If you’re at BMES this week, check out some of the work from our group on Thursday and Friday. See you in Seattle!

Make sure to check out Helena’s presentation on her award-winning poster from SFB Immune Engineering SIG on Dec 6th at 12:00 pm! bit.ly/3Fy3luU

New Project is up in our website! A few months ago Pablo Cordero Alvarado passed his prelim exam and became a PhD candidate. In my lab, when students complete this major milestone, we celebrate their success and add their project to our lab website with a unique logo.

🚨New Collier Lab paper🚨 We took advantage of natural antibodies against phosphorylcholine to design a supramolecular peptide nanofiber active immunotherapy for IBD. 🎉Congrats Elizabeth Curvino and co-authors! Tatiana Segura Helena Freire Haddad mia woodruff Alexa Anderson

Congrats to our Immune Engineering SIG SFBiomaterials awardees Tanvi Pathrikar Bajpayee Lab, Helena Freire Haddad Collier Lab, and Rebeca Stiepel Kristy Ainslie! Amazing Webinar talks yesterday! (also to Sehwan Jeong who could not make it). Thanks also to our SFB/IE community for your support!

Congratulations to two of our favorite Duke Biomedical Engineering friends, Tatiana Segura for the Clemson award for contribution to the literature and Collier Lab for the Clemson award for basic research. So fortunate to have such incredible colleagues!!!

Check out our new publication in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. Congrats to first author Ben Cossette and all coauthors! 👨‍🔬💉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

New publication alert! We developed a complement C5a-targetting active immunotherapy with applications in models of sepsis and arthritis. Congrats Kelly Hainline and co-authors Helena Freire Haddad Anna Gilpin Elizabeth Curvino shyni varghese sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Huge congratulations to Collier Lab superstar undergrad mia woodruff ! Mia was awarded with the NSF GRFP and will be joining Immunoengineering Lab at Vanderbilt University in the Fall. We are so proud!

🔥New publication in ACS Biomat Sci & Eng: Supramolecular Peptide Self-Assemblies Facilitate Oral Immunization Congrats to Elizabeth Curvino and co-authors mia woodruff Emily Roe Helena Freire Haddad Pablo Cordero Alvarado doi.org/10.1021/acsbio…

Our lab members attended Duke Biomedical Engineering department retreat early this week. We won best group video for the rapid fire talks! 🏖️🔬

Don’t miss our students’ presentations this week in Daegu at #WBC2024 !

New Collier lab publication! We utilized supramolecular peptide materials in an anti-cytokine active immunotherapy to target IL-1B mediated inflammation. Congrats Shamitha Shetty and co-authors! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Excited to have been present in an outstanding presentation by Joel Collier today during his SFB Clemson Award Talk for Basic Science. Amazing work! Congratulations Joel! 🎉 Excited to be your colleague Duke Biomedical Engineering Duke Engineering

Congratulations to Joel Collier Duke University on receiving the prestigious Clemson Award for Basic Research from SFBiomaterials for his seminal contributions to biomaterials field! The award was presented @ SFB Southeast Symposium held Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience @ GT along w/ a live streamed plenary talk!

Congratulations to Ben Cossette for defending his thesis today, titled “Engineering Hypoallergenic Allergen Vaccine Immunogens Based on Self-Assembling Supramolecular Peptide Nanofibers”. Good luck on your next adventures, we will miss you! 🥜👨🏻‍🔬

Don’t miss our lab members’ presentations at #BMES2024 and the LatinXinBME symposium this week!

🔥New Collier Lab publication🔥 We employed supramolecular peptide nanofibers to interfere with C3a and C5a activity in vivo and better understand the role of both anaphylatoxins in LPS-induced sepsis. Congrats Helena Freire Haddad and co-authors! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Looking forward to #SFB2025 this week! I will be presenting my current work on a targetless immunotherapy for septic shock. Hope to see you there!

Check out our latest publication - Differential Sensitivity to Interepitope Spacing in Mast Cells and B Cells Enables Design of Hypoallergenic Allergen Vaccine Immunogens | ACS Nano pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Congrats to Ben Cossette and co-authors!