Congratulations to Ian Miller and Shreyas Dahotre for being the first two graduate students to leave the lab as Ph.D.'s! Ian will be working as a Research Scientist for Intellia Therapeutics in Cambridge, MA, and Shreyas will be working as a Research Scientist for Obsidian Therapeutics in Cambridge, MA. LSI wishes you best of luck!

Congratulations to these students who delivered podium talks at the 2020 BMES Virtual Annual Meeting: Quoc Mac – “Activity Sensors for Monitoring Therapeutic Response and Illuminating Resistance Mechanisms during Immune Checkpoint Immunotherapy” Lena Gamboa – “Sensitizing solid tumors to CAR T cell-mediated cytotoxicity using synthetic antigens” Anirudh Sivakumar – “Logic-Gated Protease Sensors for Non-Invasive Monitoring […]

In the world of synthetic biology, the development of foundational components like logic gates and genetic clocks has enabled the design of circuits with increasing complexity, including the ability to solve math problems, build autonomous robots, and play interactive games. A team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology is now using what they’ve […]

Our work on engineering biological circuits was published in Nature Communications! Congratulations to Brandon and the team! Read the full manuscript here. Summary | Biological circuits engineered to interface with living systems will enable new applications for programmable immune therapies and diagnostics. In this study, we explored how treating proteases as 'biological bits' could be […]

Aaron Silva Trenkle joins LSI as a new graduate student. Aaron completed his bachelors at the University of Iowa in BME and minored in German. Aaron was part of two labs at UIowa and spent two summers performing research in Germany through the DAAD RISE program. Read more about Aaron here.

Kelsey Kubelick joins LSI as a new post-doc. Kelsey is originally from Pittsburgh, PA. She completed her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech in 2020 with Dr. Stanislav Emelianov in the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Lab. Her dissertation research focused on developing photoacoustic imaging methods to track cells and particles. Read more about […]

Congratulations to Shreyas Dahotre for becoming the second LSI Ph.D. graduate! Shreyas successfully defended his thesis, titled “Programmable Immune Cytometry and Diagnostics,” in front of a virtual crowd on July 14, 2020. We look forward to your future success!

Congratulations to Ian Miller for being the first Ph.D. graduate from LSI! Ian successfully defended his thesis, titled “Remote control of CAR T cell therapies by thermal targeting,” in front of a virtual crowd on June 23, 2020. We look forward to your future success!

Congratulations to McKenzie, Melanie, Haley, and the rest of their team for their winning app at EGHI/GT HACK COVID-19! The team developed CAPACIT, an app that communicates current population density at businesses to potential shoppers. Users can plan their day from live updates on current capacity of public spaces through the app. Watch their pitch […]

Congratulations to Anna for winning a fellowship from the NSF GRFP! The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. Read more here.

Congratulations to Kevin Tao for receiving a 2020 Barry Goldwater Scholarship! The Goldwater Scholarship is the preeminent undergraduate award for outstanding students pursuing careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. Goldwater Scholars have been awarded 92 Rhodes Scholarships, 137 Marshall Awards, 159 Churchill Scholarships, 104 Hertz Fellowships, and numerous other distinguished […]

Gabe Kwong Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure Kwong’s lab pioneers powerful new technologies to address frontier clinical challenges – including ultrasensitive diagnostics for early detection of disease, engineered T cells as curative therapies, and high-throughput tools to study rare immune cells. His research directly impacts a broad range of complex human diseases including cancer, […]

Our paper on developing synthetic biomarkers for non-invasive early detection of organ transplant rejection won the 2020 Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award at Georgia Tech. Congrats to Gabe and to Quoc for spearheading the research! Read the announcement from the BME Department here. 

Recognizing & Celebrating the Innovation Powering a Healthier World Progress towards a healthier world begins with individuals who are willing to break the limits of convention, and to challenge the status quo. These innovators embrace imagination and aren’t afraid to explore both chaos, clarity, and the space between in order to discover new paths to […]

Our review on the opportunities, challenges and the current state-of-the-art for remote control of immune cells to increase treatment precision and safety profile is published in Theranostics! Congrats to Lena and Ali! Read the manuscript here.

Ian traveled to Banff, Canada to present his work at a poster presentation at the “Emerging Cellular Therapies: Cancer and Beyond” Keystone Symposium. Meeting Summary: After many years of fundamental research, cell-based therapies are now recognized as effective medicines for treatment of a specific subset of cancers as well as a growing list of autoimmune, […]

Our work on heat-triggered remote control of CRISPR-dCas9 for tunable transcriptional modulation was published in ACS Chemical Biology! Congratulations to Lena and the rest of the team! Read the full manuscript here.Summary | CRISPR-based approaches have achieved wide success in modulating gene activity to control cell function and are potential tools for clinical therapies. However, the […]

Congratulations to Jun and Henry for winning a President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA) for Spring 2020! PURA fund student salaries to conduct undergraduate research with Georgia Tech faculty and offset travel expenses for undergraduates to present their research at professional conferences. Between two hundred and three hundred competitive awards are offered on campus each year. […]

Kevin has been selected as a Petit Undergraduate Scholar for 2018 with Ida serving as his Petit Mentor. Congratulations! From the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, “The Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars program is a competitive scholarship program that serves to develop the next generation of leading bioengineering and bioscience researchers by providing a comprehensive […]

Grad student Ian Miller presented his work on thermal control of CAR T cells at the Fred Hutch Immuno-Oncology Graduate Student Symposium hosted by Fred Hutch’s Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center (IIRC). Participants were able to meet faculty, learn about the breadth of research done in immuno-oncology, visit research laboratories and shared resource facilities, and tour […]

Hathaichanok “Noina” Phuengkham joins LSI as a new post-doc. Noina originally hails from Thailand and completed her Ph.D. studies at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea where she developed biomaterials to alter immunosuppressive tumor microenvironments with Dr. Yong Taik Lim. Read more about Noina here.

Dr. Kwong was invited to speak at the Transplant Immunosuppression 2019 Conference in Minneapolis, MN. The course focused on current options for immunosuppression (and what’s in the pipeline), with particular attention to individualization of immunosuppression based on clinical and/or laboratory parameters; prevention, diagnosis and treatment of antibody-mediated rejection; improving long-term transplant outcomes; and major issues […]

Ali was raised in San Diego, CA before moving to São Paulo, Brazil for three years. He attended UCSD where he graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Bioengineering. As an undergraduate, he developed a STEM immersion program for a local high school. In the lab, Ali investigated new drug delivery techniques to reduce […]

Our work with the Qiu group is now online in PLoS Computational Biology! The activity of enzymatic proteins, which are called proteases, drives numerous important processes in health and disease: including cancer, immunity, and infectious disease. Many labs have developed useful diagnostics by designing sensors that measure the activity of these proteases. However, if we […]

Multiple students were awarded podium talks at the 2019 BMES Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. They are: Brandon Holt – “Synthetic biological circuits for treating prodrug-resistant bacteria” Brandon Holt – “Proteases as biological bits for programmable medicine” Ian Miller – “Remote Control of CAR T Cells Using Thermal Cues” Shreyas Dahotre – “Ultrasensitive Detection of […]

Dr. Kwong was invited to participate in the Synthetic Biomarkers for Detection of Cancers at Incipient and Early Stages (SYNDICATE) Think Tank Meeting hosted by the Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and co-chaired by Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr. Sam Gambhir, Stanford University. The think tank […]

Adrian was born in Dover, Delaware but spent half of his life in Dahlonega, GA. He graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia, where he received a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. During his undergraduate years, he worked in Dr. Amy Medlock’s laboratory, investigating the regulatory roles of Peroxiredoxin 5 and Progesterone Receptor […]

LSI awarded $500,000 from the NSF Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) for "Ultra-fast transient cell adhesion and its application for high-throughput microfluidic cell sorting". Our co-PI's are Dr. Alexander Alexeev (associate professor, The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering) and Todd Sulchek (professor, The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical […]

The labs of Gabe Kwong (assistant professor, Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering) and M.G. Finn (professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry) were awarded a grant for “Activity biosensors that implement Boolean logic as precision diagnostics for immunotherapy.” The researchers reason that disease detection and evaluation of treatment responses in vivo depend on the ability to extract clinically […]

The Laboratory for Synthetic Immunity is part of a $21.9 million award from DARPA to develop gene therapies to enable protection against a wide range of influenza strains and improve immune responses and efficacy of current influenza vaccines. The work, led by Phil Santangelo at Georgia Tech, is being performed by researchers at GT, Duke, […]

Congratulations to Anna for winning an Astronaut Scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF). In 2019, ASF awarded 52 scholarships to students from 38 different universities across the nation. Astronaut Scholarships are awarded to students in their junior and senior year of college studying science, technology, engineering, or mathematics with the intent to pursue research […]

Lena traveled to Ascona, Switzerland to present her talk “Heat-triggered CRISPR-dCas9 for the remote control of therapeutic T cells” at Synthims 2019. The conference covered insights in therapeutic protein engineering, rational vaccine design and delivery; advances in single-cell sequencing and microfluidics as related to the adaptive immune system; adoptive immune cell transfer therapies; and cancer […]

Congratulations to Lee-Kai Sun for receiving a 2019 Barry Goldwater Scholarship! The Goldwater Scholarship is the preeminent undergraduate award for outstanding students pursuing careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. Goldwater Scholars have been awarded 92 Rhodes Scholarships, 137 Marshall Awards, 159 Churchill Scholarships, 104 Hertz Fellowships, and numerous other distinguished awards […]

LSI has received a $1.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health to develop activity sensors to monitor responses to cancer immunotherapy! This work will expand our sensor platform, which has already been used to detect thrombosis, liver fibrosis, cancer, and organ transplant rejection. Read more about this work […]

Congratulations to Mimi for winning a PURA Award! President's Undergraduate Research Awards fund student salaries to conduct undergraduate research with Georgia Tech faculty and offset travel expenses for undergraduates to present their research at professional conferences.

Our recently published paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering was highlighted in Nature Reviews Nephrology!

Our work on activity sensors for early and noninvasive detection of acute transplant rejection was just published in Nature Biomedical Engineering! Congrats to Quoc and the team! Summary | The current diagnostic “gold” standard to monitor transplant patients for signs of organ rejection is the tissue biopsy. However, this procedure is invasive and lacks the ability to […]

FierceMedTech has named Glympse Bio, co-founded by LSI director Dr. Gabe Kwong, as one of its Fierce 15 for 2018. Each year FierceMedTech spotlights 15 of the most innovative and promising startups in the medtech industry. Read more about what makes Glympse fierce here and here.

Brandon gave a podium talk titled "Biological Bits for Computing Classical and Quantum-Inspired Algorithms" at the Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems Gordon Research Seminar in Ventura, CA. This conference was focused on formulating new ways to inscribe the vital functions found in biological systems into synthetic materials and complex structures. Congrats Brandon and great to […]

The global prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) has risen precipitously over the past two decades in parallel with the worldwide obesity epidemic, and these diseases are associated with progressive fibrosis and an increased risk of liver cancer. The field lacks an integrated understanding of risk prediction, pathogenesis and validated […]

Our work on synthesizing DNA-barcoded pMHC tetramers to detect single antigen-specific T cells by ddPCR was published in Analytical Chemistry! Congrats to Shreyas and the team!Read the full manuscript here.

LSI is part of a team of researchers from Georgia Tech, Emory, Duke, Rockefeller, and UGA that has been awarded funding from DARPA for ‘Thwarting Influenza with RNA-powered Modulators (ThIRM)’. The DARPA PReemptive Expression of Protective Alleles and Response Elements (PREPARE) program is aimed at delivering a capability to generate programmable gene modulator MCMs (PGM-MCMs) […]

The 16th International Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Symposium highlights new groundbreaking discoveries and developments in nanomedicine and drug delivery.  Revolutionary advances in this area require collaboration amongst researchers working in a diverse array of fields including nanotechnology, materials science, imaging, cell biology, tissue engineering, gene editing, drug and gene delivery as well as clinical research. […]

Anirudh grew up in Dallas, TX. His love for chemistry and tenure as a mathlete spurred him to graduate from the University of Texas at Austin summa cum laude with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a B.S. in Mathematics. As a Cockrell Engineering Honors Scholar, Anirudh worked in Dr. Lydia Contreras’ lab, investigating the effects of […]

Dr. Kwong will be giving a seminar at Northwestern University in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics on Sept. 13. His talk is titled “Harnessing Protease Activity as ‘Biological Bits’ for Programmable Medicine”.

Fang-Yi “Ida” Su joins LSI as a new post-doc. Ida originally hails from Taiwan and came to the United States to complete her Ph.D. studies at University of Washington, where she developed polymeric antibiotic prodrugs for pulmonary bacterial infections with Prof. Patrick Stayton. Read more about Ida here.

Brandon walks through the synthesis of iron oxide nanosensors in our latest publication in JOVE. Watch the video here.

Our work on remote control T cells for cancer immunotherapy was recently published in ACS Synthetic Biology! Engineered T cell therapies are a new class of treatments that have the potential to cure patients of cancer. However, tumors have the uncanny ability to turn off T cells to evade being targeted. In our study, we […]

Dr. Kwong traveled to the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France to talk about work from our lab and Glympse Bio at the 4th Paris NASH Meeting. His talk was titled “Protease activity signatures in NASH”. The Paris NASH Meeting is an international academic meeting is aimed to do a deep-dive into many aspects of NASH and […]

Congratulations to Kevin and Lee-Kai for winning awards from the Alfred H. Gibeling Family Research Fund through the Biomedical Engineering department to conduct undergraduate research!

Dr. Gabe Kwong at GT/Emory and Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia at MIT have been granted a patent on using isotope-encoded reporters for multiplexed detection of target analytes in biological samples. Congrats! Read more about the patent here.

Work in our lab on using synthetic biomarkers to noninvasively detect the onset of acute transplant rejection, spearheaded by graduate student Quoc Mac, was chosen as a plenary talk at the 2018 American Transplant Congress in Seattle, WA. We are excited to share our technology with scientists and clinicians around the country and world! ATC […]

Congratulations to Kevin and Lee-Kai for winning a President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA) for Fall 2018! PURA fund student salaries to conduct undergraduate research with Georgia Tech faculty and offset travel expenses for undergraduates to present their research at professional conferences. Between two hundred and three hundred competitive awards are offered on campus each year. […]

Congratulations to Brandon for winning a NSF Graduate Fellowship! The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.

Our work on engineering thermal gene switches for spatial and remote control of transcriptional activity in mammalian cells using pulses of heat was published in ACS Synthetic Biology! Congrats to Ian and the team! Read the entire manuscript here. Summary | Genetically engineered T cells have the potential to cure patients of cancer. Yet after they are […]

Congratulations to Anna for winning a President's Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) for Summer 2018! PURA fund student salaries to conduct undergraduate research with Georgia Tech faculty and offset travel expenses for undergraduates to present their research at professional conferences. Between two hundred and three hundred competitive awards are offered on campus each year. Read more about […]

Our work on developing DNA gates for multiplexed cell sorting was published in PNAS! Congratulations to Shreyas and the rest of the team!Read the full manuscript here.

Gabe Kwong Honored by Georgia Tech’s Center for Teaching and Learning Gabe Kwong, assistant professor, will receive the Center for Teaching and Learning/BP America Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. Kwong investigates cancer nanotechnology, engineering immunity, biomedical nanosystems, and high-throughput biotechnologies. Here is some of the feedback received from students regarding Kwong’s teaching: “One of the best […]

LSI has been awarded a grant from The Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation for “Enhancing T Cell Therapies for Cancer using Pulses of Heat”. The Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation supports science based research in the areas of neuroscience/brain science, regenerative medicine, cell biology, cancer, and nanotechnology/nanoscience, and strives for the advancement of a healthy […]

Justin has been selected as a Petit Undergraduate Scholar for 2018 with Quoc serving as his Petit Mentor. Congratulations! From the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, “The Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars program is a competitive scholarship program that serves to develop the next generation of leading bioengineering and bioscience researchers by providing a comprehensive […]

This fellowship is sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and seeks to increase the number of outstanding engineering Ph.D. graduates from under-represented populations. She was nominated by the director and faculty of Georgia Tech's University Center for Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM). Congrats!

James grew up in Rochester, NY and graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Biotechnology from SUNY Upstate Medical University in 2011. James spent the next two years as a research technician at the University of Rochester Medical Center in the laboratory of Dr. James Palis, where he studied hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell […]

NSF Fellowship, Brown Connections Lead Marielena Gamboa Castro ’15 to Cancer Research

Gabe Kwong, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, is one of only 82 people selected to participate at the 2017 US Frontiers of Engineering symposium. The symposium, organized by the National Academy of Engineering, gathers what the academy calls “exceptional” engineers from 30 to 45 […]

Congratulations to undergraduates Justin Kahla and Jason Weis for winning President's Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA)! PURA fund student salaries to conduct undergraduate research with Georgia Tech faculty and offset travel expenses for undergraduates to present their research at professional conferences. Between two hundred and three hundred competitive awards are offered on campus each year. Read […]

Congratulations to Lena for winning the NSF GRFP! The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. Read more here.

Congratulations to Quoc for being named an NSF Fellow! The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. Read more here.

Hassan has been selected as a Petit Undergraduate Scholar for 2017 with Quoc serving as his Petit Mentor. Congratulations! From the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, “The Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars program is a competitive scholarship program that serves to develop the next generation of leading bioengineering and bioscience researchers by providing a comprehensive […]

NIH announces funding for 88 awards on high-impact biomedical research Gabe Kwong, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, was named a recipient of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) New Innovator Award on Oct. 4. The High-Risk, High-Reward Research (HRHR) program, supported by the National Institutes […]

Several members of LSI were selected to oral presentations at the BMES 2016 Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN. They are as follows: Dr. Gabe Kwong – “A Mathematical Framework for Ultra-sensitive Detection of Cancer Using Activity-Based Biomarkers” Shreyas Dahotre – “Highly Multiplexed Analysis of Cancer-specific T cells using DNA-barcoded peptide-MHC Tetramers” Ian Miller – “Engineering […]

Yun Min “Danny” Chang joins LSI as a graduate student co-advised with Dr. Rafi Ahmed at Emory.  Danny was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to the US at the age of 9. He grew up in Tarpon Springs, FL and graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Florida. As […]

The Laboratory of Synthetic Immunity welcomes Oliva as a lab tech. Olivia is from Madison, Alabama, and went to school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (go Blazers!). She graduated in April 2016 summa cum laude with a B.S. in molecular biology and a minor in chemistry. As an undergraduate, Olivia worked in Dr. […]

Patients who are discharged after an operation are at risk for complications such as infections and blood clots. A simple molecular test designed for patients to monitor their own health at home may significantly improve how post-operative complications are managed. In collaboration with the Bhatia lab at MIT, we developed a sustained-released formulation of nanoparticles […]

Congratulations to Ian Miller and Quoc Mac for being named Honorable Mention by the NSF Graduate Research Program!

Congratulations to Ian for being selected a Petit Mentor, and Jason a Petit Undergraduate Scholar for 2016!From the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, "The Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars program is a competitive scholarship program that serves to develop the next generation of leading bioengineering and bioscience researchers by providing a comprehensive research experience for […]

LSI is among five new teams of Georgia Tech and Emory researchers that have been selected for foundational support through the Immunoengineering Seed Grant program, which is led by the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA). In collaboration with Dr. John Altman at Emory, LSI will develop massively parallel technologies to measure and monitor the immune response. Read more […]

Our work examining the use of activity-based biomarkers for early cancer detection has been published in PNAS.Summary | The discovery of cancer at an early stage improves treatment outcomes, yet cancer detection thresholds based on blood biomarkers shed by small tumors lack predictivity. We develop a mathematical framework to explore the use of activity-based biomarkers for […]

Quoc grew up halfway around the world in Saigon, Vietnam. Due to his love for computer games, he studied Computer Science at the University of Science for two years before his family immigrated to the US and settled in North Carolina. Quoc then transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he […]

From Science Daily, "Engineers have devised a way to detect cancer that has spread to the liver, by enlisting help from probiotics -- beneficial bacteria similar to those found in yogurt. Using a harmless strain of E. coli that colonizes the liver, the researchers programmed the bacteria to produce a luminescent signal that can be […]

Congratulations to Shreyas for being selected as the first grad student from LSI for the NSF fellowship!

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 […]