Chilkoti Group News and Announcements:
November 9th 2009: Congrats to Andrew, Mingnan, Jonathan, Wenge, Andy, and Tosh for their recent paper published in Nature Materials! See a press release on the paper here.
October 6th 2009: The Chilkoti Group bids farewell to Tak, who recently returned to Japan after visiting our group. We wish him luck in the future! Also, congratulations to Mingnan who recently won the Citizen Advisory Council Poster Award at the 2009 Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center Annual Meeting. He presented a poster on his drug delivery work done in collaboration with Andrew, Andy, Wenge, and Jonathan.
August 26th 2009: Congrats to Weiping and company for their recent publication in PNAS. Science Daily has picked up on the potential impact these protein-polymer conjugates can have on increasing drug efficacy in vivo with their recent research highlight. See their article here and also browse on over to the original publication over at PNAS.
June 23rd 2009:
Congratulations to Felipe Garcia Quiroz for winning the
Medtronic Foundation Fellowship!
May 29th 2009:
Chilkoti Group Annual Summer Picnic!
The group gathered in the Duke
Forest to have their 2nd annual summer picnic
and 2nd Annual Chilkoti Pro Summer League Volleyball Championship.
The weather was near perfect; lots of foods were consumed;
and the vball competition was fierce. Check the pics
from the event. Huge thanks to Vicky and
Amy for organizing, setting up, and for taking pics!
Apr 15th 2009:
Open Positions! Due
to the recent award of research grants, the Chilkoti group
seeks 1 or 2 doctoral students to work on a range of projects
that span protein-polymer conjugates for drug delivery,
the design of new injectable self-gelling biopolymer systems
for local therapy, and the design of new plasmonic biosensors.
We seek highly motivated self-starters with a good academic
record and GRE scores, who have a demonstrated record of
and aptitude for research and are extroverted enough to
work well in a large and diverse group of individuals. If
you are one of these people, and are still looking for a
graduate program for Fall 2009 or Spring 2010, please contact
Prof. Chilkoti via e-mail with a copy of your resume, which
should contain your (1) GPA, (2) GRE scores, (3) a list
of papers, posters or abstracts, and (4) names and contact
information of three references.
Oct 13 2008:
Congratulations to Ryan Hill for winning 2nd Prize in the
poster competition at the Fitzpatrick
Institute for Photonics 2008
Annual Meeting!
Oct 5 2008:
The Chilkoti Group gathered at Tosh's house for Andrew's
farewell party. He will be leaving us soon to begin
work as an Assistant
Professor at the University
of Southern California School
of Pharmacy! We'd all like to congratulate
Andrew on his new job and wish him best of luck with his
research. Check out pictures
from the event (Courtesy of Tak).
Oct 3 2008:
The Chilkoti Group would like to cordially welcome visiting
professor, Takeshi Mori, who has come from Japan to rock
out with us and study ELP! See his profile on our
visitors
page. Welcome to Durham, Tak!
Sept 4 2008:
Congratulations to Andy Simnick who is the recipient of
the BMES
2008 Graduate
Research Award!
Sept 2 2008:
Congratulations to Sarah Reagan Mac Ewan who recently won
the Howard Clark Fellowship from our very own Department
of Biomedical Engineering as part of an inaugural Named
Fellowship Competition! Congrats to Wafa Hassouneh
as well; she received Honorable Mention!
July 17 2008:
The Chilkoti Group rested all their pipettors, shut down
all their centrifuges, and cancelled all plasmon propagation
today in favor of gathering at Little
River Park (just north of tropical Durham,
NC) for a summer picnic! Given the relatively
dry heat, all sorts of summer fun was had; frisbees, volleyball,
badminton, soccer, nature walking, sun burning, sweating,
hydrating, eating, etc. Multiple photographers were
on hand to document the ongoings, however, no one managed
to capture evidence of the small fire we started!
We did, however, capture a particularly
fierce volleyball sequence (be sure to click
over to the play by play commentary as well) during our
professional volleyball tournament. Also, check out
another gallery with all
sorts of pictures
from the event. Thanks to Amy and Vicky
for making this happen!
Feb
23 2008: Congratulations to Dan and Nikki
Callahan who, as of 1:04am, became the proud parents of
baby Abigail Marie Callahan! Everyone appears to be
in great health, and the newest addition to the Callahan
family weighed in at 7 lb 15 oz (20 inches long) with dark
brown hair and dark blue eyes.
Feb 22 2008:
Duke just launched a new
website that was named by none other than our
own Michelle Nunalee!
Feb 20 2008:
Trine, Andrew, and Melissa were caught doing experiments
in lab by the News & Observer! They were featured
in an article
written about the NC
Biotechnology Center.
Jan 26 2008:
The Chilkoti Group gathered for Dong Woo Send-Off party!
Pictorial evidence is presented here.
Dong Woo is currently on his way to Michigan (he's in a
uhaul as the webmaster types) to work with the Lahann
Lab! We wish him luck!
Fall/Winter 2007/2008:
Chilkoti Group has initiated project website revamp!
August 2007:
Congratulations to Dong Woo for successfully defending his
dissertation!
