We have been awarded a pilot grant from the American Cancer Society, through the IRG program at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. This grant will support our foray into selection strategies that can target precise cancer mutations.
International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering
Ethan returns from co-chairing the session "Cellular and Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials" with friend-of-the-lab Samira Azarin (University of Minnesota). It was a great start to 2017!
Michaela wins a poster award at the VUSRP Undergraduate Research Fair!
For her poster on high efficiency gene knockouts in iPSCs. Way to go Michaela!
Funding announcements
The lab is part of a funded joint effort headed by Dr. John Wikswo and Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education (VIIBRE) to model tuberous sclerosis complex with patient-derived iPSCs. We have also been awarded an internal grant from the Engineering Immunity TIPs program to develop biologicals that direct interleukin signaling. We are excited to embark in these new directions!
Ethan is named a NARSAD Young Investigator!
This grant will fund efforts to build neurovascular tissue structures with Leon Bellan's group for modeling behavioral disease phenotypes. We are grateful for this support from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation!