News

November 2021 – Our undergraduate student, Emmy Francek, has been selected as the OU Gallogly College of Engineering Outstanding Senior. Congratulations, Emmy!

October 2021 – As part of the “Bionanotechnology Engagement for Native Americans in Oklahoma” (BE4NANO) outreach and education initiative, Wilhelm Lab visited the Caddo-Kiowa Technology Center in Fort Cobb to engage high school juniors in classroom hands-on demonstrations around bionanotechnology. We thank SBME Prof. Rebecca Scott for joining us, and we are grateful for the support through the NSF CAREER award (2048130).

August 2021 – Nathan Donahue published a co-authored research article in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. The work is a collaboration led by Dr. Emi Kiyotake and Prof. Michael Detamore (SBME).

CONDUCTIVE AND INJECTABLE HYALURONIC ACID/GELATIN/GOLD NANOROD HYDROGELS FOR ENHANCED SURGICAL TRANSLATION AND BIOPRINTING
E.A. Kiyotake, E.E. Thomas, H.B. Homburg, C.K. Milton, A.D. Smitherman, N.D. Donahue, K. Fung, S. Wilhelm, M.D. Martin, M.S. Detamore, “Conductive and injectable hyaluronic acid/gelatin/gold nanorod hydrogels for enhanced surgical translation and bioprinting.”
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 2022, 110, 2, 365-382.
DOI:10.1002/jbm.a.37294 | PDF (2.8 MB)
Highlighted on journal cover page (Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A; Volume: 110; Issue: 2; February 2022)

June 2021 – Proudly presenting the Wilhelm lab team members. An amazing group of young scientists and engineers.

PC: Travis Caperton.

May 2021 – Our collaborative team of OU and OUHSC researchers received the 2021 OU VPRP Strategic Equipment Investment Award. Congratulations to the team and thanks to the OU VPRP Office for the funding!

April 2021 – Congratulations to our students who received the following awards:

• Nathan Donahue: (i) Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant (OU Graduate Student Senate), and (ii) Outstanding Paper Award (OU SBME).
• Evan Mettenbrink: Outstanding Research Award (OU SBME).
• Emmy Francek: 2021 OU Regents’ Award for Outstanding Junior, and Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society Scholarship.

February 2021 – Wilhelm Lab was selected as a 2021 Scialog Fellow: Advancing Bioimaging.

February 2021 – Wilhelm Lab received the NSF CAREER Award 2021.

January 2021 – Wen Yang, Lin Wang, and Evan Mettenbrink published a review article in the journal Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology in collaboration with Prof. Paul DeAngelis (OUHSC).

W. Yang, L. Wang, E. Mettenbrink, P. L. DeAngelis, S. Wilhelm, “Nanoparticle toxicology.“
Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2021, 61, 269-289.

DOI: 10.1146/annurev-pharmtox-032320-110338 | PDF (1.9 MB)

December 2020 – As part of the “Bionanotechnology Engagement for Native Americans in Oklahoma” (BE4NANO) outreach and education initiative, Wilhelm Lab visited the Caddo-Kiowa Technology Center in Fort Cobb virtually via Zoom due to COVID19 restrictions to engage high school juniors in classroom hands-on demonstrations around bionanotechnology.

YouTube video from the Caddo-Kiowa Technology Center highlighting the BE4NANO outreach event: