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2024

News:

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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