News

March 2023 – Wilhelm Lab undergraduate student Rylee Newport received the NSF GRFP award! Outstanding accomplishment, Rylee!

March 2023 – Lin Wang published a News & Views article in the journal Nature Materials.

L. Wang, S. Wilhelm, “Exploiting endothelial transcytosis to reach into the brain”
Nature Materials, 2023, 22, 282-283

DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01487-3 | PDF (2.8 MB)

February 2023 – Stefan received the Gallogly College of Engineering Teaching Scholar Award. Thank you to all students and colleagues for your support!

January 2023 – Alex Frickenstein, Shirsha Mukherjee, and the team published a research article in the journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry.

A. N. Frickenstein, S. Mukherjee, T. Harcourt, Y. He, V. Sheth, L. Wang, Z. Malik, S. Wilhelm, “Quantification of monodisperse and biocompatible gold nanoparticles by single-particle ICP-MS”
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2023, accepted.

DOI: 10.1007/s00216-023-04540-x | PDF (5.3 MB)

January 2023 – Nathan, Ellen, Vinit, and Emmy published a research article in Micro.

SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND ACUTE CYTOTOXICITY EVALUATION OF CHLOROQUINE ENCAPSULATING LIPOSOMES
N. D. Donahue, E. Vance, V. Sheth, E. Francek, S. Wilhelm, “Synthesis, characterization, and acute cytotoxicity evaluation of chloroquine encapsulating liposomes”
Micro, 2023, 3, 1, 51-59.
DOI: 10.3390/micro3010005 | PDF (1.3 MB)

November 2022 – Our SBME faculty team visited the pre-engineering and biomedical sciences high school classrooms at the Caddo-Kiowa Technology Center in Fort Cobb to engage students in bionanotechnology, bioimaging, and biomedical engineering.

October 2022 – Tekena, a current BME junior in the Wilhelm Lab, received the Gallogly College of Engineering Pursuit of Excellence Award. Congratulations Tekena!

September 2022 – Vinit is a co-author of a collaborative research project led by Prof. Mukherjee (OUHSC). The paper has been published in  Advanced Science.

GOLD NANOPARTICLES DISRUPT THE IGFBP2/MTOR/PTEN AXIS TO INHIBIT OVARIAN CANCER GROWTH
M.N. Hossen, L.Wang, S.K.D. Dwivedi, Y. Zhang, G. Rao, C.K. Elechalwar, V. Sheth, A. Dey, S. Asfa, S.K. Gulla, C. Xu, K. Fung, J.D. Robertson, M. Bieniasz, S. Wilhelm, R. Bhattacharya, P. Mukherjee, “Gold nanoparticles disrupt the IGFBP2/mTOR/PTEN axis to inhibit ovarian cancer growth”
Advanced Science, 2022, published.
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202200491  | PDF (11.1 MB)

September 2022 – Evan Mettenbrink and Wen Yang published a review paper in Advanced Photonics Research.

BIOIMAGING WITH UPCONVERSION NANOPARTICLES
E. Mettenbrink, W. Yang, S. Wilhelm, “Bioimaging with upconversion nanoparticles”
Advanced Photonics Research, 2022, published.
DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202200098  | PDF (2.2 MB)

September 2022 – Wen Yang and her team published a paper in Nano Letters in collaboration with colleagues from OUHSC.

CONTROLLING NANOPARTICLE UPTAKE IN INNATE IMMUNE CELLS WITH HEPAROSAN POLYSACCHARIDES
W. Yang, A. N. Frickenstein, A. M. Holden, V. Sheth, E. M. Mettenbrink, L. Wang, A. Woodward, B. Joo, S. Butterfield, N. D. Donahue, D. E. Green, A. Thomas, T. Harcourt, Y. Hamilton, M. Tang, Z. Malik, R. Harrison, P. Mukherjee, P. L. DeAngelis, S. Wilhelm, “Controlling nanoparticle uptake in innate immune cells with heparosan polysaccharides.”
Nano Letters, 2022, published.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c02226  | PDF (6.5 MB)