Senior Design Day was a blast! The event featured 57 design projects that required cross-disciplinary cooperation to include students from different engineering fields. Congratulations to everyone who contributed and made Design Day a success! 💙

Dean @krishroylab presented 12 faculty awards at a May 6 reception—including one recognizing efforts working with graduate students on an outstanding research paper. Seven staff members also received awards. Congratulations all! 🎉 Read more: engineering.vanderbilt.edu/2025/05/06/dea…

Was an honor to co-hood ⁦Alexander Sorets⁩ with ⁦Ethan Lippmann⁩ at graduation on Friday. Alex has big things ahead.

New paper out today in Nature BME on our albumin binding siRNA conjugate as a disease modifying drug for arthritis. Great team effort to get this out. If you’re a postdoc candidate or RNA chemist interested in this type of work, please hit me up! nature.com/articles/s4155…

Excited to share a new manuscript from collaborative work with Ethan Lippmann led by our coadvised student Alexander Sorets. Alex applied siRNA conjugates into the CSF and characterized brain transport and cell type-dependent gene silencing. academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

⁦⁦VINSE Vanderbilt⁩ REU summer student Nicolas Poliak finished off his productive summer of research last week. Thanks to Ava and Jack for mentoring him the past 10 weeks. Good luck to Nicolas back ⁦Johns Hopkins University⁩ this fall.

The multi-talented Dr. Justin Lo from the lab performed at the ⁦Vanderbilt Health⁩ cancer center ‘talent show’ last week. What a fun lunchtime break from the grind!

Group photo from Duvall annual lab retreat to kick off 25-26 academic year. What a fun day highlighting and discussing everyone’s work!

Was a beautiful day for the annual lab canoe trip on the caney fork. Refreshed and ready to dive into a new academic year!