I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the University of New Mexico as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering this Fall 2024. At
@UNM
, I will be establishing my laboratory, "Nanomedicine Toward Health Equity" (1/5)
I got an awesome welcome from my new advisor
@NPeppas
today at UT! He has been one of my heroes for a long time. Really surreal experience and excited to start learning and get to work!
Excited for
@BMESociety
this year! I am on the market for a faculty position and am presenting my teaching, DEI, and research visions tomorrow at the Meet the Faculty session (poster
#199
). Also presenting my work with
@NPeppas
on Friday morning in the immunomodulation session
Super proud of of my undergrad student Abby today presenting her work on our project analyzing batch to batch variability of synthesis of the cationic nanoparticles!!
Proud of two of my undergraduate mentees in the
@NPeppas
lab for winning undergraduate research fellowships!
@sassyneros
for our work on sex-based differences and NP uptake and Abby for our work on zwitterion grafted NPs as an alternative for PEG immune intolerance
Our latest publication was published today online. New findings showing that charge of the therapeutic and hydrogel network are important considerations for obtaining desired loading and release kinetics
@NPeppas
New Mexico's rich diversity in its patient and student populations presents a unique environment to study and address health disparities.Additionally, I am looking forward to teaching my developed health equity course in future semesters, furthering the COE’s commitment to equity
Blessed to present my work today at
@BMESociety
both on inclusive design to improve health equity and my research on development of drug delivery systems for improved accessibility of treatments. Thanks everyone for attending and engaging!
Excited to be at
@UCDavisBME
this week to give my invited seminar “Ten simple rules in biomedical engineering to improve healthcare equity and their application in drug delivery” tomorrow from 9-10am! Hope to see you there
Really blessed to give a talk about the 10 rules for biomedical engineers to improve health equity I created with
@MykelDGreen
@cosgriffhernan
and
@GildaBarabino
at SFB today. Thanks everyone for attending!!
I am actively recruiting students to join our team starting this Fall! Students in my lab will gain hands-on experience in biomaterials and nanotechnology, cell culture and animal models, and will learn to address complex problems with an equity-focused mindset.
We will delve into innovative nanomedicine applications aimed at advancing health equity. To jump-start this mission, our research will concentrate on two primary areas: developing cutting-edge solutions for women’s health and creating accessible alternatives to infusions
Receiving the NSF Emerging STEM Scholar award today from UF President Fuchs. Then with my great lab mates Obi and Camryn who came to support me. So grateful for them and this honor
Excited to teach this course with
@MykelDGreen
with guidance from
@cosgriffhernan
this semester. Great first class with a lot of discussion. Looking forward to what we will accomplish
Just finished the first lecture for the new Ensuring Health Equity in Engineering Design grad course here
@UTBiomedical
. So excited to see how this class will evolve over the semester. One step closer to making this a required course in every BME department!
In 30 minutes,
@MykelDGreen
and I are giving the keynote talks for
@UFWertheim
biomaterials day on our health equity rules for engineers and our research where we apply these rules!! Tune in ☺️
@UFBME
@UFLChE
This week our
@UTBiomedical
health equity class learned about environmental determinants of health and global health!
@AnaMaPorras
gave a recorded interview about her work with global health, microbiome, international collaborations, and inclusive communication! Thank you Ana!
In our healthy equity course today we finished out the first block, which was about improving diversity and inclusion in STEM. The students gave case study presentations about times in their career when diversity helped or lack of diversity hindered success
@MykelDGreen
We invite you to submit an abstract for SFB 2022 in Baltimore, MD! This is your opportunity to present your work and to learn recent developments in basic and applied biomaterials research. Learn more at
Open invitation to all to come to keynote talk for Cockrell Schools Cares, an engineering org that supports student mental health. I’ll be discussing my own mental health journey and ways engineers can improve health equity
#mentalhealthmatters
#healthequityforall
Working with
@UTBiomedical
student Khyati Malik this summer on culturing primary cells to show differences in nanoparticle performance based on sex in the
@NPeppas
lab
Congrats to this great scientist Dr Olivia Lanier
@bme_olivia
for her election to
@SigmaXiSociety
More than 12 great papers and imaginative work on hydrogels, siRNA delivery, biomaterials, health disparity issues. Exciting papers in
@BMESociety
next week &
@SigmaXiSociety
Nov 4.
Finally got to present about my thesis project : magnetically triggered release of human placental proteins for wound healing!! Provisional patent application filed 10-17-2018
#bmes2018
#patent
At the pot luck for UT Graduate Students for Underrepresented Minorities (GUM). So fun! Such a great group and half the people here are my labmates in the
@NPeppas
lab!
A birthday gift from one of the undergraduate students that works with me - a vintage chemical bottle with flower . Btw we often use oleic acid to functionalize our magnetic particles
Excited to share that I was honored with the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship! Thank you to my advisor Anuj Chauhan for believing in me and giving me this chance and thank you to all of my friends and family for their love and support that brought me here
#blessed
❤️🧡💛💚
Started our second block for class today, researching and funding underrepresented areas and populations. Great guest seminar from
@kellystevenslab
on ways we can help promote DEI, in particular with making sure we are readings/citing work from diverse researchers
@MykelDGreen
Reminder to come to my talk tonight in ETC 2.316. Come to check out my personal iceberg of “what you don’t see” as far as mental health struggles and personal growth I have needed to make along the way to academic success. In addition, curated slides on resources for UT students
Besides our publications this summer, I also started working with a new undergraduate student, Khyati Malik, on sex-based differences of our nanoparticle platforms in primary cells! She’s doing an amazing job and so happy to be working with her! (Khyati - left, Reem - right)
Important new work from the lab was published today "Targeted Delivery Methods for RNA Interference Are Necessary to Obtain a Potential Functional Cure for HIV/AIDS". Work by Ethan Cisneros, Najia Sherwani,
@BmeOlivia
@NPeppas
in
@ADDReditors
The
@NPeppas
lab is alive again. Lunch with tacos and a cake for Olivia’s birthday. From front left, clockwise, Kiana, N, Drew, Heidi, Dennis, Mariya, Andrew, Andrea, Ethan, Isabela, Deidra, Nate and Olivia. Not here: Aaliyah.
Published "Design of nanoparticle-based systems for the systemic delivery of chemotherapeutics: Alternative potential routes via sublingual and buccal administration for systemic drug delivery" in
@DDTReMedia
UF BME's student organization, Inclusive Excellence, crafted 52
#WomensHistoryMonth2024
info cards spotlighting women's achievements in BME & STEM. Swing by our front desk to grab one & honor these remarkable trailblazers!
#WomenInSTEM
Looking forward to co-chairing the "Sex, Ancestral and Geographical Determinants in Biomaterials Research" with
@MykelDGreen
tomorrow at
@SFBiomaterials
. Please stop by our session tomorrow 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM in Coral 3-4 if you're interested in health equity and biomaterials :)
Please submit an abstract and spread the word about our new session at
@SFBiomaterials
2022 anual meeting “biomaterials for health disparities” due on October 25. Contact me
@MykelDGreen
or
@AnaMaPorras
for more info!!
CONGRATULATIONS to my brilliant little sister
@lex13lanier
for graduating with her degree in electrical engineering from OU this week! Now to Utah to design advanced robotic limbs 😍😍💗💯🔥
Judging the
@UTBMES
CASE competition today on their innovative designs to help low income populations deal with hazards of climate change. Here with UT alums Animon Jose,
@MPattanaikEpili
, Kunal Shah and the organizing team
We're excited to announce: Texas BME will add two UT Austin Provost Early Career Fellows this fall! Dr. Mykel Green and Dr. Olivia Lanier will receive support for 3 years to develop research and teaching portfolios in the area of health care disparities.
Today for our UG
@UTBiomedical
course on health equity, we learned about the reproductive consequences of gender-affirming hormone therapy from
@AriellaShikanov
!! Such a thought provoking & fascinating talk. The students had lots of questions and great things to say about it too
Great to finally meet
@GildaBarabino
in person this morning and to see her inspiring keynote talk! I am so amazed by the work she has done as a brave and strong leader to pave the way for women, and especially women of color, in our field.
Have you considered the cost-effectiveness of the treatments you are developing? Today we discussed this in our Health Equity course with Dr. Nicole Campos from Harvard University today. Thank you Nicole for sharing your experience with this in regards to HPV screening!
Thank you to
@NCIDirector
@NCIDrDougLowy
for giving a special lecture and having discussion with our graduate course “ensuring health equity in engineering design”. He developed the HPV vaccine technology and had a lot of insights on what we can do to improve health equity
So glad I got the opportunity to show Congressman
@RepTedYoho
the Dobson lab today! Thank you for supporting our research and coming to see our labs!
#biomedicalresearch
@UFBME
@NPeppas
@UTAustin
@UTBiomedical
I am delighted and honored to get the opportunity to work with you and work in this new program for health care disparities! I couldn’t fathom a better position ☺️
Our lab had our end of the summer series of undergraduate presentations today. Really incredible talks by all of the undergrads! Here is my undergrad student Abby, who has gone above and beyond in research endeavors this summer and has made my experience more fulfilling!
@NPeppas
Other updates from the summer, I got to see the Eiffel Tower for the first time & presented my research at the International Materials Research conference in Cancun, where
@NPeppas
was an honored speaker!
At
@MichelleGielan
‘s book signing today for her book Broadcasting Happiness. She studies positive psychology and gave us a lot of great advice today to promote joy in our lives and the lives of people around us at
@coschoolofmines
CONGRATULATIONS to my friend and labmate Dr. Obiora Azie for successfully defending his PhD today “Control over cell signaling via magnetic actuation of latent growth factors” I’m so happy for you and so proud of you
Important review in iScience "Immunotherapy Approaches for Hematological Cancers" by
@bme_olivia
, Edgar Pérez Herrero, A D'Andrea, K Bahrami, E. Lee ,
@DeidraMWard
N Ayala-Suárez, S Rodríguez-Méndez,
@NPeppas
in.iScience
Got some really nice & thoughtful bday gifts from undergrad mentees today! I guess the know I like fantasy novels with strong female leads & pink eyeshadow. Really blessed to work with such talented, bright & kind students!! Love my job
Excellent session today Representation in BME research and data for health equity II. Thank you to all the incredible speakers and engaged audience members! Some pics below
If you are at the
@SigmaXiSociety
#ifore
conference this morning, stop by my research talk in Chestnut at 10am to hear about oral drug delivery for autoimmune diseases
Last night we hosted our 47th annual Christmas/Holidays dinner for our lab. Wonderful atmosphere, great fellowship at home. Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Buon Natale, Fröhliche Weinachten, Joyeux Noël, Καλά Χριστούγεννα, С Рождеством (languages spoken in lab). 🇺🇸🇬🇷🇲🇽🇨🇴🇫🇷🇩🇪🇯🇴
Another update, in our collaboration with
@Edgar_PerezH
we published a new review on how we can use drug delivery platforms to improve outcomes for immunotherapy for cancer! Great collaboration and this is our second paper in this area