The CCIB congratulates our first graduate, Dr. Matt Niepielko, for winning a prestigious NSF Career Award. During his time with the CCIB, Dr. Niepielko worked in the Yakoby lab where he studied developmental genetics in fruit flies. He then went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University and he is now an Assistant Professor… continue reading
The CCIB gathered together to celebrate a year of research at our annual retreat hosted at the Joint Health Science Center on December 15th. We were proud to host Dr. Ursula Jakob from the University of Michigan as the keynote speaker, Dr. Brian Corbett and Dr. Hunter King as the faculty spotlight. We also saw… continue reading
Congratulations to Dr. Griepenburg for being awarded an NSF grant for her work in gold nanoparticle technology! Previously, the Griepenburg lab has focused their research on the abilities of gold nanoparticles and how they can be used to release energy from carrier vesicles, called polymersomes. This award will allow the Griepenburg lab to continue this… continue reading
Congratulations to Dr. Lamoureux for being awarded an NSF grant in collaboration with Drs. Sagar Khare, Jean Baum, Adam Gormley, and Sijian Wang from Rutgers University – New Brunswick. This grant will be used to develop targeted protein editors. Specifically, the Lamoureux Lab will be machine learning models to design proteins that have high affinity… continue reading
The CCIB would like to welcome a few new members of our faculty and staff. We would like to welcome Dr. Hunter King from the physics department and Dr. Brian Corbett from the Biology department as full faculty members of the CCIB. We would also like to welcome Sarah Johnson as our new Senior Programs… continue reading
The CCIB is excited to welcome our 2022 graduate class! The cohort is made of 11 PhD students and 6 Masters students. Of the incoming PhD students, 5 of them are continuing from our master’s program. Good luck to all of our new students during their time here!
