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  • DE-INBRE Grant Funded

    DE-INBRE Grant Funded

    The Oakes Lab has received a grant from DE-INBRE to design a biotechnology platform for countering metastasis.

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  • Salk Institute Visit

    Salk Institute Visit

    Smitty visited the Salk Institute along with collaborators from the Jewell Lab.

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  • BMES 2025 Recap

    BMES 2025 Recap

    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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  • Microgel REU Presentation

    Microgel REU Presentation

    Elizabeth presents her data on microgel fabrication at the UD Undergraduate Research Symposium.

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  • Mikayla Receives Laird Merit Fellowship

    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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  • ART Summer Scholar Joins Lab

    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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  • Utah BME Newsletter Interview

    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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  • Lab Launch

    Lab Launch

    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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