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Lab News Update – Fall 2025

Lab News Update – Fall 2025 It’s been an exciting and productive stretch for our group, with many milestones, publications, and new beginnings to celebrate! Congratulations to Our Recent Graduates: We’re proud to celebrate Ben Cossette, Shamitha Shetty, and Emily Roe, who successfully…

Our new paper is out in Nature Biomedical Engineering!

Our new paper "Engaging natural antibody responses for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease via phosphorylcholine-presenting nanofibres" was just published on Nature Biomedical Engineering. Congrats Dr. Elizabeth Curvino and team for such an...

Our group attended the 2023 BMES annual meeting

Pablo, Deleah, Mia, Christopher and Joel recently attended the 2023 Biomedical Engineering Society meeting held in Seattle. Not only did our group members present a poster about their research but also had the opportunity to network with alumni from our...

Deleah Pettie is now a PhD candidate!

Deleah recently completed her preliminary exam on active immunotherapies for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. Congratulations Deleah!

Pablo Cordero is now a PhD candidate!

Pablo has succesfully defended her PhD candidacy exam focused on a new active immunotherapy to ameliorate chronic wound healing. Congratulations Pablo!

Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Curvino!

Last week, Elizabeth defended her PhD thesis titled “Engaging Natural Antibody Responses with Nanomaterials for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease". We are extremely proud for all her achievements, including publications in high impact journals...

Collier lab is attending the 2023 Gordon Research Conference

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!

Joel was promoted to Associate Dean for Doctoral Programs

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. We greatly appreciate Joel's advocacy for students and his...

Helena is now a PhD candidate!

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

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-...

Congratulations to Dr Rachel Katz!

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

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! Check out the official Biomaterials Day...

Collier Lab at 2022 BMES Annual Meeting

Members of our team assisted to the 2021 Annual Meeting of BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) which took place in San Antonio, Texas. This experience allowed our team members to not only increase their knowledge about the field of biomaterials but...

Congratulations to Shamitha for passing her PhD preliminary exam!

Shamitha has succesfully defended her PhD candidancy exam focused on active immunotherapies against chronic inflammmation using a self-adjuvanted nanofiber-based vaccine platform. Shamitha, we are proud of all of your achievements and we are excited for...

Rachel Katz completed an Internship at Seagen

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!