Group News
May, 2026
Madeline and Grace presented their research at the Chemistry Biochemistry Biology Interface (CBBI) Annual Symposium, and Grace won Best Poster Award! Congratulations!
May, 2026
Renzo is officially our very first graduate (BS in Biology)! We celebrated with a group dinner at the Bucket Shack (not pictured). We are so proud of all you've accomplished and wish you the best of luck!
May, 2026
Another successful Undergraduate Research Symposium for the books! Good job to our undergraduate presenters and a big thank you to their mentors!
April, 2026
Mari gave a lecture for Endometriosis Day 2026 at UPAEP and shared our recent progress in identifying glycobiomarkers for endometriosis. Thank you to Prof. Maria Vergara for the invitation!
April, 2026
The lab was awarded a research grant from Our Daughters Foundation! This award will significantly advance the development of novel immunotherapeutic strategies for endometriosis. We are very grateful for the support.
April, 2026
Mari received the inaugural BIPH Early Career Investigator Award! We are grateful for the support and recognition for our work in developing precision molecular tools to target and restore immune function.
March, 2026
New preprint! We describe a click chemistry platform that uses simple, commercially available reagents to convert standard antibodies into powerful tools for extracellular protein degradation. Congrats to Madeline for her contributions!
March, 2026
The lab was awarded seed funding from the Warren Center for Drug Discovery! This award will support the development of high-throughput methods for glycomimetic ligand discovery.
March, 2026
Undergraduate student Katherine Sopko was selected for both the Barry Goldwater scholarship and the Baten Family Summer Fellowship! Katherine's funded work seeks to develop novel chimeric molecules that target hard-to-treat solid tumors. Congratulations Katherine!
February, 2026
We welcome first year Integrated Biomedical Sciences PhD student, Oliver Reyes, to the group! Oliver is a Dean's Fellow and co-advised by Prof. Matthew Champion.
January, 2026
Postdoc Ell Handy was awarded the Murnal S. Chapekar Memorial Fellowship from the Harper Cancer Research Institute. Congratulations!
January, 2026
We welcome four new first year PhD students! Jinguan, Lily, and Phoebe join us through the biochemistry PhD program, and Fran is an Integrated Biomedical Sciences PhD student. Phoebe is co-advised with Prof. Brian Baker.
December, 2025
Mari was the speaker for the Lecture Like a Champion series at the Warren Center for Drug Discovery!
November, 2025
Mari presented the lab's work developing proximity approaches to reprogram tumor associated macrophages at the Biseach Initiative: Cancer Research Seminar.
October, 2025
Congratulations to Brandon, Madeline, and Grace for passing their Oral Candidacy Exams and advancing to candidacy!
July, 2025
We have officially moved into our newly renovated permanent lab space, 153 McCourtney Hall!
May, 2025
Mari presented the lab's work in chemical immunology at the Harper Cancer Research Institute Spring Seminar Series.
May, 2025
Renzo Gutierrez and Jason Vance are awarded CoS-SURF fellowships for summer research. Great job!
February, 2025
Welcome to our new first year PhD students, Grace, Madeline, and Brandon! We are so excited for all the discoveries ahead!
September, 2024
The lab was awarded our first research grant! The Glycoproteomics Innovator Grant from InterVenn Biosciences will advance our understanding of the role of glycans in endometriosis.
July, 2024
Postdoc Ell Handy was awarded the Society of Science Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congrats Ell!