🟣 There is lots of exciting news to report for the Villapol lab in 2021: new projects, funding, publications, team members, and even a new lab location!
🏆 Notably, we have established a collaboration and obtained a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) with the Department of Bioengineering at Rice University to study the first biological responders to brain injury!
🏆 We have also secured two new grants to study Alzheimer’s disease in collaboration with the Houston Methodist Department of Nanomedicine and with Baylor College of Medicine.
🏆 Finally, our projects have led to the study of Nanomedicine for drug delivery into brain injury thanks to a Research Award obtained from Mission Connect (TIRR Foundation).
🏆 Overall, we have established a very powerful line of research that combines nanomedicine and neuroscience. For this effort, our publication on nanoparticles was awarded for the Houston Methodist Academic Institute with the Award 🥇 for Excellence in Peer-Reviewed Publication.
In large part, this success is thanks to our fabulous team:
👩🔬 Morgan Holcomb (Lab manager),
👩🔬 Dr. Sirena Soriano (Postdoctoral researcher)
👩🔬 Hannah Flinn (Research Assistant)
🧪 Also, we have been fortunate to have in our lab amazing undergraduate students from Texas A&M University, University of Houston, and Rice University:
🥇 Kristen Curry,
🥇 Maria Wang,
🥇 Serena Wang,
🥇 Pranjal Sheth,
🥇 Elsbeth Chow,
🥇 Eric Wang,
🥇 Donovan Butler.
🙏 Thanks to their hard work and effort, we have published thirteen scientific articles and presented our work at sixteen conferences and congresses this year alone!