Our Latest Updates
April 2024
Yuanjun (Biochem) and Arian (Neuroscience) have been awarded the 2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Binghamton University School of Pharmacy to conduct innovative gene delivery and immunoengineering projects!
April 2024
Evelyn (Neuroscience) will attend the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (IBMS) of Academia Sinica Taiwan as a summer research intern studying viral immunology at the Cheng Lab.
April 2024
Maeko (Biochem) has been accepted to SUNY Upstate Medical University as one of the SURF program's cancer research scholars.
April 2024
Sherman (Biochem) has been accepted to SUNY Upstate Medical University - as one of the SURF program’s summer research scholars.
Mar 2024
Congrats to Aarnav (Integrative Neurosciences) for being accepted as one of the 2024 Guthrie Scholars PreMed Interns!
Dec 2023
The MEI lab is awarded a research grant from the Foundation to Eradicate Duchenne (FED) to work towards overcoming gene therapy barriers for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
We thank the FED for the generous support, and we will have more to share in the coming year.
Oct 2023
We welcome Dr. Pu-Sheng (Vincent) Wei to join the MEI lab as a postdoctoral research associate.
Dr. Wei is a pharmacist by training who holds an MSc in Pharm. Sci. from the National University of Taiwan, where he studied the application of dual peptide conjugated nanoparticles in anticancer drug delivery. He also holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Science from Taipei Medical University, where he studied thermosensitive hydrogels for the controlled release of bispecific T cell engager antibodies in cancer immunotherapies. At the MEI lab, Dr. Wei will work on developing immunoengineering strategies using RNA-delivering lipid nanoparticles.
May 2023
Dr Mei joins the AACP 2023-2024 Research and Graduate Affairs Committee
April 2023
The MEI Lab is Awarded the 2023-24 Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence Seed Grants
Our lab has been awarded the 2023-24 Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence (TAE) Seed Grants from SUNY Binghamton!
We will collaborate on a Multi-omic Drug Target Discovery Project for Immunotherapy with Professors Yetrib Hathout (proteomics) and Matthew Emery (gene sequencing)!
We are grateful for the continued support from BU, and many thanks to our brilliant research assistants/students!
April 2023
Sunny Receives The Undergraduate Research Awards!
Congrats to Sunny (BChem junior) for receiving the Binghamton University Undergraduate Research Awards (URA)!! This award would support Sunny’s independent research project in developing and testing new immune-modulating molecules for immunotherapy.
The award is made available through a grant from the Binghamton University Foundation and through funds made available by the Dean of Harpur College and the ESURC office. We thank the URA committee and funding bodies for your generous support!
