2024

News:

The paper, Autocatalytic Nucleation and Self-Assembly of Inorganic Nanoparticles into Complex Biosimilar Networks, was published in Angewandte Chemie.
Welcome to the lab, Aoife McGuinness, Research Specialist
Vishu's paper, Development of a rapid, culture-free, universal microbial identification system using internal transcribed spacer targeting primers, was published in Journal of Infectious Diseases
Kat was awarded the very prestigious Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Research Training Grant worth over $300K!
Scott renewed his Emergency Medicine Board Certification for another 5 years!

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:

Congratulations to Erika for being promoted to Research Intermediate Supervisor
Sumeyra’s paper, Self‐Organization of Iron Sulfide Nanoparticles into Complex Multicompartment Supraparticles in Advanced Materials has received 3000 views already!
Check Shamalee given a talk on her nanopillar arrays at the Macro Sympsium

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

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!

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

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

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!!

Kudos to Sumeyra for getting her proposal submitted to the Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program: https://innovationpartnerships.umich.edu/resource/coulter-translational-research-partnership-program/

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.

Welcome new lab members:
- Rachel Cohn, Undergraduate researcher
- Derek Fukuda, Undergraduate researcher
- Catherine Wellman, Research technician
Welcome back to Clara Smith, Returning undergraduate researcher

Congratulations to Mische for her successful dissertation defense and new job at Rocket Lab: https://www.rocketlabusa.com/

- Vishu and Scott were awarded a second year of funding from the Frankel Innovation Initative worth over $380K! https://medresearch.umich.edu/labs-departments/centers/frankel-innovation-initiative/award-recipients