R01 Grant was approved for using mRNA LNPs to treat ARDS!
We look forward to working with Hamideh Parhiz's lab to help fight this terrible illness. Watch us pop a bottle of champagne and give...
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- Sep 8
Flannel Fridays!
Labor Day Weekend marks the end of Hawaiian Shirt Fridays and the beginning of Flannel Fridays! Please spread our love of flannels every...
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- Aug 12
Hawaiian Shirt Friday in the lab!
We decided to add some pizazz to our Fridays this summer and put on all of our favorite hawaiian shirts. We encourage everyone to make...
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- Aug 5
Congratulations to our team's Kate Rubey, MD, who got the Outstanding Poster Award at the GRC!
Congratulations to our team's Kate Rubey, MD, who got the Outstanding Poster Award at the Gordon Research Conference on Drug Carriers in...
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- Jul 31
Congrats to Serena Omo-Lamai for being elected as the chair for the 2024 Gordon Research Seminar!
Serena will be serving as the chair for the 2024 Gordon Research Seminar. We are all so proud of this grand accomplishment!
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- Jul 3
Nanoparticle-Induced Augmentation of Neutrophils’ Phagocytosis of Bacteria
Despite the power of antibiotics, bacterial infections remain a major killer, due to antibiotic resistance and hosts with dysregulated...
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- Jun 5
Rooftop BBQ with Muzykantov Lab
This Monday we got to together with the Muzykantov Lab to have a rooftop BBQ! We got to try many amazing dishes, including freshly caught...
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- Apr 27
First Annual Bring Your Kid to Work Day at Penn Pulmonary!
We hope our staff and the kids all enjoyed the first annual Penn Pulmonary / LBI Bring Your Kid to Work Day event! Special thanks go to...
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- Feb 24
On The Cover of Advanced Materials!
The cover of Advanced Materials is highly coveted. It is instantly recognisable and associated worldwide with the highest quality research!
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- Jan 31
Double Birthday Donuts and a Happy Chinese New Year!
This week we had two birthdays fall on the same day, namely, January 31st, also falling on Chinese New Year Eve!
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- Dec 15, 2021
Our New Paper in Advanced Materials Shows a Novel Way to Avoid Nanoparticle Complement Activation!
Complement opsonization is among the biggest challenges facing nanomedicine. Nearly instantly after injection into blood, nanoparticles...
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- Dec 13, 2021
Congratulations to Jia Nong for Receiving an AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship!
This week our Postdoc Jia Nong got the news that she will be receiving an AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship! Heart disease is a terminal...
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- Nov 18, 2021
New Study Published in Nature Nanotechnology!
This study shows that the supramolecular arrangement of proteins in nanoparticle structures predicts nanoparticle accumulation in...
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- Nov 12, 2021
Science Show for a CHOP Patient in the Brenner Bioengineering Lab!
This week the lab put on a small science show for our friend who's a CHOP patient. This included some electronics demonstrations with...
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- Jul 28, 2021
Lab Party at Cira Green
This week our nanowarriors took a trip over to Cira Green, an elevated urban park in West Philadelphia's Schuylkill Yards located between...
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- May 4, 2021
Reinforcements in the battle against critical illness
It's been a long while since we last posted. Somehow pandemics get in the way! Anyhow, we're excited that in the last few months, we...
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- Dec 1, 2020
RightAir seals Series A venture capital deal
RightAir is a spin-out from the Brenner Bioengineering Lab, and makes the AIR-AD Vest, which looks like a clothing vest, but relieves the...
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- Apr 24, 2020
Training grant party!
Kate Rubey, MD, Neonatology fellow in our lab, was awarded an F32 grant! Marco Zamora, PhD candidate in our lab, was awarded an F31...
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- Apr 18, 2020
Article on Nanoparticle Structure-Dependant Interactions with Neutrophils Available as a Preprint
Acute lung inflammation has severe morbidity, as seen in COVID-19 patients. Lung inflammation is accompanied or led by massive...
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- Nov 14, 2019
Talk at Johns Hopkins
Really enjoyed presenting a seminar on Nanomedicine for Acute Critical Illess. Thanks so much for Pulmonary Division Chief Nadia Hansel...
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- Oct 20, 2019
Bioengineering rocks!
Great time at #BMES2019. Gave a talk on #nanomedicine for acute critical illness (chaired by the awesome @cfromen & @BrownLab_NCSU ). ...
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- Jul 14, 2019
Talk at Life Sciences Future Medtech
Our PI, Jake, spoke about our spin-out company RightAir's (http://www.rightair.io/ ) AIR-AD Vest to help COPD patients breath easy. ...
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- Jul 5, 2019
Priyal, our star lab tech, has her last day in lab before going to podiatry school
Priyal has been with us for 2 years and has been a star. We are about to submit her awesome paper, with co-first author Jacob Myerson,...
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- Mar 5, 2019
Harvard Bioengineering talk on "Nanomedicine for Acute Critical Illness"
Our PI, Jake, had a great time speaking @HarvardEngineer. His host @SMitragotri & his awesome team discussed exciting collabs to further...
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