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2026

January

  • Our manuscript entitled, Targeting of Bacteria Using Amylase-Degradable, Copper-Loaded Starch Nanoparticles was accepted for publication at Antibiotics.

  • Kat submitted abstract to SAEM meeting

  • Scott submitted the urine culture study feature work from Clara and Cat to SAEM meeting

  • Kat and Aoife successfully cannulated 4 animals in one day!

  • Clemence manuscript entitled, Genetic Insights into the Rheological Phenotype of Candida albicans Biofilms, feature work from Linqi was submitted to npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

  • Kat's abstract to AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting was accepted and congratulations are in order as it comes with a travel award

2025

News:

November

  • Huge thank you to Erika for the near flawless EHS inspection

  • Scott submitted his Impact Institute grant proposal entitled, AI-accelerated Design of Antimicrobial Nanoparticle Therapies (ADAPT)

  • Scott submitted his NIH R01 application entitled, Carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) to target integrity and virulence of staphylococcal biofilms

  • Vishu submitted LOI for an EMF proposal

  • Linqi presenting her first poster at a national conference

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October

  • Congratulations to Kat for officially starting her new faculty appointment!

  • Scott's LOI was accepted for a full application for a UM Impact Institute

  • Joey, Cat, Samha and Linqi all shared their projects at the BI research day

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September

  • Kat gave the EM departmental research seminar presentation this month

  • Three abstracts were submitted to the 2025 ASM biofilm meeting

  • Congratulations to Linqi for passing her TPE!

  • Vishu submitted full proposal to Taubman Institute

  • Scott submitted full SBIR Phase 2 proposal to NIH for the VAP project

  • LOIs submitted to:

    • Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Vishu)

    • UM impact institutes (Scott)

    • Frankel Innovation Institute (Scott)

    • Mathers  Institute (Scott & Vishu)​​

  • Thanks to Aoife and Erin for helping us pass our IACUC inspection

  • A manuscript via our collaboration with the Min Lab entitled, Multiscale Hybrid Surface Topographies Orchestrate Immune Regulation, Antibacterial Defense, and Tissue Regeneration, was accepted for publication at Advanced Healthcare Materials

  • Kat presented her abstract at the ACEP Annual Meeting

July

  • Sumeyra submitted an International PCT patent application entitled: Hedgehog-Shaped Particles With Multiscale Chirality And Mirror Asymmetry For The Analysis Of Nanostructured Biological Assemblies

  • Vishu's proposal to the Gerber Foundation entitled: R2 the Rescue: A New Standard for Neonatal Sepsis Detection was invited for a full proposal submission.

  • Cat submitted her stacked-filter design for prototyping

June

  • Shamalee defended her PhD dissertation!

May

  • Kat will be the communications director for SAEM BATS (basic and translational science) group

April

  • Brandye and Aoife updated our chemical  and general supplies inventories, no small task!

  • We passed out BSL-2 Lab inspection

  • Cat and Clara completed our first clinical validation study of the R2 bacterial identification system for the Frankel Innovation Initiative

  • Sumeyra's proposal entitled, ChiroFlux: A Novel Platform for Rapid, Marker-Agnostic Extracellular Vesicle Capture for Clinical and Research Applications was advanced to next round for additional funding!

  • Priyan's proposal entitled, Antimicrobial Hydrogels for Wound Healing was advanced to next round for Coulter funding!

  • Rachel submitted her honor's thesis

  • Graduations: 

    • Derek - B.S., Biomedical Engineering​, Summa Cum Laude

    • Rachel - B.S., Microbiology, Honors Thesis

  • The VanEpps Lab represented 20% of the posters presented at the 10th Annual William G. Barsan Emergency Medicine Research Forum: ​

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  • Check out Kat giving her presentation at the Barsan Research Forum

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March

  • Lauren got our new anaerobic chamber up and running​​

  • Thank you to Aoife for facilitating access for dissection training

  • Thank you to Lauren and Erin for keeping us compliant for our IACUC inspection

  • Scott attended the 2nd session of the Chair Development Program sponsored by SAEM

February

  • Aoife completed her ULAM training and now has vivarium access​​

  • We celebrated the 10-year anniversary of EC3

January

2024

News:

December

November

  • Welcome new lab members:

    • Joey Melaragni, Undergraduate researcher​

    • Linqi Huang, Graduate student in Chemical Engineering

  • Scott's interview with SAEM Pulse was featured on the cover:​​​

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  • ​Kudos to Vishu for submitting proposal entitled, Developing A Universal Bacterial Identification System To Improve Outcomes In Neonates With Sepsis to CARB-X for $1.5M

  • Our Industry Partner, Pyogenix, Inc. submitted an NIH STTR proposal with the VanEpps Lab as the academic partner

  • Shamalee had her data meeting for Macro and was cleared to write her dissertation!

  • Sumeyra’s paper, Self‐Organization of Iron Sulfide Nanoparticles into Complex Multicompartment Supraparticles in Advanced Materials has received 3000 views already!

  • VanEpps Lab receive Bronze Level Sustainable Laboratory Certification​

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October

  • Kudos to Kat for submitting her proposal entitled, Physical manipulation of vascular endothelium for therapeutic applications to the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for $700K.  

  • Kudos to Vishu for:

    • EOI for a CARB-X grant that was accepted for a full submission

    • Submission of a manuscript to mBio

    • Receiving positive reviewer comments for his manuscript at Journal of Infectious Diseases

  • Taylor’s paper, Antimicrobial wound dressings for full thickness infected burn wounds was published at Shock

  • Kudos to Sumeyra for receiving positive reviewer comments for her manuscript at Angewandte Chemie

  • Kudos to Clemence for submitting her manuscript to Genetics

  • Scott gave the Emergency Medicine Departmental Research Seminar entitled, VanEpps Lab: Creative approaches to life-threatening infections

  • Kudos to Scott for:

    • Submitting R01 application on antibiofilm carbon nanoparticles

    • Submitting R01 application on sepsis phenotyping

    • Contributing to 2 R21 submissions this cycle

  • Check out video recognizing Kat her EMF award!​

September

  • Congratulations to Sumeyra who was awarded the 2024 BI Community Innovator Award including a $1,500 prize!

  • Welcome new lab members:

    • Owen Chun, Undergraduate researcher​

    • Samha Amin, Undergraduate researcher

  • We passed our IACUC inspection!  Thank you to Erin and Lauren​

  • Farwell to Clemence, who is moving on to Montreal

June

  • Taylor’s manuscript, Antimicrobial wound dressings for full thickness infected burn wounds was accepted at Shock.

  • Olivia’s manuscript Continuous Sepsis Trajectory Prediction using Tensor-Reduced Physiological Signals was accepted at Scientific Reports.

  • Kat was awarded $10K from the Emergency Medicine Foundation for her Resident Research Proposal, Kat: Adverse effects of adjuvant heat treatment for catheter salvage in central line associated bloodstream infection

  • Sumeyra’s proposal, Rapid extracellular vesicle isolation and identification as a versatile disease biomarker was awarded $150,000 by the Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program

May

  • Scott was awarded Organizational Advancement Award for his work on the SAEM Foundation Board of Trustees

  • The SAEM Foundation received a $1M donation during the SAEM meeting!!

April

  • We passed our BSL-2 inspection! Nice work Erika.

March

  • We passed our ULAM inspection! Nice work Shannon, Lauren, and Erin.

  • Sumeyra’s Coulter proposal moves on to the in-person pitch phase!

February

Jaunary

  • Congratulations to Vishu and Pallavi on the birth of their new baby

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  • ​Kat successfully submitted her EMF Resident Research Grant

  • Congratulations to Olivia who successfully defended her dissertation defense!

  • Scott was awarded a “Valuing Our Own” discretionary award worth over $2K from the medical school.

  • Our paper, Rapid diagnosis of bloodstream infections using a culture-free phenotypic platform accepted at Paper accepted to Communications Medicine.

  • Congratulations to Chloe Luyet for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, A Computational Characterization of Nanoscale Interactions of Biological Systems

  • Huge thank you to Lauren and Erika for getting our CO2 incubators back in working order and Cody from the Wicha lab for letting us use theirs in the meantime

  • Olivia’s paper was published in Diagnostics.

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2023

December

  • Welcome new lab members:

    • Rachel Cohn, Undergraduate researcher

    • Derek Fukuda, Undergraduate researcher

    • Catherine Wellman, Research technician

  • Welcome back to Clara Smith, Returning undergraduate researcher

November

September

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