We're excited to announce that #UNCPharmacy graduate students Emily Joe and Ashley Merriweather have each received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation! Learn more: hubs.ly/Q03sqqg50

Latest from Alexander Kabanov lab “Approach to Chelating Radioactivity using Carbon Dots for Positron Emission Tomography Imaging”. Work from Colin Basham, Marina Solkolsky-Papkov, & first author Son Long Ho. A T32 supported paper. ACS Publications doi.org/10.1021/acsami… UNC Pharmacy

Congrats to Colin Basham, Jacob Ramsey, & the whole team from Alexander Kabanov lab on their novel LNP paper posted to bioRxiv. Colin (first author) and Jacob (last author) led key efforts—an impressive T32 milestone and team achievement! 🔗doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… UNC Pharmacy

New pub from Hingtgen Lab and it's Project Brainslice focus "Exosomes: Traversing the blood-brain barrier and their therapeutic potential in brain cancer" 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.bbca… UNC Pharmacy

Congratulations to PhD candidate & Kristy Ainslie member Kierstin Clark on receiving the James L. Krum Memorial Scholarship. It will support her research on developing inverse vaccines for autoimmune disease treatment. A well-deserved honor for groundbreaking work. UNC Pharmacy

Excited to share new study in collab w/ Alexander Kabanov lab "Approach to Chelating Radioactivity using Carbon Dots for Positron Emission Tomography Imaging " in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. ACS Publications 🔗 doi.org/10.1021/acsami… UNC Pharmacy

Congratulations to the team on the $3M R01 grant — a major step toward innovative therapies for IBD.

New publication out in Frontiers - Medical Technology in collaboration with Juliane Nguyen “Enhancing nucleic acid delivery by the integration of artificial intelligence into lipid nanoparticle formulation” 🔗doi.org/10.3389/fmedt.… UNC Pharmacy

Congratulations to Nicole Rose Lukesh on successfully defending her PhD thesis! Her dedication and hard work in Kristy Ainslie truly paid off. We’re incredibly proud of everything she’s accomplished. Here’s to an exciting new journeys ahead, Dr. Lukesh! UNC Pharmacy

Congratulations to Owen S. Fenton for 2 recent awards. Received an UNC RNA Discovery Center Collaborative Award, in collaboration with Dr. Rihe Liu. Also received a Pump-Priming Award, with international collaboration with Dr. Emma McErlean and Queen's University Belfast 🎓 Great work! UNC Pharmacy

Congratulations to CNDD Director Alexander Kabanov for receiving "Worthy of Recognition" (DPMP 863) and Grad Student Kelly VanTreeck for receiving "Worthy of Distinction" (PHRS 703) as instructors in SP25, as voted upon by their students. Wonderful work! UNC Pharmacy

DPMP is excited to participate in Tools for Teachers donation drive. A meaningful way to support local educators with small donations of supplies as they prepare for the new school year. Donations accepted 7.17-8.7. Our board is up on Marsico 4th Floor and ready! UNC Pharmacy

This month's Formulary Book Club recommendation comes from Alita Miller, Pharmacoengineering & Mol Pharmaceutics (DPMP UNC) PhD candidate and Royster Fellow! She recommends "Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know" by Adam Grant. Learn more about the book below: hubs.li/Q03wFwWK0

Just published in Advanced Portfolio News from Samuel Lai lab, “Engineering Decavalent, Sperm-Binding Laminin-IgG Hybrid Antibodies for Potent Non-Hormonal Contraception” 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/advs.2… UNC Pharmacy

Publication out in Digestive Diseases and Sciences featuring work from the Juliane Nguyen “Engineered Probiotic Saccharomyces boulardii Reduces Colitis-Associated Colorectal Cancer Burden in Mice” 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s10620… UNC Pharmacy

Shoutout to Kristy Ainslie amazing Research Technician Allie Lopez for earning the Eshelman Employee Excellence Kudos Award in Research. Allie’s dedication to advancing the research mission at UNC Pharmacy and in the Ainslie Lab is truly inspiring Way to go, Allie!

Congrats to Kristy Ainslie grad student Kiersten Clark on receiving the on receiving the prestigious James L Krum Memorial Scholarship! The scholarship is in honor of Jim and Marge Krum & for students from Hilton Head with leadership experience, and community service. UNC Pharmacy

Proud to share a collaboration with Hingtgen Lab in AACR "Repurposing the DNA Labeling Agent EdU for Therapy against Heterogeneous Patient Glioblastoma." 🔗 doi.org/10.1158/1535-7… UNC Pharmacy

Excited to share that Dr. Yevgeny Brudno’s lab secured an U.S. National Science Foundation award! This project will continue the lab's research on harnessing biomaterials to manufacture and deliver cellular immunotherapies. Congratulations Dr. Brudno and team! UNC Pharmacy

Just published in STAR Protocols from the Owen S. Fenton “CloneFast: A simple plasmid design and construction guide for labs venturing into synthetic biology” 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro… UNC Pharmacy