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Review article publication alert on engineering neuroimmune regulation.
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Smitty received the 2025 Joy Cappel Young Investigator Award at the 7th Annual Immune Modulation & Engineering Symposium (IMES) hosted by The School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems at Drexel University. The award is sponsored by Rockland Immunochemicals and honors the legacy of Joy Cappel, who served as Rockland’s President and CEO for…
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Excited to share that a patent has been awarded to inventors Lonnie Shea, Robert Oakes, Grace Bushnell, and Jacqueline Jeruss for detection of metastatic disease! Link to the patent (US 12,480,162 B2) can be found below. https://patents.google.com/patent/US12480162B2 Detection of metastatic disease and related methods Abstract: Provided herein are methods of determining a subject’s metastatic potential,…
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Smitty attended the Shea Lab Reunion and Symposium at the University of Michigan.
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The Oakes Lab has received a grant from DE-INBRE to design a biotechnology platform for countering metastasis.
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Smitty visited the Salk Institute along with collaborators from the Jewell Lab.
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Smitty attended BMES 2025 and was able to catchup with previous mentees from the Jewell Lab, Camilla Edwards and Shrey Shah.
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Elizabeth presents her data on microgel fabrication at the UD Undergraduate Research Symposium.
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The Laird Fellowship is an award created to honor the memory of George W. Laird. This fellowship is awarded to a first-year student in the Graduate College of Engineering at UD, and it aims to encourage recipients to engage in intellectual pursuits that may extend beyond their chosen fields of study. The award is based…
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We are excited that Elizabeth Miczuga is joining the Oakes Lab for Summer 2025 as an NSF Accelerating Research Translation (ART) Summer Scholar! Elizabeth is a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a planned graduation date of May 2026. During the academic year, she conducts research in Dr.…
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An interview with BME Alumnus and Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware, Robert “Smitty” Oakes – Biomedical Engineering | University of Utah Smitty was recently featured in an interview by his alma mater, The Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Utah. Check out the link to his interview above, where he reflects…
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It’s been exciting to launch the Oakes Lab at the University of Delaware this past Fall. Working with the first PhD students on the team, Lauren Porter and Mikayla Jackson, has been the highlight! Lauren is working on a new platform for regulating cancer metastasis. Mikayla is working on a drug delivery system that spans…
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