Thomas Lab - Institute for Bioengineering & Biosciences

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April 1, 2024	Our NHLBI-funded R01 starts!
March 1, 2024	Dr. Thomas wins the 2023 Outstanding Advisor Award from the Bioengineering Graduate Program! Thank you lab and thank you BioE!
February 11-16, 2024	Sam, Abir, and Alisyn present at and Dr. Thomas co-chairs the Immunoengineering Gordon Research Conference in Lucca, Italy.
February 5, 2024	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at the University of Zurich Department of Chemistry.
February 1, 2024	Dr. Kiyoon Min joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome Kiyoon!
January 30, 2024	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at the AGORA building in Lausanne that hosts faculty and trainees of ISREC, EPFL, UNIL, and the Ludwig Cancer Institute.
January 26, 2024	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the LE&RN Symposium at Stanford University.
January 2, 2024	Dr. Jaehoon Kim joins the lab as a research engineer. Welcome Jaehoon!
September 28, 2023	Alisyn is selected as a NIH ImmunoEngineering trainee. Congrats!
September 12, 2023	Maya Levitan, a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Maya!
September 11, 2023	Tae Hee Yoon, a Bioengineering Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Tae Hee!
September 1, 2023	The lab is awarded a NSF-NCI SPARK award!
August 6, 2023	Kyoko Sawada, a Nakatani Fellow, joins the lab. Welcome Kyoko!
June 13, 2023	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the Cancer Nanotechnology Gordon Research Conference in Waterville Valley, NH.
May 22, 2023	Jonathan Royal, an undergraduate student in Physics, joins the lab as an NSF REU SURE student. Welcome Jonathan!
May 14, 2023	Dr. Thomas co-chairs and presents at the Immunoengineering Immunity and Immunotherapy Major Symposium at IMMUNOLOGY2023 organized by the American Association of Immunologists.
May 11, 2023	The lab goes bowling!
April 25, 2023	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at The Johns Hopkins University Immunology Forum in Baltimore, MD.
April 24, 2023	The lab is awarded support from Georgia CORE!
April 14, 2023	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at AACR 2023 in Orlando, FL.
March 29, 2023	Abir is awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
March 28, 2023	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at the NIH's BME SIG.
March 27, 2023	Dr. Thomas is inducted as a Fellow into the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in Arlington, VA.
March 8, 2023	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at the University of Michigan's College of Pharmacy in Ann Arbor, MI.
March 6, 2023	The lab is awarded support from the Donaldson Charitable Trust Research Synergy Fund!
March 2, 2023	Dr. Thomas gives an invited Featured talk at the Southeastern Regional Clinical & Translational Science Conference in Pine Mountain, GA.
February 1, 2023	Pranshu Rajurkar, a M.S. student in Biomedical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Pranshu!
December 2, 2022	Dr. Thomas gives an invited keynote talk at EPFL's Institute of Bioengineering Bioengineering Day in Epilanges, Swizerland.
November 15, 2022	Levi is granted a President's Undergraduate Research Award!
November 11, 2022	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at the University of Oklahoma's School of Biomedical Engineering.
November 11, 2022	Alisyn Bourque, a Bioengineering Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Alisyn!
September 21, 2022	Dr. Thomas gives a research talk in the Glenn Breast Team Translational Science Meeting at Emory University.
September 21, 2022	Reiko presents her work at the Nakatani Research and International Experience for Students Fellowship Program Symposium at Georgia Tech.
September 16, 2022	Belinda, Sam and Alex present their work at the Society for Biomaterials Southeastern Biomaterials Day at Georgia Tech.
September 5, 2022	Dr. Thomas gives the keynote talk for her Award for Young Investigator from Elsevier's Biomaterials at the European Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting in Bordeaux, France.
September 2, 2022	Tanmay Khare, a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Tanmay!
August 22, 2022	Levi Bloch, an undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering, and Maleena Shah and Aanya Sawhney, undergraduate students in Biomedical Engineering, join the lab. Welcome Alex, Maleena and Aanya!
August 10, 2022	Reiko Sakurai, a Nakatani Fellow, joins the lab. Welcome Reiko!
August 6, 2022	Dr. Thomas receives the Elsevier Biomaterials Award for Young Investigator!
July 28, 2022	Chika wins a 2nd place for best presentation at the NSF SURE Symposium. Congrats!
July 11, 2022	Camila presents her work at the ImmunoEngineering GRC in Ventura, CA.
July 10, 2022	The inaugural ImmunoEngineering Gordon Research Conference in Ventura, CA starts!
July 1, 2022	The lab is awarded support from Biolocity!
June 15, 2022	Paul successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Archer!
June 13, 2022	Camila successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Camargo!
June 8, 2022	Dr. Thomas's team is selected to participate in the Biolocity program!
May 25, 2022	Chikamnele Nkwocha, an undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering, joins the lab as an NSF REU SURE student. Welcome Chika!
May 23, 2022	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the 13th International Symposium on Polymer Therapeutics in Valencia, Spain.
May 22, 2022	Alexander Shih, an undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Alex!
May 19, 2022	Maggie successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Manspeaker!
April 27, 2022	Jihoon and Maggie present their work at the Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
April 7, 2022	Alex is awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Congrats!
March 2, 2022	Meghan's recent paper in Advanced Materials is featured on the Georgia Tech landing page, gatech.edu, and the story is picked up by Technology.org, ScienceMagazine, Bioengineer.org, AAAS's EurekAlert!, Newswise, and The Medical News!
January 23, 2022	Alex is selected as a NIH ImmunoEngineering trainee. Congrats!
January 4, 2022	Dr. Yunus Alapan joins the lab as a research engineer. Welcome Yunus!
December 14, 2021	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics Conference in San Diego, CA.
December 8, 2021	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the Jubilee 10th Annual Symposium of the PENN Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine on "Nanomedicine and the immune system: conflict avoidance and synergy by design" hosted by the University of Pennsylvania.
November 30, 2021	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar "at" the University of Pittsburg School of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
November 17, 2021	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the Nature Conference on "Bio-inspired Nanomaterials" at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea.
November 12, 2021	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the "Centers of Excellence Lymphatic Summit 2021: The Continuum from Evolving Research to State-of-the-Art Lymphatic Management" Symposium hosted by Stanford University and the Lymphatic Education and Research Network.
November 8, 2021	Dr. Thomas gives a plenary talk in the "Leaders in Biomaterials" Session part of the Materials Engineering & Science Division at the American Institute of Chemical Engineering Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.
October 8, 2021	Paul's paper is selected for the Best Paper Award for the Drug Delivery and Translational Research Special Issue on "Transport Barriers to Immunotherapy"! Congrats!
September 23, 2021	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar "at" the University of Pennsylvania's Bioengineering Department.
September 13, 2021	Belinda Joseph, a Biomedical Engineering PhD student, joins the lab! Welcome Belinda!
September 8, 2021	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar "at" The Johns Hopkins University's Materials Science and Engineering Department.
August 15, 2021	Abir Muhuri, a Bioengineering PhD student in Mechanical Engineering, joins the lab! Welcome Abir!
August 12, 2021	Dr. Thomas wins the Faculty Research Award from the Woodruff School.
July 15, 2021	Sam is selected as a NIH Biotechnology Cell and Tissue Engineering trainee. Congrats!
June 24, 2021	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the University of Chicago's 2021 ImmunoEngineering Innovation Center Symposium.
June 4, 2021	Lauren presents her work at the virtual Lymphatic Forum.
May 17, 2021	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at the Harvard i3 Center Symposium on Engineering Cancer Immunotherapy.
April 21, 2021	Meghan presents her work at the Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting.
April 16, 2021	Lauren successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Sestito!
April 8, 2021	Meghan wins a STAR award from the Society for Biomaterials! Congrats!
April 1, 2021	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar "at" University of Texas at Austin's Biomedical Engineering Department.
March 31, 2021	Asheley successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Chapman!
March 30, 2021	Meghan successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Dr. O'Melia!
February 1, 2021	Claire McClain, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, joins the lab! Welcome Claire!
January 27, 2021	Dr. Thomas gives a research talk in the Melanoma Research Meeting at Emory University.
December 1, 2020	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk and is a panelist in the "Immunoengineering for Improving Vaccines and Cancer Immunotherapies" discussion as part of the Biomaterials for Studying and Controlling the Immune System Symposium at the virtual fall meeting of the Materials Research Society.
November 17, 2020	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar "at" Rice University's Bioengineering Department.
November 12, 2020	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar "at" Purdue University's Cancer Center.
November 10, 2020	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk for the Controlled Release Society's Immunoengineering Focus group.
September 17, 2020	Alex Heiler, a Bioengineering PhD student in Chemical Engineering, joins the lab! Welcome Alex!
September 11, 2020	Sam Lucas, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, joins the lab! Welcome Sam!
June 10, 2020	Nature Nanotechnology publishes a News & Views article entitled "Targeting immune cells within lymph nodes" featuring our recent publication in Nature Nanotechnology!
June 5, 2020	David successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Francis!
April 29, 2020	Camila wins Best Abstract Award for the Annual BioE Day!
April 14, 2020	Katie successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Birmingham!
April 1, 2020	Our second NCI-funded R01 starts!
March 31, 2020	Isaac and Alexa are awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mentions. Congrats!
March 1-6, 2020	Meghan presents her work at the Lymphatic Gordon Conference in Ventura, CA.
January 8, 2020	Lauren H. is named a Regeneron STS Top 300 Scholar!
January 7, 2020	Ricky Patel, an undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Ricky!
December 13, 2019	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics Conference in San Diego, CA.
October 29, 2019	Sam is granted a President's Undergraduate Research Award!
October 16, 2019	Dr. Thomas gives an invited keynote talk at the Drexel University Immune Modulation and Engineering Symposium in Philadelphia, PA.
October 2, 2019	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at the Kansas State University Department of Chemical Engineering in Manhattan, KS.
August 19, 2019	Luke Kolodzey and Lynelle Oygenblik, undergraduate students in Biomedical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Luka and Lynelle!
July 31, 2019	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the 2019 Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering GRC in Castelldefels, Spain.
July 10, 2019	Hajime Minoguchi, an undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Hajime!
July 1, 2019	Dr. Margaret Fettis joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome Maggie!
July 1, 2019	Dr. Thomas is named a Woodruff Professor.
January 10, 2019	Megha Khosal, an undergraduate student in Chemical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Megha!
June 5, 2019	The lab goes bowling!
June 1, 2019	Lauren presents a NanoTalk at the 2019 NAVBO Lymphatic Forum in Austin, TX.
June 1, 2019	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the 2019 NAVBO Lymphatic Forum in Austin, TX.
May 29, 2019	Isaac is selected as a NIH Biotechnology Cell and Tissue Engineering trainee. Congrats!
May 9, 2019	Dr. Thomas gives a talk at BioE Day for her Outstanding Advisor Award. Thanks again to the group and BioE for your kindness!
May 6, 2019	Dr. Thomas gives a talk at the 2019 Synthims Conference she co-organized in Ascona, Ticino in Switzerland.
May 3, 2019	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at the Ludwig Cancer Institute in Lausanne, VD in Switzerland.
May 2, 2019	Lauren is awarded a travel award from the Lymphatic Education & Research Network (LE&RN) to attend the 2019 NAVBO Lymphatic Forum in Austin, TX!
April 26, 2019	Dr. Thomas presents at the Winship Cancer Biology Retreat.
April 9, 2019	Maggie is awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Congrats!
April 6, 2019	David presents at the Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA.
April 1, 2019	Lauren H. won Best in Biomedical Engineering, One of the Top In Vitro Biology Projects, First Honors, Best Usage of Microscopy, AND a cash prize this weekend at GSEF - the Science/Engineering Fair for all of Georgia! HUGE congrats Lauren H.!!!!
March 30, 2019	Dr. Thomas presents an invited talk at the American Association Cancer Research Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
March 20-23, 2019	Dr. Thomas co-chairs the Regenerative Medicine Workshop in Charleston, SC.
March 8, 2019	Dr. Thomas wins the 2018 Outstanding Advisor Award from the Bioengineering Graduate Program! Thank you lab and thank you BioE!
March 8, 2019	Alex wins the 2018 Outstanding Thesis Award for the Bioengineering Graduate Program! Congrats Alex!
February 11, 2019	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the Physical Science in Oncology Gordon Research Conference in Galveston, TX.
January 10, 2019	Sam Bordy, an undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Sam!
December 13, 2018	Meghan is recognized with the Petit Institute Trainee Award for Service!
November 28, 2018	Dr. Thomas gives a presentation and poster at the NCI IMAT Annual Investigators Meeting in Rockville, MD.
November 9, 2018	Lauren is awarded an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship!
November 9, 2018	Dr. Thomas is an invited speaker at the 8th Bi-annual University of Virginia Biotechnology Training Program Symposium, “Herding cats: Convincing your Immune system to work for you,” at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA.
November 8, 2018	Dr. Thomas is an invited panelist at the Meet-the-Expert Lunch at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
October 25, 2018	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at Duke University in Durham, NC.
October 18, 2018	Lauren H. wins Best High School Poster Award at the BMES Annual Meeting!
October 18-20, 2018	Meghan, Camila, and Lauren give talks at the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
October 18, 2018	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
September 27, 2018	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the Society for Biological Engineering's 3rd Annual Translational Medicine and Bioengineering Meeting in Boston, MA.
September 25, 2018	Dr. Thomas participates and presents at the Physical Science in Oncology Annual Investigators Meeting in Bethesda, MD.
September 14, 2018	Alexa Avecilla, a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering, joins the lab! Welcome Alexa!
September 14, 2018	Isaac Robinson, a Bioengineering PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering, joins the lab! Welcome Isaac!
September 4-7, 2018	Dr. Thomas is an invited participant for the 2018 Frontiers in Engineering National Academy of Engineering Symposium at MIT Lincoln Labs in Lexington, MA.
August 12, 2018	David presents at the Drug Carriers in Medicine and Biology GRS and GRC in Stowe, VT.
July 26, 2018	David R.A. wins 1st place for his REU SURE research presentation!
July 24, 2018	Dr. Thomas gives a talk at the Duke Training in Progress course.
May 30, 2018	Lauren Hester, a Project ENGAGES trainee, joins the lab! Welcome Lauren!
May 22, 2018	David Reyes Aguilar, an undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering from UMBC, joins the lab as a NSF REU SURE student! Welcome David!
May 7, 2018	Alex successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Schudel!
April 19, 2018	Dr. Thomas gives Grand Rounds at Emory University Dermatology.
April 17, 2018	Joselyne presents her research project at the Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.
April 17, 2018	Veena is awarded Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher in the School of Biomedical Engineering. Congrats!
April 16, 2018	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at the University of Minnesota.
April 13, 2018	Dr. Thomas gives the Young Investigator Award Plenary talk at the 2018 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting in Atlanta!
April 12, 2018	Alex is awarded best session talk from the Drug Delivery SIG at the 2018 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting in Atlanta!
April 12, 2018	Alex and David present three talks at the 2018 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting in Atlanta.
April 11, 2018	Dr. Thomas receives the Young Investigator Award from the 2018 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting in Atlanta! Alex also receives a STAR award from the Drug Delivery and ImmuneEngineering SIGS! Congrats and go Thomas lab!!!
April 5-6, 2018	Dr. Thomas chairs and presents at the Immune Modulatory Materials: From Design to Translational Applications Symposium at the 2018 MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix that she co-organized.
April 3, 2018	Camila is awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and Lauren is awarded an Honorable Mention. Congrats!
February 17, 2018	Dr. Thomas is honored as a Professor of Excellence at the Yellow Jackets game against Virginia Tech! Thanks to Georgia Power for sponsoring the award!
February 9, 2018	Alex is awarded a STAR award from the Society for Biomaterials!
December 13, 2017	Erin successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Edwards!
December 1, 2017	Dr. Jihoon Kim joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome Jihoon!
November 14, 2017	Dr. Thomas is awarded the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Biomaterials!
November 1, 2017	Alex and David present at the 2017 AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis.
October 28, 2017	Katie attends the Society for Women Engineering meeting in Austin with GT's Women in Engineering.
October 28, 2017	Lauren leads lab tours for Buzz on Biotech.
October 16, 2017	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the MIT/Koch Immune Engineering Symposium.
October 14, 2017	Erin presents at the 2017 BMES Annual Meeting in Phoenix.
October 12, 2017	The lab is awarded a Phase 1b grant from the Georgia Research Alliance to develop a nitric oxide delivery technology!
October 9, 2017	The lab is awarded a grant from Georgia CORE and It's the Journey!
September 26, 2017	David is selected to be part of the inaugural class of NIH ImmunoEngineering trainees. Congrats!
September 23, 2017	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the University of Michigan's NanoDDS Symposium.
September 13, 2017	Paul Archer, a Bioengineering Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Paul!
September 13, 2017	Maggie Manspeaker, a Bioengineering Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Maggie!
July 25, 2017	Komen publishes a "Behind the Science" feature on Dr. Thomas and her group's Komen-funded project entitled Engineering a Cure.
June 9, 2017	Dr. Thomas presents at the North American Vascular Biology Organization Lymphatic Forum in Chicago, IL.
June 9, 2017	Joselyne is granted a President's Undergraduate Research Award!
May 19, 2017	Dr. Thomas presents at the Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Center Retreat at UGA in Athens, GA.
May 5, 2017	Nate successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Rohner!
May 5, 2017	The Thomas lab is awarded a pilot award through the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory!
May 2, 2017	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at Cornell University.
May 1, 2017	Sudeshna Goswami, Ph.D. joins the lab. Welcome Sudeshna!
April 27, 2017	Meghan is selected as a NIH Biotechnology Cell and Tissue Engineering trainee. Congrats!
April 20, 2017	Dr. Thomas give an invited presentation as part of the Symposium on Materials In Immunology—From Fundamental Material Design To Translational Applications at the 2017 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in Phoenix.
April 6, 2017	David presents at the 2017 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting in Minneapolis.
April 1, 2017	Our NCI-funded Physical Science in Oncology U01 starts!
March 27, 2017	Jared Beyersdorf, a M.D./Ph.D. student, joins the lab. Welcome Jared!
March 9, 2017	Dr. Thomas is honored with the CTL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award!
March 2, 2017	Dr. Thomas and David present at the 2017 Regenerative Medicine Conference at Hilton Head.
November 12, 2016	Dr. Thomas gives a talk at AIChE's Society for Bioengineering Symposium on Bioengineering and Translational Medicine in San Francisco.
October 17, 2016	Pumpkin carving!
October 6, 2016	Dr. Thomas gives two invited talks at the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Minneapolis.
September 30, 2016	Dr. Thomas talks about breast cancer research and awareness to the students at Holy Innocents Episcopal High School.
September 17, 2016	Camila Carmargo, a Bioengineering Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Camila!
September 14, 2016	Meghan O'Melia, a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Meghan!
September 13, 2016	Katherine Birmingham, a Bioengineering Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Katie!
September 6, 2016	Lauren Sestito, a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering supported by the NIH Biomaterials training grant, joins the lab. Welcome Lauren!
July 28, 2016	The lab is awarded a Phase 1a grant from the Georgia Research Alliance to develop a nitric oxide delivery technology!
July 1, 2016	Our NCI-funded R01 starts!
June 10, 2016	Dr. Thomas gives a talk at the Glenn Family Breast Center Retreat at Emory University.
May 20, 2016	Alex presents at the World Biomaterials Congress in Montreal.
May 6, 2016	Alex presents at the ImmunoEngineering Seminar Series.
April 25, 2016	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar as part of the Emory University Cardiovascular Biology Seminar Series.
April 22, 2016	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at University of Maryland Department of Bioengineering.
April 1, 2016	Erin presents at the ImmunoEngineering Seminar Series.
March 29, 2016	The Thomas lab is awarded a collaborative IMAT R21 with the Garcia lab by the National Cancer Institute!
March 16, 2016	Dr. Thomas is awarded a Department of Defense Career Development Award from the Peer Reviewed Medical Cancer Research Program!
March 2, 2016	Dr. Thomas is named an Associate Scientific Advisor for Science Translational Medicine!
February 1, 2016	Nate's Journal of Controlled Release manuscript is featured in the issue's Cover Story!
November 1, 2015	The Thomas lab's Komen research grant is featured in Atlanta Intown Paper’s Health and Wellness Briefs.
October 19, 2015	WSB-TV Atlanta spotlights the Thomas Lab!
October 7-10, 2015	Erin, Nate, Alex, and Veena present at the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL.
September 28, 2015	The Atlanta Journal Constitution spotlights the Thomas Lab award from the Komen Foundation!
September 15, 2015	David Francis, a Bioengineering Ph.D. candidate in Chemical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome David!
July 28, 2015	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.
June 3, 2015	The Thomas lab is awarded a 2015 Pediatric Research Center Seed Grant through the Center for Pediatric Nanomedicine and the Cystic Fibrosis and Airway Diseases Pediatric Center with Drs. Lam and Giddens! Congrats!
June 3, 2015	The Thomas lab is awarded a 2015 Pediatric Research Center Seed Grant through the Center for Pediatric Nanomedicine in collaboration with Dr. Tao and the Schinazi group at Emory! Congrats!
May 19, 2015	Erin is selected as a NIH Biotechnology Cell and Tissue Engineering trainee. Congrats!
May 14, 2015	Dr. Thomas presents at the 2015 Regenerative Medicine Conference at Hilton Head.
April 30, 2015	Erin wins the Best Poster Award at the 2nd Annual BioE Day!
April 15-18, 2015	Nate, Alex, and Mike present at the Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC.
April 8, 2015	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at Duke University.
March 31, 2015	Dr. Thomas is awarded a three year Career Catalyst Research Grant from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Research Foundation!
March 31, 2015	Mike is awarded Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
March 24, 2015	The laboratory is awarded funding from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program for undergraduate research over the summer term. Congrats!
March 17, 2015	Nate is awarded Honorable Mention for the Society for Biomaterials STAR Award.
December 16, 2014	Alex is awarded an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship!
December 11, 2014	Dr. Thomas is awarded the Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience 2014 Pre-Tenure Faculty "Above and Beyond" Award!
October 31, 2014	Veena is accepted into the 2015 Class of Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars!
October 31, 2014	Erin Hannen, a Bioengineering Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Erin!
October 24, 2014	Pumpkin carving!
October 10, 2014	Nate and Alex present at the Georgia Tech Biomaterials Day.
October 6, 2014	The Thomas lab is awarded a 2014 Georgia Partners in Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Seed Grant in collaboration with Dr. Copland, Laboratory Director of the Emory Personalized Immunotherapy Center (EPIC)!
September 9, 2014	Dr. Thomas wins Best Poster Award at the 2014 Frontiers in Bioengineering Symposium at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign!
September 2, 2014	Monica McNerney, a Bioengineering Ph.D. candidate in Chemical Engineering supported by the NIH Biomaterials training grant, joins the lab. Welcome Monica!
August 18, 2014	Raquel, a visiting Ph.D. student from the Biomaterials Group at the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology in Madrid, and Patrick, a B.S.M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering, join the lab. Welcome Raquel and Patrick!
August 10, 2014	Michael Bellavia, a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering supported by the NIH Biomaterials training grant, joins the lab. Welcome Mike!
August 1, 2014	Jaeho successfully completes his M.S. thesis in Mechanical Engineering. Congrats!
July 23, 2014	The Thomas lab is awarded a 2014 Petit Seed Grant in collaboration with the Finn lab!
July 16, 2014	Dr. Thomas gives an invited seminar at KU Leuven in Belgium.
July 10, 2014	Dr. Thomas presents at the World Congress on Biomechanics.
July 8, 2014	Dr. Thomas gives an invited talk in the Lymphatic Symposium at the World Congress on Biomechanics.
June 19, 2014	Jaeho defends his thesis.
June 6, 2014	Alex W. is granted a President's Undergraduate Research Award!
June 6, 2014	Nate presents his work at the Immunoengineering Seminar Series.
June 2, 2014	Cassandra Marks, a teacher from Cedar Grove High School, joins the lab as a part of the GIFT program organized through CEISMC!
May 27, 2014	Eric Odermatt and Ruwenne Moodley, students from Westminster High School, join the lab!
May 17, 2014	The lab does molecular gastronomy! But don't worry - we had fun with food at the lab party, not in the lab.
May 12, 2014	Veena, a first year undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering who worked in the lab as a high school student, re-joins the lab!
April 23, 2014	Dr. Thomas presents in the Northwestern University Biotechnology Chemical Engineering course.
April 18, 2014	Alex presents at the Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting in Denver.
April 18, 2014	Karan presents at the Air Products Research Symposium.
April 11, 2014	Dr. Thomas presents an invited seminar at the University of Texas Medical Branch Pharmacology Department.
March 28, 2014	Nate and Alex present at the 2014 Regenerative Medicine Conference at Hilton Head.
March 5, 2014	Alex is awarded Honorable Mention for the Society for Biomaterials STAR Award.
February 28, 2014	Alex, Nate, and Dr. Thomas present at the 1st Annual Georgia ImmunoEngineering Consortium (GIEC) Symposium.
February 5, 2014	Dr. Thomas presents Jaeho and Mason's work at the ASME 3rd Congress for Nanoengineering for Medicine and Biology meeting in San Francisco.
January 6, 2014	Manuela Sushnitha, a second year undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering, joins the lab!
January 3, 2014	Karan is named as an Air Products ME Undergraduate Researcher. Congrats!
December 19, 2013	Dr. Thomas's Biomaterials manuscript is featured in Nature Outlook article on the use of biomaterials in cancer vaccination!
December 12, 2013	The lab goes bowling!
November 12-13, 2013	Nate presents a poster and Dr. Thomas gives a presentation at the 2013 TERMIS-AM meeting in Atlanta.
November 12, 2013	Alex presents at the Nano@Tech Seminar Series.
October 29, 2013	Rahul is granted a President's Undergraduate Research Award!
October 19, 2013	Dr. Thomas presents at the NanoFANS forum on Immuno-engineering.
October 12, 2013	Nate presents at the 16th State of Georgia Lymphedema Education and Awareness Conference.
September 28, 2013	Dr. Thomas gives the Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award lecture at the 2013 Biomedical Engineering Society meeting in Seattle.
August 19, 2013	Rahul Rege, a fourth year undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering, joins the lab!
August 13, 2013	Dr. Thomas presents at the IBB Breakfast Seminar Series.
July 19, 2013	Dr. Thomas is awarded the Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society! Link to articles here, here, here, here .
July 18, 2013	The Thomas lab is awarded a NSF award!
June 27, 2013	Dr. Thomas presents the lab's work in two platform presentations at the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference in Sunriver, Oregon.
June 18, 2013	Alex presents his work at the Immunoengineering Seminar Series.
April 24, 2013	Nate is selected as a NIH Biotechnology Cell and Tissue Engineering trainee. Congrats!
April 18, 2013	Sara wins Honorable Mention for Best Poster Award at the Air Products ME Undergraduate Research Symposium.
March 29, 2013	Nate is awarded Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
March 25, 2013	Mason is named an Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher in the College of Engineering! Congrats and well done Mason!
March 15, 2013	Patrick is awarded the College of Science Roger Wartell and Stephen Brossette Award for Multidisciplinary Studies! This award recognizes a top student in the college who has studied or conducted research at the interface of physics, mathematics and biology. Congrats and well done Patrick!
February 4, 2013	Dr. Thomas presents at the ASME 2nd Congress for Nanoengineering for Medicine and Biology.
January 15, 2013	Dr. Thomas presents at the Integrated Cancer Research Center Seminar Series.
January 7, 2013	Jason Yun, a fourth year undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering, and Blair Smith, a fourth year undergraduate in Biology, join the lab!
December 8, 2012	Lab party!
November 27, 2012	Mason and Sara are named Air Products ME Undergraduate Researchers. Congrats!
October 25, 2012	Dr. Thomas presents the lab's work on targeting tumor-draining lymph nodes using synthetic nanoparticles for cancer adjuvant therapy at the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
October 24, 2012	Dr. Thomas presents a poster at the 4th Symposium on Frontiers in Biomechanics: Mechanics in Oncology in Atlanta, GA.
October 4, 2012	Dr. Thomas presents the lab's work on targeting tumor-draining lymph nodes using synthetic nanoparticles for cancer adjuvant therapy at the Society for Biomaterials Fall Symposium in New Orleans, LA.
October 1, 2012	Veena, a senior high school student, joins the lab!
September 17, 2012	Nathan Rohner, a Bioengineering Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Nate!
September 7, 2012	Lab lunch!
September 4, 2012	Alex Schudel, a Bioengineering Ph.D. candidate in Materials Science and Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Alex!
August 20, 2012	Karan Khendry, a fourth year undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering, and Alex Warner, a second year undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering, join the lab. Welcome Karan and Alex!
August 17-19, 2012	Dr. Thomas attends the Engineering Ambassador National Workshop held at Penn State's University Park campus.
June 29, 2012	Lab lunch on a cool, breezy summer day with visiting students from Khalifa University.
June 18, 2012	Patrick Strickland, a fourth year undergraduate student in Physics and Pre-health, joins the lab. Welcome Patrick!
May 14, 2012	Jaeho Oh, a Bioengineering Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering, and Jacob McClain, a third year undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering, join the lab. Welcome Jaeho and Jacob!
May 3, 2012	Dr. Thomas presents a seminar in the Emory University Department of Biochemistry.
April 27, 2012	The laboratory is awarded funding from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program for undergraduate research over the summer term. Congrats!
April 15, 2012	Sara Tuell, a first year undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Sara!
April 1, 2012	Mason McClatchey, a fourth year undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering, joins the lab. Welcome Mason!
February 16, 2012	Dr. Thomas presents a seminar in the GT School of Biology.
January 3, 2012	Dr. Thomas presents work on the role of lymphatic transport in immunity and its implications in cancer immunotherapy at the Society for the Physical Regulation of Biology and Medicine in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
November 10, 2011	Dr. Thomas presents at the Georgia Institute of Technology IBB Industry Partner’s Symposium in Atlanta, GA, outlining the lab’s goal of developing therapeutic strategies to treat metastatic cancers
November 3, 2011	Dr. Thomas presents work on targeting lymph nodes using nanotechnology for cancer immunotherapy at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer in Bethesda, MD.
November 1, 2011	Hello! The Thomas lab starts at Georgia Tech in the IBB building.

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