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Brown’s Assistant professors Theresa M. Raimondo and Monica Martinez Wilhemus were selected to participate at the 2025 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. This key activity of the National Academy of Engineering will take place in September at the University of Pennsylvania. Participants selected for this event must be nominated by fellow engineers or organizations representing broad engineering disciplines. You can read Brown’s School of Engineering article here.

Dr. Raimondo presented a talk at the I-BEAM Anti-Cancer Immunoengineering Symposium sponsored by the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University. The title of her talk was “Therapeutic Macrophage Activation using RNA-Lipid Nanoparticles for Metastatic Ovarian Cancer.”

The Raimondo Lab presented posters at the seventh annual Dr. Samuel M. Nabrit Conference for Early Scholars. This event was hosted by the Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry Department at Brown, and highlights outstanding molecular life science research of early career scientists. The title of our posters were “Engineered Lipid Nanoparticles for Efficient siRNA Delivery and Silencing of Tyrosine Kinase in Macrophages” and “Kinase-Selective siRNAs, and Optimized Lipid Nanoparticles, for Therapeutic Silencing in Ovarian Cancer”. Congratulations to Angelina Schorr, Joshua Acosta Gonzalez, and ShuLan Holmes-Farley!

Congratulations to ShuLan Holmes-Farley for obtaining her Masters degree! Brown’s School of Engineering recognized ShuLan’s Master’s thesis as outstanding, making her a recipient of the Outstanding Master’s Thesis or Paper Award. This award is granted annually to a student that presents the most outstanding thesis, or has produced impactful work likely to be published. ShuLan will be pursuing her doctoral degree in Raimondo Lab.

Congratulations to Kadhambari Rajendran for graduating with a Master’s degree!

Dr. Raimondo was a speaker at the Brown+Beyond: Advances in RNA Research panel discussion hosted in San Francisco on May 6, 2025 and in Seattle on May 8, 2025. Dr. Raimondo joined Prof. Juan Alfonzo and Brown President Christina Paxson, to discuss how RNA research is helping to understand cellular processes, discover disease mechanisms and develop new therapeutics.

Congratulations to ShuLan Holmes-Farley for successfully defending her Master’s thesis!

Congratulations to Connor Purcell and Kadhambari Rajendran for presenting a poster at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting hosted on Apr 25-30 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. The title of their poster was “Optimization of mRNA-6883 lipid nanoparticles for targeted CDK4/6 and HIF1α inhibition in colorectal and breast cancer cells”.