Congratulations to Belen Sotomayor for winning Merck’s Best Oral Presentation Award 🥇 and to Deepali for wining Corning’s Best Poster Presentation Award🥇 at the CBE Graduate Symposium! Delisa Lab is on fire, keep shining, team! #science

Huge congratulations to Weiyao Wang on successfully passing her B exam today! 🎉🎊 Check out her work on engineering affinity-matured variants of an anti-polysialic acid monoclonal antibody with superior cytotoxicity-mediating potency #antibody #Science biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to Belen Sotomayor on her induction into the 𝐁𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 at Yale University as one of the Cornell University representatives! Her leadership, scholarship, character, service, and advocacy embody this prestigious honor #STEM #Leadership

Congratulations to the Chatterjee Lab and Tina Ye from our lab on this exciting new publication! We introduce “deubiquibodies” (duAbs) that selectively stabilize proteins. Our study is now available at Nature Communications ! #SyntheticBiology #ProteinEngineering

How are we going to develop more domestic manufacturing capability that can deliver medicines? #cellfree biotechnology can help. Check out our new manuscript on scalable cell-free protein synthesis w? Ashty Karim DeLisa Research Group Rochelle Aw doi.org/10.1002/bit.28…

Thrilled to share our efforts in showcasing the manufacturing capabilities of cell-free gene expression for biotherapeutics.

Thrilled to share that Harry Zou has being awarded the NSF GRFP 2025!!! He’ll be working on novel delivery strategies for ubiquibodies, with applications in targeted protein degradation. Huge congratulations Harry!

Congratulations to Belen Sotomayor on receiving the Spring 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐨𝐞𝐲 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝, the highest honor awarded to a graduate student by Cornell University’s CBE Department!

Antibodies are important therapeutics, but producing them in bacteria has been difficult due to glycosylation. w/ Matthew DeLisa Belen Sotomayor we discovered an enzyme that can glycosylate the native Fc acceptor sequence. Pretty cool. Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

The test phase of biological design is too slow. How can we accelerate it? We show how cell-free systems can be used to speed up the study of post-translational modifications for RiPPs and glycosylation. Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

More than 30% of the world's population lacks access to essential medicines. What if we could make medicines when and where they are needed? Enter #cellfree biomanufacturing. With DeLisa Research Group Matthew DeLisa we show a new approach to portable medicine making. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

PepMLM is out in Nature Biotechnology! 🎭Want a short binder for any target? Just input its sequence + desired binder length → PepMLM unmasks it. Simple? No way? The results speak for themselves. 👇 📜: nature.com/articles/s4158… 💻: github.com/programmablebi… 🤗: huggingface.co/ChatterjeeLab/…

A wonderful article on PepMLM by Fay Lin, PhD in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News! 🌟 Really captures how we think about sequence vs. structure and how, via experimental collaboration, we've gotten biologists (like Ray Truant, DeLisa Research Group, and Hector Aguilar-Carreño) to believe in sequence-based design. 💚