News

Wed, 05/20/2015

Carl Schoellhammer was awarded the 2015 Lemelson-MIT "Cure It!" Graduate Student Prize for developing novel devices and treatment modalities to enable the transdermal and oral delivery of biologics. He explains his inventions that aim to ease discomfort for millions of patients at: ...

Thu, 05/14/2015

Chih-Jen Shih will shortly join the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH Zürich) as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations!

Mon, 05/11/2015

Congratulations to Professor Daniel Blankschtein for being awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award in Recognition of Outstanding Performance in Graduate Teaching from the students of the Chemical Engineering department! This is Professor Blankschtein's 9th such award since he...

Fri, 04/10/2015

Carl Schoellhammer successfully defended his thesis titled "Use of Physical Enhancers for Gastrointestinal and Transdermal Drug Delivery" on April 10th, 2015. Congratulations!

Thu, 04/09/2015

Carl Schoellhammer's article "Microneedles for Drug Delivery via the Gastrointestinal Tract" was one of the ten most downloaded papers (2,081 times) published in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the past three months and is thus being featured on the journal’s website (...

Tue, 03/31/2015

Congratulations to Diviya Sinha for being awarded the very competitive Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Fellowship! This fellowship recognizes talented young scientists who have the potential to become influential role models for other women in the realms of science and technology both in...

Thu, 02/26/2015

Congratulations to Vishnu Sresht, Dr. Lauren Zarzar, and collaborators whose method for creating complex emulsion droplets that can change their configuration in response to stimuli, such as light, or the addition of a chemical surfactant, has been highlighted on the MIT homepage

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Sat, 11/01/2014

Andreas Reichmuth joins our group as a Visiting Student. Welcome!

http://dbgroup.mit.edu/andreas-reichmuth

Wed, 10/15/2014

Dr. Hari Katepalli joins our group as a Post Doctoral Associate. Welcome!

http://dbgroup.mit.edu/hari-katepalli

Sun, 10/05/2014

Congratulations to Carl Schoellhammer, Dr. Giovanni Traverso, and collaborators whose research on the development of a microneedle drug (referred to as the mPill) for the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases like ulcerative colitis has been highlighted on the MIT homepage