April 2024 – Wilhelm Lab undergraduate student Hamilton Young received the NSF GRFP award! Outstanding accomplishment, Hamilton!

March 2024 – An eventful day for the Wilhelm Lab with the following SBME awards presented to:

• Vinit, Outstanding PhD Graduate
• Hamilton, Outstanding Senior
• Thao, Outstanding Sophomore

And a postdoc farewell for Dr. Lin Wang. Thank you!

March 2024 – Our BE4NANO students from the Caddo-Kiowa Technology Center visited the OUHSC College of Nursing to learn about healthcare skills. Thanks the College of Nursing team for the support!

March 2024 – We hosted high school students from the Caddo-Kiowa Technology Center for our BE4NANO Day. Thanks to the SBME and GCoE teams for the support!

January 2024 – Hamilton Young, Yuxin He, and the team published a review article in the journal Nano Letters.

H. Young, Y. He, B. Joo, S. Ferguson, A. Demko, S. K. Butterfield, J. Lowe, N. F. Mjema, V. Sheth, L. Whitehead, M. J. Ruiz-Echevarria, S. Wilhelm, “Toward the scalable, rapid, reproducible, and cost-effective synthesis of personalized nanomedicines at the point of care”
Nano Letters, 2024, published online.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04171 | PDF (4.0 MB)

November 2023 – Dr. Lin Wang and the team published a review article in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.

L. Wang, S. Quine, A. N. Frickenstein, M. Lee, W. Yang, V. M. Sheth, M. D. Bourlon, Y. He, S. Lyu, L. Garcia-Contreras, Y. D. Zhao, S. Wilhelm, “Exploring and analyzing the systemic delivery barriers for nanoparticles”
Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, published online.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202308446 | PDF (5.5 MB)

November 2023 – Vinit Sheth defended his Ph.D. thesis “Establishing three-dimensional super-resolution microscopy methods for quantifying intracellular nanoparticle distribution”. Congratulations, Dr. Sheth! Thank you to the Ph.D. committee members, Drs. Wei Chen, Qinggong Tang, and JP Masly.

November 2023 – We participated in the Caddo-Kiowa Technology Center STEM Day together with 150 high school students. Thanks to the various OU and OUHSC colleagues for the support!

November 2023 – Our SBME faculty team visited the pre-engineering and biomedical sciences high school classrooms at the Caddo-Kiowa Technology Center in Fort Cobb to engage students in bionanotechnology, bioimaging, and biomedical engineering.

October 2023 – Group picture of the Wilhelm Lab team members.

October 2023 – PhD candidate, Vinit Sheth, received the Gallogly College of Engineering Dissertation Excellence Award. Congratulations!

July 2023 – The Wilhelm Lab received an NIH R35 MIRA award “A novel framework for nanomedicine development”. Thank you to the entire lab team, mentors, collaborators, friends, and colleagues who helped along the way.

July 2023 – Alex Frickenstein defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Improving quantification of nanoscale interactions by engineering monodisperse gold nanoparticles”. Congratulations, Dr. Frickenstein! Thank you to the Ph.D. committee members, Drs. Handan Acar, John Clegg, and Rakhi Rajan.

July 2023 – Majood Haddad and Alex Frickenstein published a review article in the journal Trends in Analytical Chemistry.

M. Haddad, A. N. Frickenstein, S. Wilhelm, “High-throughput single-cell analysis of nanoparticle-cell interactions”
Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023, 166, 117172. 

DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2023.11717  | PDF (4.6 MB)

July 2023 – PhD candidate, Alex Frickenstein, received the Gallogly College of Engineering Dissertation Excellence Award. Congratulations!