2012

• October 2012: Cameron Ball gives an oral presentation at BMES 2012 on the topic of "Drug-eluting fibers for STI inhibition and contraception."
• October 2012: Emily Krogstad gives a poster presentation at BMES 2012 on the topic of "Evaluating drug synergy of tenofovir and nanparticle-based antiretroviral microbicides."
• October 2012: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invests $994,296 in the Woodrow Lab to develop drug-eluting fibers.
• October 2012: Hunter Bennett is recipient of a research fellowship from the Levinson Emerging Scholars Program.
• October 2012: Eric Do is recipient of a research fellowship from the Levinson Emerging Scholars Program.
• September 2012: Prof. Woodrow is awarded 2012 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.
• August 2012: Prof. Woodrow is invited to the Population Council to discuss nanomaterials for applications in reproductive health.
• July 2012: Three Woodrow Lab members win 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Read news.
• July 2012: Prof. Woodrow travels to 2012 IAS Conference in Washington D.C. to present on CNIHR award.
• July 2012: Prof. Woodrow is invited to the 2012 Controlled Release Society to present in the Young Scientist Workshop on the topic of Mucosal Drug and Gene Delivery: Barriers and Opportunities.
• June 2012: Prof. Woodrow is invited to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to discuss drug-eluting fibers for multipurpose prevention.
• June 2012: Woodrow Lab is awarded NIH/NIAD grant for Combined Multipurpose Prevention Strategies for Sexual and Reproductive Health (R21 AI098648).
• June 2012: Good-bye and best of luck to Adrienne Rothschilds who graduates from the UW with a B.S. in Bioengineering and begins her Ph.D. studies at UC Berkeley this fall.
• June 2012: Congratulations to Reena Mahadevan who graduates from the UW with a B.S. in Bioengineering and begins her M.S. studies in the Woodrow Lab this fall.
• June 2012: Good-bye and best of luck to Nathan Egge who graduates from the UW with a B.S. in Bioengineering.
• May 2012: Congratulations to Renuka for passing her qualifying exam: An Activatable Imaging Probe for Efficient and Selective Monitoring of Intracellular BACE1 Proteolysis.
• May 2012: Eric Do is awarded a 2012 fellowship to conduct summer research at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for NanoBioTechnology Summer REU.
• April 2012: Hunter Bennett 2012 Amgen Scholars Program award to conduct summer research at UCLA.
• April 2012: Woodrow Lab presents at 2012 International Microbicide Conference in Sydney, Australia.
• April 2012: Prof. Woodrow is invited to the 2012 International Microbicide Conference to speak in the symposium on New Developments in Drug Delivery Technology.
• March 2012: Cameron Ball wins 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
• March 2012: Emily Krogstad wins 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• March 2012: Adrienne Rothschilds wins 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
• March 2012: Woodrow Lab presents at 2012 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle, WA.
• March 2012: Congratulations to Emily for passing her qualifying exam: Oxidative-Responsive Composite Electrospun Coating for Prevention of Bacterial Infection and Fibrous Encapsulation.
• February 2012: Congratulations to Cameron for passing his qualifying exam: An Engineering Approach to Understanding the Role of Lymph Node Structure and Function in Peripheral Tissue Drainage.

2011

• December 2011: Nathan Egge wins 2011 Mary Gates Research Scholarship: Polymer Supported Lipid Bilayer Virus Like Particles for HIV Vaccine Design.
• December 2011: Hunter Bennett wins 2011 Mary Gates Research Scholarship: Alginate Microcapsules as Implantable Drug Delivery Systems.
• Novemeber 2011: Woodrow Lab presents at invitation-only symposium on Multipurpose Prevention Technologies for Reproductive Health in Washington D.C.
• July 2011: Prof. Woodrow travels to 2011 IAS Conference in Rome, Italy to present on CNIHR award.
• June 2011: Good-bye and best of luck to Lauren Schergen who graduates from the UW with a B.S. in Bioengineering.
• June 2011: Lauren Schergen wins Bioengineering Capstone Scholarship for her senior capstone project: Polymeric Particles as Vehicles for HIV Microbicide Delivery.
• June 2011: Woodrow Lab is awarded NIH/NIAD Microbicide Innovation Program VI grant (R21/R33 AI094412).
• May 2011: Woodrow Lab welcomes a new graduate student Renuka Ramanathan.
• May 2011: Woodrow Lab welcomes a new graduate student Cameron Ball.
• May 2011: Congratulations to Joe for passing his qualifying exam: Development of a Novel Paper-Based Diagnostic for Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Seasonal Influenza A/B.

2010

• December 2010: Deep Hathi wins 2010 Mary Gates Research Scholarship: Stabilize Lipid-Shell Nanoparticles as Synthetic Polymer Pathogens for Generating Mucosal Immunity.
• December 2010: Lauren Schergen wins 2010 Mary Gates Research Scholarship: Polymeric Particles as Vehicles for HIV Microbicide Delivery.
• November 2010:Woodrow Lab welcomes a new graduate student Emily Krogstad.
• September 2010: Lab renovation completed!
• July 2010: Prof. Woodrow travels to 2010 IAS Conference in Vienna, Austria to present on CNIHR award.
• June 2010: Prof. Woodrow is awarded the OAR/NIAID/IAS Creative and Novel Ideas in HIV Research grant for new investigators in HIV.
• March 2010: Joseph Phan wins 2010 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
• March 2010: Woodrow Lab welcomes our first graduate student Joseph Phan.
• January 2010: Woodrow Lab welcomes our first undergraduate student Lauren Schergen.
• January 2010: Woodrow Lab welcomes our first postdoctoral fellow Dr. Thanya Choawanchan.