alston Ridge Middle School for letting me hang out all day to talk about nanotechnology and help students make alginate micro particles!

Meme of the week!

Congratulations to Sophia Ly and Elvis Tanyi for presenting their posters as Abrams Scholars at the Joint UNC/NC State BME Poster Symposium! 👏

New pub from @kristy-ainslie-lab.bsky.social in RSC Biomaterials Science Journal. "Supervised machine learning for predicting drug release from acetalated dextran nanofibers" Link doi.org/10.1039/D5BM...

🎉 Big thanks to DPMP and NC State/UNC BME grad students for joining our elementary school science event! 🧪🔍 We had a blast helping students solve the mystery of the broken cookie jar and exploring the world of medicine-making.

"Supervised machine learning for predicting drug release from acetalated dextran nanofibers" is now out in RSC Biomaterials Science doi.org/10.1039/D5BM...

This week's meme of the week!

This week's meme of the week! #sciencememe

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out Ryan Woodring's 1st author publication "Supervised Machine Learning for Predicting Drug Release from Acetalated Dextran Nanofibers" Just accepted: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... We show that drug release is dictated by scaffold parameters not drug physiochemical properties.

📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky scienceimpacts.org

When you find a meme that hits a little too close to lab right now!

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

Great to hear our review "Metal-organic coordination polymers for delivery of immunomodulatory agents, and infectious disease and cancer vaccines" in WIREs Nanomedicine and [email protected] is among our top 10 most-cited papers published! doi.org/10.1002/wnan...

Looking forward to presenting at NC State's SFB Biomaterials Day April 4! Still time to register (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...) or submit an abstract (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...)