Gaya Murugappan receives cum laude honors
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!
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HHMI Science Meeting
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!
Patent issued
Our patent application for our work on synthetic biomarkers has been issued! US patent No: 8,673,267
Patent: DNA-encoded pMHC tetramers
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
Omar Abudayyeh named a Soros Fellow
Congrats to my former UROP and current Harvard MD/PhD candidate Omar Abudayyeh for being named a Soros Fellow!
Patent: DNA-encoded Antibody Libraries
A patent has been granted for my work at Caltech on DNA-encoded Antibody Libraries! US Patent No: 8,354,231
Synthetic biomarkers identify early cancer
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 may enable early cancer diagnosis
Phys.org: Nanoparticles amplify tumor signals, making them easier to detect in the urine
Cancer Discovery: Synthetic biomarkers identify early cancer
FierceHealthIT: Nanotechnology enables creation of biomarkers for early cancer detection
AZoNano: Novel nanoparticles for easier biomarker detection
NZZ am Sonntag (German), Nanomedicine, Newsroom America, ProteoMonitor, National Cancer Institute
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