Professor Rege presented an invited seminar titled, “Role of Cancer Cell Phenotype in the Differential Intracellular Trafficking of Nanoparticles” at the Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference in Vancouver , WA .

Professor Rege was awarded a three-year $240,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a proposal titled, “Biocompatible Metal (Core)-Layered Double Hydroxide (Shell) Nanoparticles for siRNA Delivery”. Professor Sandwip Dey ( School of Materials , ASU) is a co-PI on the proposal.

Professor Rege and Professor Arul Jayaraman (Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University) were awarded a two year $374,600 R21 Award by the National Cancer Institute / National Institutes of Health for their proposal titled, “Microfluidics-Based Platform for Screening Combinatorial Drug Treatments”.

Dr. Rebecca Bullard joined the lab as a postdoctoral research fellow. Rebecca joins us from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston , SC. Welcome aboard!

Christine Parsons, Dana Matthews, David Kay, Jennifer Gamboa, Krasimira Mikhova, and Mark Alavi were all awarded Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI) Awards. Congratulations!

Professor Rege and Professor Sandwip Dey (School of Materials and Department of Electrical Engineering at ASU) were awarded a two year, $360,940 R21 award by the National Cancer Institute / National Institutes of Health for their proposal titled, “Targeted Ceramic Nanovectors for Simultaneous Therapy and Imaging of Cancer"

Dana Matthews was awarded funding from the Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI) program.

Professor Rege awarded a one year, $30,000 award from the Wendy Will Case Cancer Fund for a proposal titled “A Novel High-Throughput Platform for the Discovery of Combination Drug Treatments for Cancer Therapy”