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Feb 3

Serena Omo-Lamai awarded fellowships from the PhRMA Foundation and the American Heart Association!

The lab is wishing Serena major congratulations after she was awarded the PhRMA Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship in Drug Delivery and...

Jan 30

Check out a new article about our research in Advanced Science News!

This week an article was published about a study led by our scientists about how the use of nanocarriers improves nintendanib retention...

Jan 27

Mechanisms by Which Liposomes Improve Inhaled Drug Delivery for Alveolar Diseases Cover Page Feature

Congratulations to Laura Ferguson and Xiaonan Ma for being featured as the cover image of the journal! Diseases of the pulmonary...

Dec 9, 2022

Serena Omo-Lamai wins abstract award at the 4th annual IMES!

This Friday Serena made the lab proud and won the award for Global & Community Engagement at the 4th annual IMES with her work studying...

Nov 7, 2022

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...

Sep 9, 2022

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...

Aug 12, 2022

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...

Aug 5, 2022

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...

Aug 1, 2022

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!

Jul 4, 2022

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...

Jun 6, 2022

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...

Apr 28, 2022

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...

Feb 24, 2022

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!

Jan 31, 2022

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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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