MIT News published an article about SMART CAMP’s development of RApid DIgital Crispr Approach (RADICA) for quantifying nucleic acids. The technology can enable rapid detection of viral DNA/RNA in 40-60 minutes. You can read the full article here.
Anna was featured in MIT News’ 3 Questions. Read the full article here to learn about the group’s work on developing Artificial Axons for drug discovery.
Ming passed his Oral Qualifying Exam, administered through Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology. That makes two freshly minted PhD Candidates in VV Group this year!
VV Group had the first of our weekly summer lunches together. Here’s a picture of our group, sporting our (new!) matching picnic blankets.
Congratulations to Brandon and Cammie for receiving a Lemelson-Vest Innovation Grant. The grant will support Cammie and Brandon’s research in developing microcarriers for cell therapy manufacturing.
Anna gave a talk at MIT Deshpande Center’s IdeaStream 2021. The talk was entitled ‘Artificial Axons: Biofidelic Drig Screening Platform for Neurological Diseases’. You can watch the full version here:
Krystyn was appointed a Co-Chair of the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space. You can read more about this role here.
To celebrate Patriot’s Day Weekend, VV Group went for a picnic and bike ride along the Minuteman Trial. Here’s a picture of our group sporting our tricorn hats 🙂
Ming received the 2021-2022 Angela Leong Fellowship, which supports two MIT graduate students each year. We are grateful for the support of the Leong Family and MIT’s Office of Graduate Education.
Congrats to Cammie for passing her thesis area examination in Materials Science & Engineering – Cammie is now officially a PhD Candidate! Woohoo 🙂