Recent News
Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Curvino!
September 2, 2023
Last week, Elizabeth defended her PhD thesis titled “Engaging Natural Antibody Responses with Nanomaterials for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease".
Joel was promoted to Associate Dean for Doctoral Programs
July 20, 2023
We are thrilled to announce that Joel has recently been promoted to Associate Dean for Doctoral Programs. He has joined the Pratt School of Engineering's Associate Dean Leadership Team for 2024.
Collier lab is attending the 2023 Gordon Research Conference
July 20, 2023
Joel, Emily, Shamitha and Helena are attending the 2023 Gordon Research Conference. Our students presented posters about their PhD projects and Helena was also selected for a talk. Kudos for the team!
Helena is now a PhD candidate!
June 29, 2023
Helena has succesfully defended her PhD candidacy exam focused on nanomaterial design for mucosal delivery of active immunotherapies
Poster presentation at the 2023 CBTE Symposium
April 6, 2023
Today our team presented their research work during the poster session at the 2023 Symposium hosted by the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering (CBTE) at Duke University. From left to right: Emily Roe, Helena Freire-Haddad, Pablo Cordero-Alvarado, Kat Lazar and Shamitha Shetty.
Congratulations to Dr Rachel Katz!
December 13, 2022
This week Rachel Katz successfully defended her PhD dissertation "Tunable Poly(ethylene glycol)-based Hydrogels for Reductionist Models of the Tumor Microenvironment". Congratulation Dr Katz!
Elizabeth presentation at the Vanderbilt Biomaterials Day
October 31, 2022
Elizabeth provided a great talk during the 2022 Vanderbilt Biomaterials Day hosted by Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. Stay tuned to our website to know more about her innovative work on peptide nanofibers!
Collier Lab at 2022 BMES Annual Meeting
October 25, 2022
Members of our team assisted to the 2021 Annual Meeting of BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) which took place in San Antonio, Texas.
Congratulations to Shamitha for passing her PhD preliminary exam!
October 25, 2022
Shamitha has succesfully defended her PhD candidancy exam focused on active immunotherapies against chronic inflammmation using a self-adjuvanted nanofiber-based vaccine platform.
Rachel Katz completed an Internship at Seagen
September 6, 2022
During the summer 2022, Rachel Katz worked at Seagen in the Therapeutic Discovery Research division to design new strategies for delivery of antibody drug conjugates. We are glad to see your professional growth!
We attended the 2022 Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Symposium
September 3, 2022
Pablo, Emily, Elizabeth, Shamitha, Yaoying, Deleah and Joel attended the 2022 Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Symposium this week.
Congratulations Helena Freire Haddad!
September 2, 2022
Helena was recently awarded the The James H. McElhaney Second-year PhD Fellowship after the careful consideration by a committe of BME faculty. Helena, we are proud of your achievement!
Welcome Kat Lazar!
August 26, 2022
The Collier Lab is very excited to welcome Kat Lazar to our research group. Kat, who graduated from Tuffs University with a bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering will work in Collaboration with the Chilkoti Lab during her PhD at Duke.
Congratulations to Emily Roe for passing her PhD preliminary exam! Well done, Emily!
August 26, 2022
Emily has succesfully approved her PhD premilinary exam focused on the sublingual delivery of peptide nanofibers for sexually transmitted infections.
Check out our new paper on multiepitope supramolecular peptide nanofibers.
July 22, 2022
We are pleased to announce that our newest paper "Multiepitope supramolecular peptide nanofibers eliciting coordinated humoral and cellular antitumor immune responses" is now published online. Congrats to Dr. Yaoying Wu for leading this effort!
GRC presentations and poster award
July 20, 2022
Yaoying and Elizabeth recently attended the inaugural Immunoengineering GRC in Ventura, CA. They both presented posters, and Elizabeth gave a Poster Preview talk. Elizabeth also won a Poster Award. Congratulations!
Dr. Chelsea Fries
November 29, 2021
Congratulations to Chelsea Fries, who defended her PhD thesis in September! Chelsea is now off to postdoc with Neil King at the University of Washington. Congrats Chelsea!
Dr. Nikki Votaw
November 29, 2021
Congratulations to Nikki Votaw, who defended her PhD thesis in September! Nikki is off to a Principal Scientist position in Viral Vector R&D at Isolere Bio. Congratulations Nikki!
Dr. Lucas Shores
October 1, 2021
Congratulations to Lucas Shores, who defended his PhD thesis in September! Lucas is off to postdoc with Melody Swartz and Jeff Hubbell at UChicago. Congratulations Lucas!
Dr. Kelly Hainline
May 1, 2021
Kelly successfully defended her PhD thesis and is off to Los Angeles to work as a Scientist at Amgen. Congratulations, Kelly!
Dr. Sean Kelly
January 15, 2021
Sean successfully defended his PhD thesis and is off to Baltimore for a postdoc with Jennifer Elisseeff's Group. Congratulations Sean!
Joel is elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows
March 9, 2017
Joel is elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Philip Jung Joins Faculty at Louisiana State University
November 19, 2016
Fall, 2016 Philip Jung, Collier lab alum, joins Louisiana State University as an Associate Professor in Biological and Agricultural Engineering
NIH R21 Grant For Exploring 3D Culture
November 19, 2016
Fall, 2016 NIH grants an R21 to a collaborative effort between the Collier lab and the Vander Griend lab at UChicago, on exploring engineered matrices for the 3D culture of prostate cancer cell organoids
The Collier Lab Welcomes New PhD Students
November 19, 2016
Fall, 2016 Kelly Hainline, Lucas Shores, Nikki Votaw, and Chelsea Fries join the Collier Group as new PhD students