‘Research Highlight’
Spring 2022 Faculty Research Highlights
Dec. 13, 2021—Spring Newsletter 2022 Faculty Research Highlights: Cynthia Reinhart-King, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering, President-Elect of the Biomedical Engineering Society Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US, and mortality is largely caused by the spread of a primary tumor to secondary sites. The Reinhart-King Lab studies how cancer cells get from the...
Spring 2022 Graduate Student Research Highlights
Dec. 13, 2021—Spring Newsletter 2022 graduate student research highlights: Ella Hoogenboezem, 5th year graduate student in the Duvall lab Short interfering RNA (siRNA) is a powerful gene silencing platform that has the potential to silence tumor-driving genes. However, siRNA medicines for tumor delivery have remained clinically elusive. In their native form, siRNAs are rapidly cleared by...