Happy new year! 🎉 We're kicking off 2025 with excitement as we expand into our newly renovated molecular biology lab space! 🧬⚗️🔬✨ Ready for fresh beginnings and new discoveries ahead!

Excited to be on the inaugural Advisory Board for #RSCPharmaceutics! 🎉👨🏻‍🔬📚 It is an incredible honour, I look forward to working with this talented group of professionals to help shape the success of this journal & support impactful research! 💡🧪💊 blogs.rsc.org/pm/2024/12/10/…

Thrilled to share my thoughts on the power of #PeerReview 🔍 and my journey as part of the European Jrnl of Pharmaceutics & Biopharmaceutics Young Investigators program! 👨🏻‍🔬⚗️🧪💊 Thanks Elsevier & Liana Cafolla for this feature 🙏🏻 - check out the article here: elsevier.com/connect/more-e…

Me: telling my students not to procrastinate on assignments 😇😌😎 Also me: writing & compiling my 153-page mid-tenure review package in the last hours before its due 😅🫣😱🫠

Had an amazing time at TAMEST 2025 this week in Irving as a TAMEST Protégé! 🙌🏻 🎉💡 Many thanks to my UTEP Biomedical Engineering program director Thomas Boland for the nomination, and the organizers for selecting my work as one of the top 20 to be featured in the Poster Challenge! 👨🏻‍🔬🏅 🔬 ✨

Wrapping up an inspiring 2 days at the 2nd Annual @UTSystem Trauma Research Symposium! 🤕🚑🦾🦿 It was great presenting our posters & engaging with the trauma research community. Very grateful to @UTTRC4 for the funding support - we're inspired to keep pushing forward! 👨🏻‍🔬🔬⚗️💉

Singing O Canada loud and proud after winning the #4Nations Face-Off. 🇨🇦 What a feeling.

Bonus content 🤩: We made a video to explain our current understanding of the nanoparticle delivery process, tying together our findings across the past 10 years. youtu.be/0VaroRCycQg

Thanks Howard University College of Pharmacy and Dr Baskaran for inviting me to share the cool research happening in Poon Lab @ UTEP at their departmental seminar series! 👨🏻‍🔬💊🔬✨ What a beautiful campus to visit with (some) blooming cherry blossoms! 🌸🌸🌸

Friends! I'll be at #ACSSpring2025 in San Diego this week! Come check out my talk in the ACS BIOT / ACS POLY Division session on Delivery and Targeting of Nanoparticles on Tues Mar 25 afternoon! 🚚👨🏻‍🔬🧪⚗️ Also, please send recommendations for restaurants, cafes, and bars! 🍽️☕️🍻

Back from #ACSSpring2025 in San Diego! 👨🏻‍🔬⚗️🔬✨ Was great to catch up with old friends from grad school and beyond, as well as spend time in nature to recharge 🏖️🏄🏻‍♂️🌴🌸

Thank you Chixia Tian for inviting me to visit Virginia Tech Science! 🦃🎓🧪⚗️ It was a pleasure giving my lecture in Advanced Nanomedicine, sharing Poon Lab @ UTEP research, and connecting with the brilliant faculty & students! Grateful for the hospitality & insightful conversations! ✨🔬👨🏻‍🔬💡

Our latest research from Poon Lab @ UTEP - "Development of Chemical Tags for Universal Lipid Nanoparticle Visualization and Tracking in 2D and 3D Imaging" - is now published in Nano Letters! ✨🔬🧫🐁 Learn more about our SPARKLE tags here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Extremely proud of Poon Lab @ UTEP this academic year, we cleaned up at the MMBME Annual Banquet last night!🥳🎉🍾🥂 4 graduates, 2 research awards, 2 departmental achievement awards, 2 academic honors, and 2 student organization recognitions! 🎓🎖️🏆🥇 #proudPI

🧵1/ Excited to share my latest first-author paper published in Nano Letters! We developed a fluorescent peptide tag called SPARKLE, which remains after lipid removal - finally enabling reliable tracking of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) in 2D & 3D imaging! doi.org/10.1021/acs.na…

Cool work from Yifan Wang, PhD, Wen Jiang, and Betty Y.S. Kim, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FAIMBE on NanoSafari, an AI copilot for nanoparticle design and drug delivery! 🤖🧪👨🏻‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬 Check it out here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

What a privilege it is to once again be the history speaker at the UTEP Engineering Pre-Commencement Order of the Engineer & Hooding Ceremony! Congrats to all the new initiates & a special shout-out to Mario 🔥, soon-to-be 2nd MS grad from Poon Lab @ UTEP ! 🎓🥂🍾🙌🏻