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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. 

Carney Lab PhD student Rachel Mizenko just received an NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) F31 fellowship to develop an extracellular vesicular drug delivery system to help treat multiple sclerosis. This exciting project was initiated by Rachel and in collaboration with Carney Lab and Aijun Wang's group at UC Davis Health (Wang Lab Website). 

The F31 fellowship is extremely competitive and represents a massive amount of effort by Rachel - way to go!! 

Our very own Hannah O'Toole was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 Chemical Biology Program fellowship for her work in sensing biomarkers for cancerous tumors through biophotonics technology. 

We are extremely proud of Hannah and all the hard work that went into this prestigious award!

Read the full story written on the BME site by Cristina Deptula here.

Congratulations to Marissa for successfully obtaining her Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering. She will be starting her PhD in Transformative Pharmaceutical Technologies at University College London! With a full scholarship over the next four years, she will be collaborating with talented individuals from all over the EU to develop next generation pharmaceuticals at the Center for Doctoral Training. We are so proud of Marissa and lucky to have spent a few years with her in Carney lab!