⚠️For PhDs who are thinking about jumping ship and diving into industry:

Industry isn't necessarily better than academia.

I have straddled both worlds. Here are 5 MYTHS about academia vs. industry:

Calling for applications for GRC Drug Carriers, which I'm co-chairing w Vadim Dudkin in Portland, ME. Was invited to attend this morning. :) Apply soon, we will be oversubscribed. We have a beautiful speaker line-up, even a Reproductive Health Session!

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Excited to share this Special Feature of PNASNews on RNA Delivery Systems, co-edited with James Dahlman ⁦with contributions from ⁦Doudna Lab⁩ ⁦Feng Zhang⁩ ⁦Prof. Katie Whitehead⁩ and more. pnas.org/topic/564

.Carnegie Mellon Chemical Engineering's Kathryn Whitehead (@KWhiteheadLab) is addressing the urgent need for new therapies that maintain safety in both the pregnant person and their fetus.

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Only 6 months until #GRCDrugCarriers Aug 4-9 in Portland, ME! Co-chaired by yours truly & the amazing Vadim Dudkin of Souffle Tx - below in 2018 upon election, now both with less hair & more wisdom. Apply at grc.org/drug-carriers-…

#DCMB2024

I really like most Thorp editorials. But this one is all over the place & tries to link the broad (SciComm) w something oddly specific (treatmnt of glam editors by small frac of authors). And it’s messed up he thinks his role is to pick papers that “deserve” to be in Science.

How to make faculty meeting more exciting? Wrong answers only.

All you need is love.

Join us for the DELIVERY OF NUCLEIC ACID THERAPEUTICS Keystone Symposia ! Co-organized with Prof. Katie Whitehead
JANUARY 22 - 25, 2024 | ALBERTA, CANADA
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Submit your abstract today!
#mRNA #LNP #nanoparticles #polymers #CRISPR

Two days left to submit an abstract for short talk consideration + scholarship application to the Keystone meeting on Nucleic Acid Delivery that Daniel Siegwart and I are organizing in January in Banff. I hate snow lol but maybe you love it. ⛷️

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Super proud of Mariah and everything she has done for the chemical engineering and broader STEM community.

Congrats to the amazing Kati Karikó & Drew Weissman on their Nobel Prize for vaccine-enabling mRNA science. I’ve been privileged to work & interact with them.

Brilliance is par for the course when it comes to Nobels; being a good, generous person makes it even more special. 💗

Curious to understand the parameters important for dry powder formulation for LNP delivery of mRNA to the lung? Please enjoy our recent paper focusing on how formulation optimization to create a spray drying optimal LNP formulation with functional delivery in a POC in vivo study

Reposting this 🌲

Congratulations to Carnegie Mellon Chemical Engineering alum Neha Kapate, PhD on her PhD and moving to AbbVie. Very proud!

When our trainees get ready to leave the lab to start their independent academic journey, they often ask me for advice on how to advise students. I tell them that the following four principles have guided me in my own advising journey Harvard SEAS Wyss Institute

Had a terrific time camping with Carnegie Mellon Chemical Engineering Profs. Jim Schneider, Carl Laird, and our kiddos this weekend at Raccoon Creek State Park. Bacon, s’mores, and ice cream outdoors. 🌲

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who to be?

- Charles Bukowski

Delighted to share one of our first papers on drug delivery during pregnancy.

Thanks to Kathy Fein (now at Merck) & co-authors Mariah Arral, Ph.D., Julie Kim, & Alex Newby for their terrific work.

So proud of Samir Mitragotri and forever grateful to have been his student.