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The Office of Vice Chancellor for Research of UIC announces that Dr. Hong is selected as recipient of Researcher of the Year – Rising Star Award in Basic Life Sciences!
Dr. Hong participates in the 3rd International Conference on Pharmaceutics & Novel Drug Delivery System where he presents an invited talk.
Dr. Hong presents an invited talk in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Oklahoma State University.
Dr. Hong gives an invited talk in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Pharamcy.
Jason (BS, UIUC) officiallly joins the lab as the group’s first PharmD/PhD student. Welcome, Jason!
Dr. Ja Hye Myung re-joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Associate! We are very excited to retain Ja Hye in the group! Re-Welcome Dr. Myung!
Our paper entitled “Positively Charged Dendron Micelles Display Negligible Cellular Interactions” is accepted for publication in ACS Macro Letters.

The authors are the first author Ryan, Patra, Hao-Jui, Sayam, Dr. Kral, and Dr. Hong. Congratulations!

Another paper entitled “In vitro Evaluation of Dendrimer-Polymer Hybrid Nanoparticles on Their Controlled Celular Targeting Kinetics” is also accepted for publication in Molecular Pharmaceutics. The authors are the first author Suhair, Dr. Liu, Dr. Kim, and Dr. Hong. Congratulations!

University of Illinois Office of Technology Management announces that they will fund our CTC project for potential translation for commercialization!
Dr. Hong gives a department seminar in the NanoEngineering Department at University of California – San Diego.
Dr. Hong attends 2012 AIChE Annual Meeting held in Pittsburgh, PA where he gives two oral presentations and chairs two drug delivery sessions.