Hi, Little nervous to put this out but giving the talk for my section at NAS tomorrow! you can join and watch livestream. all talks look great - mine will be around 3pm. I will share about my personal and research journey - only 15 minutes! @NASEM nasonline.swoogo.com/NAS161_researc…

If you want to hear the fundamental tenets of additive manufacturing, and a view to the future, listen to this amazing podcast from Philip DeSimone (Phil DeSimone 🇺🇸), from the office of the CEO at Carbon! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5-y….

GREAT news from Baltimore Penninsula - FREE office space for Startups! bit.ly/4de9GAY
UpSurge Baltimore StartupUMD Pava Marie LaPere Center for Entrepreneurship

“It is entirely possible to create new, mindful, positive habits. This is certainly possible with the practice of loving speech and deep listening toward ourselves. Positivity and gratitude slowly become a new, mindful habit.”

—Sister Dang Nghiem, “Rehearsing Suffering”

Excited to share a new initiative at the start of the year: the Transformative Center for Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery!

Thanks to our center faculty members, external board, and internal support for sharing in this vision and making it happen.

sites.usc.edu/transformative…

I recently participated in the 2024 Empower Your Pitch contest hosted by PHutures Careers at Johns Hopkins University as a Posdoc coach, mentoring a fantastic group of grad students on making a 3-minute research pitch. I am excited to share that I won this year’s Outstanding Coach Award!✨

AIMBE is seeking rising stars that are underrepresented in BME for our newest program, Emerging Leaders! Fellows can submit nominations opening this week. Learn more: aimbe.org/aimbe-emerging…

Joseph DeSimone: the Story of Carbon ($2.5 Billion Valuation) frontlines.io/podcasts/josep…

How often does one get the chance to tell their career story in one sitting? I recently had the privilege of doing just that on NGBIdeas 🇨🇦 where I shared the journey of my professional (and personal) life—complete with its ups and downs, twists and challenges. Tune in to discover…

It’s a fair question Pags.
There is something to agree and disagree about with both Trump and Biden and what they have done. Neither missed on everything, or, got it all right.

What this comes down to is leadership and trust. I look at it as who would I hire.

Having…

Incredible group of authors on the future of BME… can’t wait to read it.

Check out our journal cover (pubs.acs.org/toc/mpohbp/21/3) painted by the amazing Shae Shortt (shorttart.com) based on our work on modeling lymphatic transport doi.org/10.1021/acs.mo…

The lung is now a #CRISPR -gene-editable organ, folks! Recode (below) and Moderna-Vertex have paved the way for this in their CFTR-mRNA trials.
1. Kudos to Prime Medicine for taking on CF this way.
2. Trials for surfactant def'cy can be next.
recodetx.com/recode-therape…

I am inspired each day by the incredible achievements of the 5̳0̳ #PedsICU & #PedsAnes Women Physicians Johns Hopkins ACCM, Johns Hopkins Medicine & Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

Happy #NationalWomenPhysiciansDay to all of our #WomenInMedicine colleagues inspiring everywhere. #HerTimeIsNow #HeForShe

INBT researcher and Greek-born Stavroula Sofou has been awarded the Greece's top original research award for her work on simultaneously targeting regions of solid tumors, using the same cancer therapeutic but with different delivery methods. ow.ly/GNAK50QwLji

Huge respect to Professor You Han Bae for his impact on human health and brilliant career. He inspired me on many occasions with his deep thinking and willingness to speak his truth, most importantly on controversial topics, to leaders, and future leaders, of the pharma field.

I’m recruiting two editors for our close-knit multidisciplinary team.

The role involves constant learning, and offers flexibility in self-management and a sensible balance of independence and collaborative teamwork.

careers.springernature.com/job-invite/496…

1999
NIH Modular R01 Grant mechanisms: $250,000 / year.

2024
NIH Modular R01 Grant mechanisms: $250,000 / year.

25 years with no adjustment for inflation means scientists have lost ~48% of purchasing power while having to cover an increasing portion of salary and costs.

'The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do.' - Amelia Earhart #WednesdayWisdom

The holistic ability to process, filter, and decipher (in 2-3 seconds) who should get the ball -- and to do it successfully over and over again to the point that opponents can't stop you -- that’s the superpower.