Category Archive: metastatic cancer cells

Jun 19

pdnano Lab Awarded BIPH Technology Bridge Fund for Ovarian Cancer Nanomedicine

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Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health, Harper Cancer Research Institute, Hybrid nanoparticles, metastatic cancer cells

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Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health · Technology Bridge Fund We’re delighted to announce that the pdnano lab has received a Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health (BIPH) Technology Bridge Fund award. The Technology Bridge program supports promising precision-health projects in generating the additional preliminary data needed to  strengthen high-impact grant resubmissions. The funded project — Multispecific …

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Apr 24

Pitching MagSiNs at the IDEA Center’s Inaugural Research Commercialization Grant Event

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Harper Cancer Research Institute, Hybrid nanoparticles, IDEA center, metastatic cancer cells, multidrug resistance

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On Friday, April 24, 2026, I had the privilege of being one of six Notre Dame faculty selected to pitch at the inaugural Research Commercialization Grant (RCG) Pitch Event, hosted by the IDEA Center at Notre Dame in Leighton Hall at Innovation Park. The morning brought together external investors, the IDEA Center Advisory Council, and …

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Apr 03

Society for Biomaterials – Seattle 2019

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AD&T Notre Dame, Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health, Combination chemotherapy, Conference abstracts, metastatic cancer cells, multidrug resistance, SFB2019

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I was in Seattle for the week at the Society for Biomaterials 2019 conference. Excited to have data from three projects in four sessions at SFB 2019. Thanks to CTSI-PDT (#CTSI), ACS-IRG(#americancersociety), NDnano, AD&T and HCRI for their crucial support for these projects. 1. Rapid-Fire oral Presentation on Wednesday on April 3, 2019, from 4:05 …

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Feb 14

American Cancer Society Seed Grant Awarded to us to Develop a Label-Free, Precise Chemotherapeutic Delivery to Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells In Vivo

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AD&T Notre Dame, American Cancer Society, Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health, chemotherapeutics, Harper Cancer Research Institute, Label-free, magnetoelectrics, metastatic cancer cells

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We are extremely excited and thankful to the American Cancer Society and the Harper Cancer Research Institute for facilitating this seed grant for our work on label-free targeting of undruggable cancer cells. We intend to target non-targetable cancer cells by tuning the force exerted by label-free nanomaterials at the cell membrane to selectively permeabilize the …

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Aug 30

Nanoparticles that act as an “ON and OFF” switch to improve the safety and effectiveness of CAR-T cancer therapy

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AD&T Notre Dame, Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health, Combination chemotherapy, Harper Cancer Research Institute, Immunotherapy, metastatic cancer cells

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Always thankful for the internal support from Notre Dame Research #notredameresearch for supporting high risk-high gain projects such as mine. Here’s hoping that my faculty research support program initiation grant (FRSP-IG) #FRSP will pave the way for safer, more accessible CAR-T therapies and better quality of life for patients. https://research.nd.edu/news/developing-an-on-and-off-switch-for-breast-cancer-treatment/ The biggest bottle neck in Chimeric …

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Jul 02

Inaugural Woodward family endowment for excellence in NDNANO undergraduate research awarded to Margo Waters

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AD&T Notre Dame, Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health, Cancer stem cells, Combination chemotherapy, Harper Cancer Research Institute, metastatic cancer cells

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Congratulations to Margo Waters of the Nallathamby lab for having being selected for the Inaugural Woodward family endowment for excellence in NDnano undergraduate research! Margo has been an exceptional contributor to advancing research on novel cancer therapeutics in our lab. You can check out more about what motivates her at https://research.nd.edu/news/inaugural-woodward-family-endowment-for-excellence-in-ndnano-undergraduate-research-awarded/

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