Congratulations to these students who presented their work at the 2023 BMES Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA: Ida Su – “Engineering virus-specific T cells in vivo for CAR T cell therapy” Ali Zamat – “Remote activation of CAR T cells by MR-guided focused ultrasound for treatment of brain tumors” Aaron Silva – “DNA-gated Cytometry for […]

ARPA-H (the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health) is providing up to $49.5M of funding for project CODA. ARPA-H was founded to advance the Biden Cancer Moonshot and “aims to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone by supporting the development of high-impact solutions to society’s most challenging health problems.” Project CODA seeks to map the Cancer and Organ […]

This fall, LSI welcomes four new lab members! Swapnil Bawage, PhD, joins LSI as the new Head of Research Operations. Riya Sen and Matthew Wang are beginning their PhD journeys after completing undergraduate studies at Boston University and Duke University, respectively. Noah Kramer joins as a research technician after graduating from Georgia Tech last spring. Read […]

Congratulations to Elif for winning the Genentech Outstanding Student Award! This award recognizes one winner from each school who excelled in the field of biotechnology and high scholastic achievement with a $2,500 award and three-month summer internship.

The Focused Ultrasound Foundation awarded a 1.5-year grant to remotely control thermal sensitive CAR T cells in the brain by MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS). This collaborative project between LSI and Dr. Costas Arvanitis’s Ultrasound Biophysics and Bioengineering Laboratory is focused on spatially controlling CAR T cells under MRgFUS to mitigate antigen escape and potentiate anti-tumor […]