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April 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Congrats to undergraduate researcher Devon Mansfield<\/strong> who was recently selected to receive a 2026 UConn IDEA Grant<\/strong> to pursue his research ideas next academic year!\u00a0 \"\"<\/p>\n

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Congrats to our current Glastonbury High School Advanced Research Mentorship<\/strong> (ARM)\u00a0 research student, Reilly Cotter<\/strong> who is off to MIT next fall to study Biochemistry!<\/p>\n

March 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Congrats to undergraduate researcher Devon Mansfield<\/strong> in the group who was selected to receive a UConn Chemistry Department Summer Research fellowship<\/strong>! We are looking forward to having you in the lab this summer!\u00a0<\/p>\n

October 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

Congrats to Divya, Suman, Rachelle, Jenna and Isabel as well as our collaborators in the Szczepanek Lab<\/a> in the UConn Department of Pathobiology, Dr. Henry Smilowitz<\/a> at UConn Health Center, and our international collaborator Dr. Frederic Duconge<\/a> (CEA, Paris), on the newly accepted publication in ACS Nano<\/em><\/strong> titled “A Virus Inspired mRNA Delivery Vehicle Enabled by a Multilayered Nucleic Acid Nanocapsule<\/strong><\/a>,” which details an exciting new way to both deliver and target mRNA to cells, inspired by viral entry and nucleic acid delivery mechanisms. This has been a multi year multi lab collaboration that we are excited to share with the nucleic acid delivery community!<\/p>\n

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June 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n