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 […]