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
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- 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)