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Congrats to Mike Mitchell PhD student Kelsey Swingle Kelsey Swingle for receiving the Muriel Joan Drew Hege MD Fund award from the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies Penn for Women in Cellular Immunotherapy Research! Lookout for exciting new mRNA LNP work by Kels this summer!

Nothing beats being a PI on graduation week - huge congrats to Mike Mitchell rockstars Kelsey Swingle and roro on their Outstanding TA and Solomon R. Pollack research awards!

Check out our latest in ACS Nano ACS Nano led by Mike Mitchell PhD student Alex Hamilton Alex Hamilton on high-throughput in vivo screening to identify LNPs tailored for local and systemic delivery for mRNA vaccines + cancer immunotherapy applications! Link: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Excited to share our recent work! Thank you Larry Chamley and Josh Fisher for the opportunity to contribute to this special issue on methodologies in placental research!

Women’s health research has long been underfunded! Viewing women’s health as a comprehensive and essential part of healthcare will drive better policies, more research and greater investment to benefit society as a whole go.nature.com/3XZHx9L

A potential new mRNA-based therapy for pre-eclampsia is demonstrated in a mouse study published in nature. The method involves targeted delivery of mRNA to the placenta to restore normal maternal blood pressure and improve foetal health. go.nature.com/41vacXz

Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 Targeted mRNA therapy tackles deadly pregnancy condition in mice nature.com/articles/d4158…

Huge congrats to Mike Mitchell PhD student Kelsey Swingle for being highlighted on the cover of this month's issue of nature! Check out Kelsey's recent study in nature on a placenta mRNA LNP platform to treat deadly pregnancy disorders (free access): rdcu.be/d3dm2

We are one week out from the next lecture in the Rice Bioengineering Colloquia Series! Join us Thursday, January 30 at 12:10pm to hear from University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. Candidate Kelsey Swingle on engineering placenta-tropic mRNA lipid nanoparticles to treat pregnancy

If you're in the Philly area come check out Kelsey Swingle's seminar this Wednesday at noon at the Penn Center for Women's Health and Reproductive Medicine on her study in nature on a placenta mRNA LNP platform to treat pre-eclampsia (free access): rdcu.be/d3dm2

Happy #internationalwomensday #IWD2025! Bioengineering can make a difference in women's health but requires inclusive engineering approaches! Some wonderful examples here: bit.ly/3QY77J3 bit.ly/41yTYep bit.ly/3FbObnL bit.ly/41wh1Xm

Check out our latest publication in @nanoletters led by Mike Mitchell PhD student and lab softball Coach Hannah Safford where we explore tuning LNP elasticity using atomic force microscopy to enhance mRNA LNP delivery to the placenta! Link to article: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Exciting week filled with the Penn Engineering graduate awards and hooding ceremonies! So thankful for everyone in Mike Mitchell and my family for coming. Next up: defense in 6 weeks!