April 26, 2018 – Zhiyuan and Peter’s article titled “Cell membrane coating for reducing nanoparticle-induced inflammatory responses to scaffold constructs” has been accepted for publication in Nano Research.
February 2, 2018 – Peter receives the College of Engineering Outstanding PhD Student Award, which is given to one student in the college this year. Congratulations on this prestigious award!
February 1, 2018 – Dr. Cheng receives a Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement (CURE) formula grant to develop a therapeutics delivery scaffold for generating tolerogenic dendritic cells.
December 21, 2017– Peter and Zhiyuan’s review article titled “Cell membrane bioconjugation and membrane-derived nanomaterials for immunotherapy” has been accepted for publication in Bioconjugate Chemistry.
July 29, 2017– Dr. Cheng delivered an invited talk in 2017 CASNN annual meeting in Suzhou, China.
June 26, 2017– Stephen passed his MS thesis defense. Congratulations!
June 12, 2017 – Dr. Cheng and collaborator receive a R21 grant from NIH to develop biomaterials for inducing immune tolerance. We thank NIH for supporting our research.
May 23, 2017 – Diana has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis! Congratulations! She is the first Ph.D. student graduated from our lab. We appreciate her contribution to the lab and wish her a very successful career in the future.
May 10, 2017 – Peter receives Koerner Family Award from the College of Engineering. Congratulations!
April 18~20, 2017 – Dr. Cheng co-organized “Materials in Immunology” symposium in 2017 MRS Spring Meeting. The symposium focuses on both fundamental and translational researches in biomaterials-based immunoengineering. Dr. Cheng and Zhiyuan gave talks in the symposium.