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!
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.
Emily has succesfully approved her PhD premilinary exam focused on the sublingual delivery of peptide nanofibers for sexually transmitted infections.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
April 30, 2021
Kelly successfully defended her PhD thesis and is off to Los Angeles to work as a Scientist at Amgen. Congratulations, Kelly!
January 14, 2021
Sean successfully defended his PhD thesis and is off to Baltimore for a postdoc with Jennifer Elisseeff's Group. Congratulations Sean!
March 9, 2017
Joel is elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Read more about it here https://bme.duke.edu/about/news/collier-and-gersbach-elected-aimbe-colle...
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
Fall, 2016 Kelly Hainline, Lucas Shores, Nikki Votaw, and Chelsea Fries join the Collier Group as new PhD students
October, 2016 Yi Wen and Joel Collier present at the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Fall, 2016 Philip Jung, Collier lab alum, joins Louisiana State University as an Associate Professor in Biological and Agricultural Engineering
