Immunoengineering Lab
@WilsonLabVU
Wilson Lab at Vanderbilt
Join us for #IMES2025! 🚨 The abstract deadline is approaching for trainees and early career PI's! Due: Aug. 15, 2025 📢 Travel scholarships are available for students and postdocs from underrepresented or disadvantaged backgrounds! 👉Learn more/submit: tinyurl.com/DIMES2025
Researchers led by @VanderbiltU School of Engineering associate prof. John T. Wilson, have developed a new approach using a molecularly designed nanobody platform that seeks to make immunotherapy more effective in the treatment of cancer. Read more: ow.ly/VA5250WaQR0
Congrats to @WilsonLabVU @VanderbiltVinse graduate student Jack Loken on earning an @NSF GRFP award!!
Today, NSF announced an add’l 500 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awardees for the 2025-2026 cohort, bringing the total to approx 1,500. #NSFGRFP supports grad students as they pursue their dreams, build STEM skills, & become the next generation of innovators & leaders.
Engineering a STING Agonist-Powered Immune Response with Nanobody Conjugates - Kimryn Rathmell @NCIDirector | @BlaiseKimmel | @neil_chada oncodaily.com/insight/kimryn… #OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #MedX #MedEd #NanobodyConjugates
Excited to share our latest publication in @natBME! Big congrats to all co-authors on this highly collaborative effort – especially to first author @BlaiseKimmel for his dedication to this project! Check out the paper (open access) here: nature.com/articles/s4155…
The Cancer Nanotechnology Gordon Research Conference is just a few months away! Applications for the trainee-focused GRS are due by March 9 to be considered for an oral presentation. Hope to see you in Italy! grc.org/cancer-nanotec…
We are recruiting Postdoctoral Fellows to lead new projects focused on engineering of extracellular vesicles for drug delivery, gene editing, and immunotherapy for cancer and autoimmunity! Learn more about the position at tinyurl.com/366zr4fw!
Congratulations to Dr. Lucinda Pastora and Dr. Taylor Sheehy!
Check out our @Nature News & Views perspective article an exciting new cancer vaccine technology.
This vaccine technology stimulates a killer T cell response in mouse models of cancer and SARS-CoV-2 infection go.nature.com/4hSXx5f
Next talking about turning ‘cold’ tumors ‘hot’ with targeted immunotherapy is Dr. Anya Varanko from @WilsonLabVU.
STING agonist-based ER-targeting molecules boost antigen cross-presentation @Nature nature.com/articles/d4158… nature.com/articles/s4158…
The CDMRP supports a wide array of medical research initiatives. Congress' proposal to fund only 12 of the existing 35 CDMRP programs means the Kidney Cancer Research Program receives $0.00 this fiscal year. Patients like me rely on research to keep us alive. Stop the madness.
Please consider using the link below to register to join the Biomaterials Day meeting hosted at Vanderbilt on March 28. sites.google.com/view/vandy-bio… Abstract submission deadline will be extended to Jan 31. Please retweet!
We are recruiting Postdoctoral Fellows to lead new projects focused on engineering of extracellular vesicles for drug delivery, gene editing, and immunotherapy for cancer and autoimmunity! Learn more about the position at tinyurl.com/366zr4fw!
Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 VINSE NanoDay! Poster Competition: Lillie Cate Allen, Megan Keech, Patricia Poley, Hayden Pagendarm, Harrison Walker, Emanuela Riglioni, Arnaud, Shannon Martello, and Daniel Woods. See their posters here: bit.ly/49oTqve
Congratulations to @VandyBME graduate student Dr. Taylor Sheehy on her successful Ph.D. thesis defense! Very proud of Taylor and all of her accomplishments and thankful for her contributions to @WilsonLabVU. We will miss you!
New preclinical research shows that #fever-like temperatures have distinct effects on the #immunometabolism of various CD4+ T cell subsets. Learn more in Science #Immunology: scim.ag/8nD @DarrenHeintzman @JeffRathmell
Congrats to @JeffRathmell and @DarrenHeintzman on this "hot" @SciImmunology paper! It's been exciting to be involved along with co-advised student @RachaellSmithh_ to investigate how fever-relevant temperature impacts innate immunity in T cells. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…