Had a wonderful time at 12th World Biomaterials Congress (WBC 2024)! So nice to reconnect with old friends, meet new folks, and hear about exciting science. Especially great to hear talks by The Desai Lab @ UCSF members Justin Zhong 钟翔宇 and Preethi Raghavan Now for some vacation before Bioinspired GRC in Switzerland!

What a nice surprise when I walked into lab meeting today! And a warm welcome to our The Leadership Alliance #SREIP undergrads!

🚨 Final Call for Late Breakers! 🚨Looking forward to your submissions and the exciting discussions they will spark at the 2024 Regional Symposia! Submit before midnight on 6/7 to be considered - bit.ly/3IYnzFi #biomaterials

A fantastic exit talk by Darnell Cuylear who completed the PhD portion of his DDS/PhD UC San Francisco Graduate Division UCSF Dentistry. Darnell brought together a unique combination of materials science, bone biology, in vivo orthodontic relapse models, and more. Keep an eye on this rising star!

Submit abstract & register 1st BMEMat-Adv Mater Joint Symposium (Aug 13-16, mp.weixin.qq.com/s/goNTFJQH7fh8…) to hear talks by Nicholas A. Peppas, The Leong Lab, Samir Mitragotri, Tejal A. Desai, Maryam Tabrizian, Diego Mantovani, Xuesi Chen, & journal editors (Nature Biomedical Engineering, Adv Mater, Matter) in Hong Kong.

This year, CRS is happy to announce that childcare will be offered to attendees of the Annual Meeting. This service will be provided Monday, July 8 - Thursday, July 11 from 9 am - 5 pm. If you are interested, please complete the request form. 👉 ow.ly/yt4950Sj7Bi #CRS2024

A new congressional blueprint for restructuring the NIH has been released. It proposes consolidating NIH's 27 IC's and centers into 15 categories, plus term limits for directors. It adds a national security review to grant apps. Public comments due Aug. 16 energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chair-ro…

Excited that our new paper is out! Led by Deblin Jana Brown Engineering The Desai Lab @ UCSF in collaboration with Rob Flavell UCSF Imaging , we show enhanced prostate specific membrane antigen targeting by DNA scaffolded nanoparticle ligand presentation ACS Nano pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

#BMEUNITE is launching Year 4 of our Future Faculty Program! #BME faculty candidates from underrepresented groups on the job market - apply here by Jul 15th to present your work and receive mentorship to successfully navigate the academic job market: forms.gle/uEKxEkpCXMHCFD…

Ligand density and presentation-controlled design principles based on DNA scaffolded nanoparticles can enhance metastatic prostate cancer targeting. Brown Engineering UCSF Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences Tejal A. Desai Read it here 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

.Nature Reviews Bioengineering is hosting the ultimate bioengineering challenge, asking students and postdocs to theoretically tackle some of the most pressing bioengineering challenges. Learn more here: go.nature.com/4bgUZux

Interested in how nanostructures influence therapeutic transport across epithelial barriers? Check out this collaborative review by the Koval and Desai labs for a special issue on Tight Junction and Its Proteins Emory School of Medicine UCSF Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences Brown Engineering mdpi.com/2848792

📢Exciting news! Join us for the extraordinary Chats with Luminaries event and ask all your questions to leading controlled release science luminaries. Don't miss this amazing opportunity! Mike Mitchell Yvonne Perrie Samir Mitragotri Tejal A. Desai stefaan de smedt #CRS2024 Controlled Release Society

Wonderful to be at Controlled Release Society in Bologna — sharing great science with a great community!

We can’t wait for you to join us here Brown Engineering!

Looking forward to tomorrow's mini-symposium on cancer and bioengineering at Brown! Exciting talks scheduled from Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP, Tejal A. Desai, Theresa Raimondo, Sean Lawler, Michelle R Dawson, Robert W. Sobol, Tripathi Lab at Brown University, Megan E. Kizer and more! Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University, Brown University Center for Biomedical Engineering, Brown Engineering

Outstanding talks this morning by Brown University Engineering Dean Dr. Tejal Desai Tejal A. Desai and recently recruited faculty member Dr. Theresa Rainomdo Theresa Raimondo at the Bioengineering and Cancer Symposium organized by Robert W. Sobol and Ian Wong Lab at Brown. @[email protected] Exciting opportunities

Love the exchange of new ideas at the intersection of cancer and engineering! Thanks for inviting me!

Wonderful to have amazing summer students Kayla Mash CU Boulder 🦬 and Meerab Aziz University of North Texas, part of The Leadership Alliance REU, in our Brown Engineering lab this summer!

We're so excited to welcome our newest cohort of BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows! Register for the webinar series here: tinyurl.com/bmeUNITE24 Roberto Alonso Matilla Tania López Silva Kristen Jakubowski Chia-Wen Chang Stephanie Fung Camilo A. Duarte-Cordon Ishita Jain Nzinga Mack, PhD @sadewill93 Lena Gamboa