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Elizabeth Hale has received a prestigious T32 Pre-Doctoral Research Training Program Scholar Award from the UC Davis NIEHS training program "Advanced Training in Environmental Health Sciences" to study the health effects of airborne nanoplastics.

Link to the original article published by Matt Marcure can be found here.

Biomedical engineering alum Anna Kolesov, who graduated with a bachelor's in June, has received the 2024 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research from the University of California, Davis.

Rachel Mizenko successfully defended her thesis titled, "EV heterogeneity: an essential feature for intercellular communication in health and disease and an underutilized resource in the clinic."

Prof. Carney, along with lab members Rachel, Hannah, and Neona, attended the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) Annual 2024 meeting held in Melbourne, Australia. 

The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has provided over $3 million in support of a University of California, Davis, project to develop nanotechnology capable of diagnosing cancer from drops of saliva and other biofluid samples. 

J. Sebastian Gomez-Diaz, seated, and Randy Carney pose in Gomez-Diaz's Applied Micro/Nano Electromagnetics Research Laboratory. (Photo courtesy of Randy Carney)

Link to the original article published by Matt Marcure can be found here.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, want to even out the differences in size and composition of naturally derived extracellular vesicles, or EVs, to turn them into a scalable and reliable drug platform, not unlike industrially produced medication. 

Link to the original article published by Matt Marcure can be found here.

Extracellular vesicles, or EVs, are nanoparticles released by every known cell and relay important messages across the human body — but how they exactly function is not well understood. Professors at the University of California, Davis, seek to change that.

Link to the original article by Matt Murphy can be found here. 

Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Randy Carney has received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development, or NSF CAREER, Award.  

Carney Lab has graduated our very first PhD student - we are very proud of DR! Hanna Koster for this awesome achievement.

In her time in the group, Hanna measured out thousands (maybe millions) of Raman spectra of clinical samples and published her work in several high impact journals. As the lab's first student, she helped build and implement the entire lab infrastructure, served as de facto lab manager, safety manager, head of the party planning committee, door decorator extraordinaire, BESA president, and wore numerous other hats.

Randy was recently named as the recipient of the 2022 University of California’s Shu Chien Early Career Jury Award.

This annual UC-wide award is given to early career faculty who demonstrate outstanding scholarly achievement. It is awarded at the UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium held each summer and recognizes the winner of a lecturer competition.

Our esteemed Postdoc turned Project Scientist, Tatu Rojalin, has accepted a Senior Scientist in Biophysics position at Expansion Therapeutics in Florida! We held a nice party to celebrate Tatu's accomplishments in the group and wish him well for his adventure. Thanks for all the great work Tatu and best of luck in your new role!!

Our own Neona Lowe has received the prestigious T32 Pre-Doctoral Research Training Program Scholar Award (HL007013) from the UC Davis Lung Center. Neona is co-advised by Prof. Alyssa Panitch.