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December 2025: We just posted a preprint describing our work on adapting our enzymatic assay for measuring antiviral drugs to ganciclovir triphosphate – a drug used to treat cytomegalovirus infections in infants and immunocompromised people. We hope that this work enables routine therapeutic drug monitoring in CMV treatment and provides individualized care and improved outcomes. Here’s a presentation by lead author Willow Chernoske at the 26th International Workshop on Clinical Pharmacology of HIV, Hepatitis, and Other Antiviral Drugs in Amsterdam in September 2025.

November 2025: Dr. ****Olanrewaju ****was featured in the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Office Hours podcast. He talked about the lab’s work, motivations, and broader research vision.

September 2025: We received an NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. We are grateful for this generous support for our lab to develop self-powered and self-regulated microfluidics to streamline sample preparation in miniaturized mass spectrometry systems.

August 2025: Our manuscript CandyCollect open-to-closed (O2C) microfluidic system for rapid and user-centric detection of group A *Streptococcus* was published in Lab on a Chip! Congratulations to lead author Kelsey Leong and all our co-authors and collaborators.

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August 2025: Kelsey Leong received an Institute for Translational Health Sciences TL-1 predoctoral award. Congratulations Kelsey!

August 2025: Cosette Craig defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Cosette!
July 2025: We received an ITHS Early Stage Product Development Award for our collaborative work on the CandyCollect Open to Closed (O2C) Microfluidic system for Rapid and User-Centric Detection of Group A Streptococcus with Dr. Ashleigh Theberge and Dr. Erwin Berthier.
June 2025: Dr. Megan Chang has accepted a new position at Roche Diagnostics! We wish you all the best in this exciting new step in your translational research career, Megan.
June 2025: We celebrate our graduates: Annie Qiu, Caitlyn Kwong, Diya Rekhi, George Tang, Justus Brown, Mark Fernandez, Sarina Barnes, Zoe Blumenkranz. We are so grateful for all the dedication and joy you brought to your time with us. We are so excited to see what you will do next.
June 2025: Makayla Wilson Schmidt completed her rotation and joined our lab as a PhD student expanding our portfolio of enzyme activity assays for disease and treatment monitoring into prostate cancer screening and tuberculosis therapeutic drug monitoring. Welcome Makayla!
May 2025: Cosette Craig passed her PhD general exam. Congratulations Cosette!