Magnetic Formulations & Bionanotechnology Lab

Our lab focuses on developing magnetic field responsive nanoplatforms and nanoconstructs via innovative miniaturization strategies and uses wet-chemistry approaches to endow them with colloidal stability in relevant physiological media. We assess their cytotoxicity in vitro and in vivo and their potential as therapeutic agents in magneto-mechanical actuation to treat cancer, and as contrast agents in MRI to diagnose cancer. Our multidisciplinary approach involves a wide range of expertise from biophysics, materials science, wet chemistry and biomagnetism to health sciences and nanomedicine.

Funding

ONQPI
National Maglab
National High Magnetic Field Lab
ARL
UNC Lineberger
ORAU
Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network
  • Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN)
  • National High Magnetic Field Lab, AMRIS User Facility Grant (2018-2021)
  • Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2020)
  • National Science Foundation Innovation Corps, NC State I-Corps Site Award (2020)
  • East Carolina University, Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Award (2020)
  • East Carolina University, THCAS Faculty Conference Award (2020)
  • UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Pilot Grant Program (2018-2019)
  • US Army Research Lab, Army Research Office Grant (2017)
  • Ohio University, Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute Grant (2017)
  • National High Magnetic Field Lab, AMRIS User Facility Grant (2014-2017)
  • National High Magnetic Field Lab, AMRIS Visiting Scholar Grant (2016)
  • North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC, 2023)