Our Lab News
Effects of polycationic drug carriers on the electromechanical and swelling properties of cartilage published in Biophysical Journal📄
Congratulations to Matt, Armin, and Sanjana on this paper published by Biophysical Journal! We demonstrated that charge-based drug delivery using polycationic peptide affects the electromechanical properties of cartilage. You can read the paper [HERE]
Prof. Bajpayee receives the 2022 Soren Buus Outstanding Research Award!🏅
Prof. Bajpayee receives the 2022 Soren Buus Outstanding Research Award! This Award recognizes and rewards an outstanding researcher for accomplishments in advancing the frontiers of knowledge. The awardees illustrate the important role that research plays in...
Our latest publication in Cartilage using multi-arm avidin to mediate sustained delivery of Kartogenin📄
Congratulations to Tengfei, Irfhan, and Armin on their latest publications in Cartilage! In this paper, we designed cartilage targeting and homing formulations for the delivery of a pro-anabolic OA drug, KGN by using a branched cationic protein-based carrier,...
Congrats to Tim for getting First Place at the College of Engineering PhD Research Expo for his poster on electrically charged drugs for cartilage targeting!🏅
Congratulations to Dr. Tengfei He on successfully defending his dissertation. The snowstorm cannot stop his forward pace. Good luck to the next phase of life.🎓
Dr. Tengfei He has succeeded in defending his dissertation titled ''Design of cationic multi-arm Avidin nano-construct for intra-cartilage delivery of small molecule osteoarthritis drugs." Congratulations!
Congratulations to our undergraduate student Cameron Young on being awarded the Churchill Scholarship!🏅
Our undergraduate student Cameron Young is featured in NGN for his upcoming work in England funded by Churchill Scholarship. You can read it [HERE]
Congratulations to Dr. Armin Vedadghavami on successfully defending his dissertation. Great to see him achieve this milestone today! Good luck for the next phase.🎓
Please congratulate Dr. Armin Vedadghavami for his successful dissertation defense titled "Electro-diffusive Transport of Cationic Peptide Carriers in Negatively Charged Joint Environment for Applications in Targeted Drug Delivery."
Congratulations to our graduating students Armin Vedadghavami and Chenzhen Zhang on impressive talk, Tengfei He and Timothy Boyer on great poster presentations at the ORS 2022
Chenzhen, Tengfei, Armin and Tim presented the ongoing research in our lab at the Orthopedic Research Society 2022 conference!
Prof. Bajpayee awarded NSF CAREER Grant for drug delivery biomaterials
Congratulations to Dr. Bajpayee for being awarded a $630,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant to investigate how to improve drug delivery in dense, avascular human tissues like joints, cartilage, and tendons. Read more [HERE]