Recent News:
October 3 , 2007
Charlie Roth presented a seminar entitled "Engineering Intracellular Delivery of Oligonucleotides" at Hoffman LaRoche.
September 29 , 2007
We were well represented at this week's BMES Conference in Los Angeles (Holloywood), CA. Salaheldin Hamed, Ronn Friedlander , and Charlie Roth each presented posters detailing our recent research findings.
September 22 , 2007
Our paper "Quantitative Measurements and Rational Materials Design for Intracellular Delivery of Oligonucleotides", byCharles M. Roth, was published in Biotechnology Progress (2007; Epub Sept. 22).
September 21 , 2007
BME senior Ronn Friedlander has received funding from the Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates. This award will support Ronn's travel to the upcoming BMES Conference, where his abstract was accepted for presentation.
September 1 , 2007
Our paper "Effects of Retinoic Acid on Proliferation and Differentiation of HepG2 Cells", by Michelle Burley and Charles M. Roth, was published in Open Biotechnology Journal (2007; 1:47-51).
July 16, 2007
Sumati Sundaram defended her dissertation today, entitled "Interplay of Polymer and Oligonucleotide Properties in the Nature of Antisense Effects". Sumati is the first Ph.D. to graduate from the group. Congratulations, Sumati!
June 18 , 2007
Our paper "Interplay of polyethyleneimine molecular weight and oligonucleotide backbone chemistry in the dynamics of antisense activity", by Sumati Sundaram, Li Kim Lee, and Charles M. Roth, was published online in Nucleic Acids Research (2007; 35:4396-4408).
June 6 , 2007
Welcome to the newest member of our group! Dr. Vidya Iyer joins us as a postodoctoral associate. Vidya recently finished her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Iowa State and will be co-advised by Marianthi Ierapetritou.
May 17, 2007
Congratulations to our seniors, Mark Hwang and Clare Tang, who graduated with BS degrees in Biomedical Engineering, and to Jeffrey Ly, who graduated with an MS in Biomedical Engineering today. Clare is doing an industrial intership this summer and will return to Rutgers in Fall as part of her BS/MS program, Mark will be starting the MD/PhD program at U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Jeffrey will begin work at Merck. Best wishes in your future endeavors!
May 8 , 2007
Hong Yang successfully defended her thesis proposal entitled "Reaction and Pathway Analysis of Hepatic Metabolism."
April 18, 2007
Jeffrey Ly successfully defended his his MS paper entitled "Poly(propylacrylic acid) mediated delivery of antisense oligonucleotides ". Best of luck to Jeffrey, who will receive his MS this May and be joining Merck.
March 14 , 2007
Charlie Roth presented a seminar entitled "Molecular Design and Cellular Delivery of Oligonucleotides" in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at City College of New York.
February 22 , 2007
Salaheldin Hamed successfully defended his thesis proposal entitled "Correlating Gene Expression with Resistance to Chemotherapy in Glioma Cell Lines".
February 7 , 2007
Charlie Roth presented a seminar entitled "Molecular Design and Cellular Delivery of Oligonucleotides" at Pfizer Global Research and Development in St. Louis.
January 1, 2007
Our research group continues to grow! Juan Lagos has joined us as a part-time Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. When he's not with us, Juan holds down a full-time job at Schering-Plough.
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