From the Koch Institute, “On September 16, 2014, the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT hosted Bridging the Gap in Ovarian Cancer, a special symposium for ovarian cancer patients, survivors, family members, advocates, researchers, and other interested members of the public. This free public event was organized by the Koch Institute to share […]

Shreyas completed his B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering at Duke, and Ian majored in Chemistry at Furman University. Learn more about them here. Welcome!

Dr. Kwong officially launches the Laboratory for Synthetic Immunity (LSI) in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory School of Medicine. LSI focuses on developing transformative biomedical technologies for engineering human immunity. Read more about LSI’s research here.

The MIT Deshpande Center IdeaStream symposium gathers together the leading minds in innovation and entrepreneurship for an invitation-only event each spring. Top-name venture capitalists, successful entrepreneurs, and MIT researchers consider this a must-attend event. Watch Dr. Kwong’s seminar on synthetic biomarkers below:

MIT News: A paper diagnostic for cancer FOX News: Simple paper urine test may detect cancer, blood clots Science News: Urine test detects not pregnancy but cancer Wired: Get an injection, pee on a stick, get a cancer diagnosis Gizmodo: New paper-based urine tests could detect cancer and heart disease Medical News Today: Cheap urine […]

Summary: Noncommunicable diseases, including cardiovascular disease and cancer, are growing worldwide but are challenging to diagnose because biomarkers that can accurately detect in patients are scarce. We designed nanoparticles to reveal the presence of disease by producing a biomarker in urine that can be detected using paper strips similar to a home pregnancy test. This […]

Dr. Kwong was selected for the 2013 Career Award at the Scientific Interface (CASI) from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Thank you BWF and the selection committee!

The Economist: Particle Physiology   The Huffington Post: Test to detect hidden blood clots on the horizon   ACS Press Room: Toward a urine test for detecting blood clots MIT News: Finding blood clots before they wreak havoc AzoNano: Blood clots chop peptides added onto nanomaterials Medical News Today: Nanotechnology urine test could detect deadly blood clots Health Central: Urine test could […]

We are 1 of 12 teams awarded an innovation grant by the MIT Deshpande Center, supporting the commercialization of our synthetic biomarker technology! Twelve Research Teams Receive $949, 764 to Develop New Technological Innovations

Summary: Thrombin is a serine protease that plays a critical role in the formation of obstructive blood clots, or thrombosis, that is a life-threatening condition associated with numerous diseases such as atherosclerosis and stroke. To detect thrombosis in living animals, we design nanoparticles to sense the activity of thrombin by producing a signal in urine for […]

Congratulations to my former trainee and newly minted Harvard MD Gaya Murugappan for receiving cum laude honors for her MD thesis! Best of luck at Stanford!

I will be presenting a poster at the HHMI Science Meeting at Janelia Farm on my work on synthetic biomarkers. Should be a week of terrific talks!

Our patent application for our work on synthetic biomarkers has been issued! US patent No: 8,673,267

My PhD colleagues and I have just been awarded a patent for our invention of DNA-encoded pMHC tetramers! U.S. Patent No: 8,394,590

Congrats to my former UROP and current Harvard MD/PhD candidate Omar Abudayyeh for being named a Soros Fellow!

A patent has been granted for my work at Caltech on DNA-encoded Antibody Libraries! US Patent No: 8,354,231

Dr. Kwong’s paper describing how nanoparticles can be used as ‘synthetic biomarkers’ to noninvasively monitor liver fibrosis and detect early stage cancer has been published in Nature Biotechnology. Cheers to all my colleagues and collaborators – we formed a great team! Mass-encoded synthetic biomarkers for multiplexed urinary monitoring of disease, Nat. Biotechnol. Media Coverage: MIT news: New technology […]