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News

09/15/2025
Sofia Mrowka’s Senior Thesis was named Highly Commended in the Medical Sciences by The Global Undergraduate Awards 2025 Programme.

06/23/2025
Lillian Kidd, a graduate student in the Therapeutic Sciences Graduate Program joins the lab! Lillian aims to investigate underlying cancer immunology mechanisms of the preclinical heparan sulfate mimietic PG-545. Welcome Lillian!

05/23/2025
Simone Duran-Nyers receives the Chemistry Department’s Graduate TA Award for her contributions as lead TA for the organic chemistry lab series.

04/08/2025
Izzy Nagle receives honorable mention on her NSF GRFP proposal, “Glycan-Targeted Delivery Systems and Diagnostics for Improved Pancreatic Cancer Treatment”. Congrats Izzy!

01/08/2025
Dr. Helen Belato joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on the directed evolution of glycan binding proteins targeting the STn antigen. We’re all excited to have you join the team – welcome Helen!

12/20/2024
The lab receives funding through the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grants for our work on carbohydrate-targeted therapeutics for pancreatic cancer.

06/01/2024
Eric Sorge receives the Reade Y. Tompson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.
Pran Teelucksingh joins the lab and receives the Reade Y. Tompson Summer Undergraduate Research Award.
The lab receives funding through the RI-INBRE ECD mechanism for our work on directed evolution of cancer-specific GBP libraries for the ultimate development of fingerprint diagnostics.

04/04/2024
Kate Gilbert receives honorable mention on her NSF GRFP proposal, “A Novel Glycoconjugate Architecture to Probe Spatial Determinants of B cell Activation for PilE Glycan Antigens of Neisseria gonorrhoeae“.

03/29/2024
Undergraduates Johanna Leang, and Tyler Rose received Brown’s UTRA award to conduct research over the summer. Congratulations to Johanna and Tyler!

03/27/2024
Kate Gilbert was accepted into Brown’s Open Graduate Education Program to obtain a Masters in Data Science concurrently with her PhD in Chemistry. Congratulations!

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