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,”

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!

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

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”

Thrilled to share that 2 of our grad students were honored at @uncgradschool.bsky.social Grad Student Recognition Celebration! Congrats Nicole Rose for winning the 3MT Competition & Alyssa Holden Prestigious External Fellowship Winner, as a NSF Fellowship recipient.

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...

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

Congrats to Fenton Lab postdoc Vincent Fung for receiving a UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Mentorship Kudos Award for excelling in mentoring others in the lab.

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!

🎉 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...

DPMP is Celebrating Grad Appreciation Week with cupcakes galore! 🎉 Huge thanks to our amazing DPMP grad students and all the ESOP grad students for their hard work and dedication! 🧁👏

Fantastic job by UNC Pharmacy PhD and PharmD students collaborating with UNC/NC State BME grad students at the UNC Science Expo! Engaging demos on pH with red cabbage, controlled release with alginate, and states of matter with a dry ice snake! Thanks volunteers!

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...

Latest pub in Molecular Pharmaceutics "Non-Viral RNA Therapies for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Their Corresponding Clinical Trials" From Fenton Lab 🔗 doi.org/10.1021/acs....

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.

Thanks @dpmp-unc.bsky.social grad student volunteers for joining me in exciting local middles schoolers about science! We did making medicines with alginate particles, emulsions & extracting DNA from strawberries. Also fire & ice with non-burning $, methanol cannon, crush the can & liquid nitrogen.

We welcomed candidates to UNC & DPMP for in-person recruitment last week. Our grad student hosts showed them the ropes & we capped it off with a poster symposium showcasing cutting-edge research. Huge thanks to our hosts & everyone who participated in our poster symposium!

Sophie and Connor presenting their work at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy Research retreat

@kristy-ainslie-lab.bsky.social baked delicious cupcakes for our Spring Research Symposium today! This event brings together student recruits, current students, postdocs, and DPMP staff! 😋

Congrats George Barbery on your first author review in Small: "Biodegradable Polymers for Application as Robust Immunomodulatory Biomaterial Carrier Systems" doi.org/10.1002/smll...

Congrats Connor Murphy on your 1st author review "Mast Cell Activators as Adjuvants for Intranasal Mucosal Vaccines" Read up on this emerging adjuvant family for infectious disease vaccines! 50 day open access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kZmn_8cqB... @dpmp-unc.bsky.social

@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

New publication "Injectable Tumoricidal Neural Stem Cell-Laden Hydrogel for Treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme—An In Vivo Safety, Persistence, and Efficacy Study" www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/17...

Congrats to the Sam Lai Lab and 1st author Peter Voorhees on new pub “Defining serine tRNA knockout as a strategy for effective repression of gene expression in organisms with a recoded genome” out now in NAR Nucleic Acids Research. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

New pub in ACS nano "Induction of Antigen-Specific Tolerance in a Multiple Sclerosis Model without Broad Immunosuppression" pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... Mice treated at peak disease (paralyzed) become no longer paralyzed & can mount a protective response to an influenza vaccine.

Some collaborative work w/ cGAMP Ace-DEX MPs. "Multi-COBRA hemagglutinin formulated w/ cGAMP MPs elicits protective immune responses against influenza viruses" Open access: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Congrats Grace Williamson, Denzel Middleton, and Eric Bachelder on your recent editorial in Expert Opinions on Drug Delivery! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @dpmp-unc.bsky.social

Congrats Marshall Fritz in the Sam Lai on successful defense of your PhD thesis! 👏

Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪 My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...

Any new folks to add?

Congrats Elizabeth Gurysh and Garrett Bethmann for receiving staff awards for a job very well done as part of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy holiday party!

¿Cómo funcionan las medicinas en el cuerpo? PhD candidate Andrés Prieto Trujillo tackles this on Cráneo: Ciencia para niños curiosos! Hear Andrés explore how medicine is made & works, while answering questions from young scientists. linktr.ee/craneociencia

Applications due in two days!

Congratulations to @kristy-ainslie-lab.bsky.social and her lab for the recent $2.7M NIH R01 award to explore polymeric microparticles to induce regulatory B cells to generate antigen specific immune tolerance.

This week we're thankful for DPMP Pies! Great seminar followed by an assortment of delicious pies, crumbles, and cupcakes, thank you to everyone who brought one. Have a great Thanksgiving!

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The 2024-2025 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 122 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/HPzAKkS1x44t... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

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

We are so thankful for our amazing DPMP students, post docs, faculty and staff!

Hi all, this starter pack definitely needs to do some growing - so please suggest new people. go.bsky.app/BYLDGaQ

Halloween gathering for DPMP folks. No tricks, just treats!

🎃 Missed our PhD program webinar? No worries! Catch the video here: youtu.be/hYwKWXHWYuQ Learn more about our program: pharmacy.unc.edu/divisions/dp... 🗓️ Applications due by December 3rd! Don’t be scared to apply! It’s a treat, not a trick! 👻🍬

Congrats Nicole Rose Lukesh on winning the UNC Grad School 3MT! You definitely deserve the champagne! Her thesis is antigen specific treatment of multiple sclerosis. She will not only win a cash prize, but a trip to Texas to compete nationally!

Missed Our Recruitment Webinar? No Problem! We have uploaded the recording so you can watch the full webinar here: pharmacy.unc.edu/divisions/dp... Applications for our PhD program must be received by December 3rd.

Congratulations Juliane Nguyen on your induction into AAPS as a fellow. So very well deserved.

Congrats DPMP Executive Assistant Garrett Bethmann for receiving a well-deserved Eshelman Employee Excellence Kudos award! We appreciate you!

Check out my editorial "The potential of nano- and microparticle-based influenza vaccines with enhanced shelf lives" doi.org/10.1080/1743... Thanks Nanomedicine for the opportunity to share my insight!

I noticed an error in my previous timeline, where liposome and layer-by-layer labels were switched. I corrected it here. Please let me know if anything else seems off. Link to editable version in Google Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...