Raimondo Research Lab

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”.

Congratulations to Joshua Acosta Gonzalez for being selected to participate in Brown’s 2025 Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) program. The competitive program provides graduate students with professional development opportunities and academic support to further enhance their scientific career.

Raimondo has been chosen as a member of the Early Career Board of ACS Applied Biomaterials. The journal publishes novel research covering all aspects of biomaterials including biosensing, biomedical and therapeutic applications. You can read Brown’s featured article here, and on social media here.