Recent News

March 2022

Dr. Kara Spiller featured on Progress, Possibilities, and Potential show and podcast

Dr. Kara Spiller’s research featured on NPR’s Academic Minute

Februrary 2022

Dr. Kara Spiller, PhD candidate Olivia Ngo, and alumna Dr. Pamela Graney present at the AAAS meeting, “Science without Borders: Planning your Research Experience Abroad.”

January 2022

Chris is selected as a member of the Early Career Editorial Advisory Board for ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering.

PhD student Shreya Soni was selected as a finalist for the Student E-Poster Competition at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting for her work entitled The Identification and Targeted Delivery of Macrophage-Polarizing Drugs for Tissue Injury.

December 2021

Dr. Stephanie Matt (post-doc in Gaskill lab) receives the Cotswold Fellowship

October 2021

Breana Channer (MD/PhD student in Gaskill lab) receives 3rd place in Discovery Day poster competition

September 2021

Emily Nickoloff-Bybel (Ph.D. student in Gaskill lab) graduates and defends her thesis “The Impact of Dopamine Receptor Signaling on Myeloid Cell Function: Implications for the Pathogenesis of NeuroHIV

June 2021

Hannah Johnson (undergraduate in Gaskill lab) graduates and presents her senior thesis “3D high-content imaging and analysis of dopamine mediated increases in NF-κB translocation in primary human macrophages

June 2021

Dr. Peter J. Gaskill is promoted to Associate Professor

April 2021

Dr. Chris B. Rodell Received an Individual Biomedical Research Award from the Hartwell Foundation to develop a geometrically tunable blood shunt for use in pediatric heart reconstruction surgeries.