The Marble Center Announces the Winners of this Year’s Poster Symposium
On May 3, 2022, the MIT community as well as members the Industry Affiliate program at the Marble Center in Nanomedicine (IAMNano) participated in a poster symposium organized by the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine to discuss nano- and precision-based approaches for the early detection and treatment of a variety of diseases, including cancer. Eighteen research posters were selected for this event, representing twenty research investigators from various institutes and departments at MIT, the Broad Institute, Mass General Hospital, Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, the Ragon Institute, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, among many others.
We are grateful for our wonderful panel of judges who helped us select this year’s winners: Drs. Melissa Lokugamage (Alloy Therapeutics), Alessandro Amici (FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation), Richard Huang (Sanofi), Tahoura Samad (MIT), Jessica Miles (Cell Press), and Tarek Fadel (MIT). The winners of this year’s poster symposium are:
Núria Puigmal, PhD for her poster on “Dual-function microneedles for drug delivery and monitoring of anti-cancer immune responses in the tumor microenvironment.” Núria is a postdoctoral researcher at Dr. Natalie Artzi’s laboratory.
Allen Jiang for his poster on “Engineering dually-adjuvanted mRNA vaccines for SARS-CoV2.” Allen is a graduate researcher at the Anderson/Langer laboratories.
Parisa Yousefpour, PhD for her poster on “Temporally controlled RNA immunotherapeutics: the Convergence of synthetic biology and immunoengineering.” Parisa is a postdoctoral researcher at Dr. Darrell Irvine’s laboratory.
Qian Zhong, PhD and Edward Tan, PhD for their poster on “Inhalable point-of-care urinary diagnostic platform.” Qian is a research scientist and Edward is a postdoctoral researcher, both members of Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia’s laboratory.
Winners of the 2022 Marble Center Poster Symposium. From left to right: Dr. Edward Tan (Bhatia Lab), Allen Jiang (Anderson/Langer Labs), Dr. Núria Puigmal (Artzi Lab), and Dr. Parisa Yousefpour (Irvine Lab), pictured with Professor Sangeeta Bhatia.
