Author Archives: Andrew Younger

As part of President Obama and Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative, Josh will be an invited conferee at a meeting focused on “Systems and Synthetic Biology for Designing Rational Cancer Immunotherapies” in October.

Congratulations to Andrew on being appointed to the Biotechnology Training Program!

Josh is interviewed and Michelle’s research is featured in a Science Magazine technology feature on extracellular vesicles. Read more here:

http://www.sciencemag.org/custom-publishing/technology-features/membrane-messengers-extracellular-vesicles

Congratulations to Neil who was awarded the second place Mickelson Prize at this year’s McCormick Graduation Convocation!

Congratulations to Patrick who was just awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) fellowship from NIH!

Congratulations to Praneet who was just awarded a Weinberg College Summer Research Grant!

Congratulations to Michelle who recently published her 2nd first author publication in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles! Read it here

Andrea and Imran were selected to receive a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant (URG)! Congratulations!

Congratulations to Kelly Schwarz who won this years Leonard Lab Bracket Challenge!

Welcome to our new undergraduate researchers Andrea Shepard, Imran Khan, and Praneet Polineni!

Congratulations to Devin who won a NSF fellowship!

Undergraduate researcher Neil Dalvie has accepted MIT’s offer for graduate studies for the anticipated degree of Ph.D.

Congratulations and good luck!

Keynote address by Professor Mike Jewett from Northwestern University and Professor James Collins from MIT.

http://syntheticbiology.northwestern.edu/

Michelle Hung won a meritorious travel grant from the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT)!

Welcome to our new undergraduate researcher Pear Dhiantravan!

Welcome to our new undergraduate researcher Shreya Udani!

Welcome to our two new Chemical Engineering PhD students Devin Stranford and Peter Su!

Congratulations to Josh who got officially promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!

Andy Scarpelli successfully defended his thesis!

Austin Rottinghuas joins our lab for a summer research project from Northwestern’s Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)

Rachel Dudek successfully defended her thesis!

Wells et al. paper highlighted in Northwestern McCormick Engineering News! Read More

Hung et al. was one of the most viewed JBC articles published in March and April! Check out the article! Pubmed

Congratulations to Michelle Hung for being selected for the Best Mentor Award from Niles West High School

Congratulations to Neil Dalvie for being awarded the Chemistry of Life Processes Summer Scholar Award!

Congratulations to Taylor Dolberg for winning the NDSEG graduate research fellowship!

Congratulations to Taylor Dolberg for winning the NSF graduate research fellowship!

Congratulations to Joe Muldoon for wining the NSF Honorable Mention!

Congratulations to Ragan Pitner and Andy Scarpelli for their recent paper in ACS Synthetic Biology! Get it here ACS

 Congratulations to Michelle Hung for her recent paper in JBC! Pubmed

Congratulations to Danny Wells and Yishan Chuang for their recent paper in PLOS Computational Biology. Read it here Pubmed

Congratulations to Nichole Daringer and Kelly Schwarz for their recent paper in JBC! Get it here JBC

Congratulations to Naomi Lisse for winning an Undergraduate Research Grant!

Michelle Hung invited to speak at the IBiS mini-symposium!

Congratulations to Neil Dalvie for winning an Undergraduate Research Grant!

Welcome to our new Chemical Engineering Ph.D. student Taylor Dolberg to the lab!

Congratulations to Rachel Dudek, Yishan Chuang, and Josh Leonard for publishing in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology! Read it here Pubmed

The Leonard Lab features prominently, including the cover art (by Justin Muir), in the current ACS Synthetic Biology issue! ACS Synthetic Biology Special Issue: Viewpoint by Josh Leonard, Podcast interview with Josh Leonard, Daringer et al!

Dr. Leonard and Dr. Bagheri receive a Cornew Innovation Award from CLP

@Addgene Tweets about the Modular Extracellular Sensor Architecture plasmids now available from the Leonard Lab #SynBio

Congratulations to Kelly Schwarz for passing her qualifying exam!

Congratulations to Andrew Younger for being awarded a EPA STAR graduate fellowship!

Congratulations to Andrew Younger for being awarded the Neil Welker IBiS Teaching Assistant Excellence Award!

Congratulations to Kelly Schwarz for being awarded the ChBE Departmental Teaching Assistant award!

Welcome to our new MD/Ph.D. student Patrick Donahue to the Lab!

Congratulations to Joseph Muldoon on being appointed to the Biotechnology cluster!

Congratulations to Michelle Hung on her first first author research article! Read More

Daringer et al. paper highlighted in the Society for Biological Engineering Connections E-Newsletter Read More

Congratulations to Nichole Daringer for successfully defending her thesis!

Congratulations to Andrew Younger for passing his qualifying exam!

Research featured on Northwestern’s Office for Research Discovery website Read More

Congratulations to Yishan Chuang for successfully defending her thesis!

Welcome to our new IBiS Ph.D. student Joseph Muldoon to the lab!

Congratulations to Andrew Younger for being selected for the Best Mentor Award from Niles West High School

Congratulations to Michelle Hung for being awarded the Excellence in Research Award from the American Society of Cell and Gene Therapy

Congratulations to Danny Wells for being selected for a Marine Biology Lab summer course

Niles West High School students, mentored by Andrew Younger, get invited to the Illinois State Science fair and the Intel International Science and Engineering fair in Los Angeles. Good Luck!

 NU Synthetic Biology highlighted on university home page Read More

Dr. Leonard and Northwestern University co-host UK-US workshop on Synthetic Biology