2015

June
• Congratulations to Renuka on her manuscript entitled, "Engineering immunity in the mucosal niche against sexually transmitted infections."

May
• Congratulations to Renuka and her co-authors on their manuscript entitled, "Effect of mucosal cytokine administration on selective expansion of vaginal dendritic cells to support nanoparticle transport."
• Prof. Woodrow is awarded UW Undergraduate Research Mentor Award to recognize the achievements of undergrduate students who have trained in the lab. Congratulations to these students and all their mentors!

April
• Undegraduate alumnus Hunter Bennett joins Medical Scientist Training Program at UC San Diego.

March
• Congratulations to our Mary Gates Reseach Scholarship winners: Linhchi, Natacha, William!



2014

December
• Ben Read receive the UW Bioengineering Capstone Scholarship for his senior desging/research project.

October
•Prof. Woodrow gives invited symposium on the topic of "Nanotechnology for drug delivery" at the inaugural HIV Research for Prevention conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
• Cameron Ball receives a full scholarship to attend the HIVR4P conference and present a podium talk on:
"A single dose novel formulation of maraviroc using electrospun fabrics designed for instant and multi-day HIV prevention.
• Anna, Cameron and Prof. Woodrow travel to 2014 HIVR4P conference in South Africa.
• William Lykins presents a poster at BMES 2014 in San Antonio, TX.
• Wiliam Lykins receives prestigious Levinson Emerging Scholars award!
• Woodrow Lab welcomes research staff: Ryan Stoddard.

September
• Congratulations to William Lykins for receiving a travel scholarship to attend BMES 2014 in San Antonio, TX.
• Woodrow Lab welcomes rotation students Ian Blumenthal and David Peeler.
• Congratulations to Anna Blakney for passing her general exam!

August
• Congratulations to Emily Krogstad on her manuscript entitled, "Manufacturing scale-up of electrospun poly(vinyl alcohol) fibers containing tenofovir for vaginal drug delivery."

July
• Cameron Ball gradautes with a Ph.D. from the Woodrow Lab. See photos of send-off cooked up by the graduates students.
• Congratulations to William Lykins for being awarded the Stratos-Stephan Endowed Award in Bioeningeering!
• Daniel Carson gives a platform presentation at CRS 2014 on the topic of "Programmable release of a water-soluble drug from electrospun nanofibers for HIV inhibition."
• Congratulations to the following students who presented posters at the 2014 CRS conference in Chicago: Cameron Ball and Jaehyung Park.

June
• Good-bye and best of luck to our graduating seniors: Hunter Bennett, Andrew Johnson and Alex Tillman. See the send-off at Gas Works Park and where these graduates are headed next.
• Congratulations to Cameron on his manuscript entitled, "Electrospun solid dispersions of maraviroc for rapid intravaginal pre-exposure prophylaxis of HIV."
• Hunter Bennett featured in UW Today News. Read more.

May
• Woodrow Lab welcomes a new senior fellow: Dr. Hangyu Zhang.
• Congratulations to Hunter Bennett for receiving the UW College of Engineering Dean's Medal for Academic Excellence!
• Woodrow Lab welcomes a new research staff: Karl Thoreson.

April
• Anna Blakney has been awarded a fellowship with the 2014 Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) Program, a partnership between NSF and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to conduct research in developing countries.
• Prof. Woodrow attends the BMGF Global Health Product Development Forum - Building for Impact, where she and other grantees speak with Melinda Gates about technologies for family planning and reproductive health.
• Congratulations to the following members who presented posters at the 2014 SFB conference in Denver, CO: Anna Blakney, Huarong Nie and Arielle Steger. Special kudos to Anna for receving a STAR honorable mention from SFB!
• Woodrow Lab welcomes a new PhD graduate student: Shijie Cao.

March
• Congratulations to Anna and her co-authors on their manuscript entitled, "Delivery of multipurpose prevention drug combinations from electrospun nanofibers using composite microarchitectures."


FEBRUARY
• Woodrow Lab is awarded an NIH/NIAID Preclinical Innovation Program (PIP) grant (R01 AI112002).

JANUARY
• Woodrow Lab welcomes a new Senior Fellow: Dr. Shih-Feng Chou.



2013

DECEMBER
• Congratulations to Renuka Ramanathan for passing her general exam!
• Congratulations to Alex Tillman and Ben Read for receiving a 2013 Mary Gates Research Scholarship.

NOVEMBER
• Congratulations to Renuka Ramanathan for receiving a CFAR STD & AIDS Training Fellowship.

OCTOBER
• Woodrow Lab welcomes research staff Daniel Carson. • Congratulations to Hunter Bennett for receiving a 2013-2014 Washington Research Foundation Fellowship.

SEPTEMBER
• Renuka Ramanathan gives an oral presentation at BMES 2013 on the topic of "Chemokine and growth factor-mediated expansion of vaginal antigen presenting cells.
• Joe Phan gives an oral presentation at BMES 2013 on the topic of "A Thermoresponsive Magnetic Nanoparticle System Using an Antiviral Lectin for HIV Capture and Concentration."
• Congratulations to the following students who presented posters at the 2013 BMES conference in Seattle: Hunter Bennett, Danielle Bright and Yonghou Jiang, Cameron Ball and Anna Blakney.
• Congratulations to Anna Blakney and co-authors for the review manuscript published in Antiviral Research.

AUGUST
• Congratulations to Reena Mahadevan on completing her BS/MS.
• Congratulations to Emily Krogstad and Cameron Ball for passing their general exam!
• Good-bye and best of luck to Deep Hathi who graduates from the UW with a B.S. in Bioengineering and begins his Ph.D. studies at Washington University.

JULY
• Prof. Woodrow gives an invited presentation at the 2013 Controlled Release Society session on Drug Delivery for Developing Countries/Global Challenges.

JUNE
• Congratulations to Anna Blakney for winning an appointment to the Molecular Medicine NIH training grant!
• Congratulations to Hunter Bennett for winning the Bioengineering Capstone Scholarship award!

MAY
• Congratulations to Eric Do for winning the NME award for best poster in the area of Biomolecular & Biomedical Sciences and Engineering for his poster entitled: "Developing Nanoparticle-Based Combination ARVs as an Effective Strategy for HIV Prevention."

APRIL
• Woodrow Lab welcomes research staff: Richard Edmark and Arielle Steger.
• Woodrow Lab welcomes fiscal and administrative specialist: Patricia Foster.

MARCH
• Woodrow Lab is awarded second phase of NIH/NIAID Microbicide Innovation Program VI grant (R33 AI094412).
• Good-bye and best of luck to Dr. Thanya Chaowanachan!
• Dr. Thanya Chaowanchan's paper on combination ARV drug-nanoparticles is published in Plos ONE.
• William Lykins is awarded a 2013 Amgen Scholars Program award to conduct summer research at UCLA.
• Woodrow Lab welcomes a new postdoctoral scientist: Dr. Huarong Nie.
• Woodrow Lab welcomes a new graduate student: Anna Blakney.
• Woodrow Lab welcomes a new research scientist: Dr. Yonghou Jiang.

FEBRUARY
• Prof. Woodrow gives an invited presentation at CONRADS's Product Development Workshop.
• Prof. Woodrow participates in NIH/NIAID-Gates Think Tank on Drug Delivery Systems.

JANUARY
• Woodrow Lab expands into new space in Foege N551B: Electrospinning Laboratory.
• Woodrow Lab welcomes a new research scientist: Dr. Jaehyung Park.


2012

OCTOBER
• Cameron's and Emily's paper on drug eluting fibers for multipurpose prevention is published in Plos ONE.
• Cameron Ball gives an oral presentation at BMES 2012 on the topic of "Drug-eluting fibers for STI inhibition and contraception."
• Emily Krogstad gives a poster presentation at BMES 2012 on the topic of "Evaluating drug synergy of tenofovir and nanparticle-based antiretroviral microbicides."
• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invests in the Woodrow Lab to develop drug-eluting fibers.
• Hunter Bennett and Eric Do are recipients of a research fellowship from the Levinson Emerging Scholars Program.

September
• Prof. Woodrow is awarded 2012 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.

August
• Prof. Woodrow is invited to the Population Council to discuss nanomaterials for applications in reproductive health.

July
• Three Woodrow Lab members win 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Read news.
• Prof. Woodrow travels to 2012 IAS Conference in Washington D.C. to present on CNIHR award.
• 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
• Prof. Woodrow is invited to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to discuss drug-eluting fibers for multipurpose prevention.
• Woodrow Lab is awarded NIH/NIAID grant for Combined Multipurpose Prevention Strategies for Sexual and Reproductive Health (R21 AI098648).
• 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 MIT.
• 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.
• Good-bye and best of luck to Nathan Egge who graduates from the UW with a B.S. in Bioengineering.

May
• Congratulations to Renuka for passing her qualifying exam: An Activatable Imaging Probe for Efficient and Selective Monitoring of Intracellular BACE1 Proteolysis.
• Eric Do is awarded a 2012 fellowship to conduct summer research at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for NanoBioTechnology Summer REU.

April
• Hunter Bennett is awarded a 2012 Amgen Scholars Program award to conduct summer research at UCLA.
• Woodrow Lab presents at 2012 International Microbicide Conference in Sydney, Australia.
• Prof. Woodrow is invited to the 2012 International Microbicide Conference to speak in the symposium on New Developments in Drug Delivery Technology.

March
• Cameron Ball wins 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
• Emily Krogstad wins 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
• Adrienne Rothschilds wins 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
• Woodrow Lab presents at 2012 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle, WA.
• Congratulations to Emily for passing her qualifying exam: Oxidative-Responsive Composite Electrospun Coating for Prevention of Bacterial Infection and Fibrous Encapsulation.

February
• Congratulations to Cameron Ball 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.
• Hunter Bennett wins 2011 Mary Gates Research Scholarship: Alginate Microcapsules as Implantable Drug Delivery Systems.

Novemeber
• Woodrow Lab presents at invitation-only symposium on Multipurpose Prevention Technologies for Reproductive Health in Washington D.C.

July
• Prof. Woodrow travels to 2011 IAS Conference in Rome, Italy to present on CNIHR award.

June
• Good-bye and best of luck to Lauren Schergen who graduates from the UW with a B.S. in Bioengineering.
• Lauren Schergen wins Bioengineering Capstone Scholarship for her senior capstone project: Polymeric Particles as Vehicles for HIV Microbicide Delivery.
• Woodrow Lab is awarded NIH/NIAD Microbicide Innovation Program VI grant (R21 AI094412).

May
• Woodrow Lab welcomes a new graduate student Renuka Ramanathan.
• Woodrow Lab welcomes a new graduate student Cameron Ball.
• 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
• Deep Hathi wins 2010 Mary Gates Research Scholarship: Stabilize Lipid-Shell Nanoparticles as Synthetic Polymer Pathogens for Generating Mucosal Immunity.
• Lauren Schergen wins 2010 Mary Gates Research Scholarship: Polymeric Particles as Vehicles for HIV Microbicide Delivery.

November
• Woodrow Lab welcomes a new graduate student Emily Krogstad.

September
• Lab renovation completed!

July
• Prof. Woodrow travels to 2010 IAS Conference in Vienna, Austria to present on CNIHR award.

June
• Prof. Woodrow is awarded the OAR/NIAID/IAS Creative and Novel Ideas in HIV Research grant for new investigators in HIV.

March
• Joseph Phan wins 2010 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
• Woodrow Lab welcomes our first graduate student Joseph Phan.

January
• Woodrow Lab welcomes our first undergraduate student Lauren Schergen.
• Woodrow Lab welcomes our first postdoctoral fellow Dr. Thanya Choawanchan.