Lab News

Our postdoc, Dr. Jiyoon Bu, accepted an offer from Inha University in Korea to join its Biomedical Engineering faculty as an Assistant Professor as of March 1st, 2022. This great achievement makes him the fifth university faculty from our lab! Congratulations Jiyoon, and we will miss you!!!

Falk Medical Trust supports our collaborative project with Dr. Allan Brasier on tackling pulmonary fibrosis for next three years.  This 1-million dollar Transformational Award is a continuation of our collaboration being supported by the same foundation through its Catalyst program.

Dr. JinWoong Lee and Do Hyeon Jung from Sungkyungkwan University (Seoul, South Korea) joined our lab as visiting scientists. Welcome!

Our graduate student Caroline Hopkins passed the preliminary exam today. Congratulations on becoming an official PhD candidate!

Ashita Nair, a graduate student from our lab, earned PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences with her thesis of “Hybrid Nanoparticles Integrating Dendritic Polymers and Lipids for Oligonucleotide Delivery in Cancer Therapeutics.” Congratulations, Dr. Nair!!

Jiyoon’s paper describing Tri-modal liquid biopsy with colleagues at Chungnam National University has recently been accepted for publication by Clinical and Translational Medicine. Ashita’s manuscript describing a novel dendron-lipid nanoparticle for drug and gene delivery has been accepted by Biomacromolecules.

Patrick Henry, a PharmD student who has conducted research with the Hong lab for the past year, has recently been awarded the Ronald T. and Pamela K. Borchardt Scholarship. Congratulations!

DaWon Kim, a graduate of Underwood International College of Yonsei University, and Piper Rawding, a graduate of UW-Madison, join the Hong Lab as new graduate students in the PharmSci program. Welcome DaWon and Piper!

Our postdoc, Dr. Woo-jin Jeong, accepted an offer from Inha University in Korea to join its Biomedical Engineering faculty as an Assistant Professor as of Sept. 1st. This great achievement makes him the third university faculty from our lab! Congratulations Woo-jin!!!

Our paper entitled “An Avidity-based PD-L1 Antagonist Using Nanoparticle-Antibody Conjugates for Enhanced Immunotherapy” has been accepted for publication by Nano Letters. The authors are Jiyoon, Ashita, Mari, Woo-jin, Mike, Kara, Luke, Elizabeth, Dr. Wheeler, and Dr. Hong. Congratulations!