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The Nanosystems & Gene Engineering Lab is growing, and we have lots of news to share with you.

New Plasmid

September 2024. The lentiviral FlipGFP-T2A-mCherry vector used in our paper published in Lab on a Chip is now available at Addgene! đź”—

2024 SB3C Conference

June 2024. Zoey presented a poster at SB3C in Wisconsin.

Congratulations!

May 2024. Zoey has completed her undergraduate degree and will continue her master training in the lab.

ASGCT 27th annual meeting

May 2024. Sima gave a talk at ASGCT 2024 in Baltimore.

Visitor

April 2024. It’s our pleasure to have Dr. KiBum Lee to come visit us and give a seminar talk on the topic of novel drug delivery systems for CNS repair.

SPPS Poster Day

April 2024. Zoey did an awesome job presenting her project in the SPPS Poster Day event!

Congratulations!

April 2024. Zoey’s abstract has been selected as a finalist for the 2024 SB3C BS Level Student Paper Competition!

Team building!

March 2024. We had Lab Lunch at Jazzboline.

Care for Rare:
From Bench to Bedside

"Alone we are rare, together we are strong"

February 2024. Sima gave a talk at the UB Rare Disease Day event.

Welcome!

January 2024. We’re so glad to have Morgan joining our team!

New Plasmids

November 2023. The single- and dual- guide AAV cloning vectors used in our FUS/CRISPR paper published in PNAS are now available at Addgene!đź”—

Top Reviewer!

November 2023. Sima was recognized by Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences as one of the 2023 Top Reviewers🔗

Visitor

September 2023. It is nice to see the previous mentee Rachel in Buffalo!

Visitor

August 2023. It is awesome to have our friend, Dr Ming-Feng Hsueh from Duke, visit our lab at UB.

Welcome!

August 2023. We are so happy to have Samjhana joining our lab!

15th Buffalo Pharmaceutics Symposium

July 2023. Sima and Gigi presented in Buffalo Pharmaceutics Symposium!

New Funding!

June 2023. We just got our first NIH grant from NINDS. This will support us to explore more on brain genome editing!

Service

May 2023. Sima will be serving on American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy’s New Investigator Committee for the upcoming term 2023-2026.

We are on Addgene!

March 2023. Check our first plasmid on Addgene: https://www.addgene.org/197417/ We used this dual-targeting Cas9 plasmid in our recently published Nano Letters and Advanced Functional Materials papers. More will come this year!

Visitor

October 2022. It’s our pleasure to have Dr. Kam Leong here and give a talk in our departmental seminar on the topic of using cationic nanoparticles to scavenge cell-free nucleic acid DAMPs

Seminar talk

October 2022. Gigi gave a talk on “Development of Microfluidic 3D Cell Array to study Tumor-Stroma Interactions and Drug dynamics” in the departmental seminar.

First semester

September 2022. Our first semester at UB started! We are looking for passionate students to join the team

Award winner

May 2022. Sima was invited to the ceremony for his Career Development Award and to give a talk on the topic of “Spatially-controlled Brain Gene Editing Guided by Noninvasive Focused Ultrasound” in the 25th ASGCT Annual Meeting in Washington DC.

Lab officially started

May 2022. We officially started in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. The lab on the first day was empty but filled with our enthusiasm! Looking forward to our new adventure here!
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