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Congratulations to Loran Gliford on being selected to be a trainee in the NIH T32 Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology (SB2) Training Program at BU! The training fellowship provides funding for the next two years.

We are very excited to extend a warm welcome to our Jackelyn (“Jacky”) Merida. Jacky joins us as part of the STEM Pathways program at BU. Maren Eltze will mentor Jacky as she works on her own research project.

Congratulations to former rotation student, Tori (Florence) Guerina. Tori has officially joined Meg Younger’s Lab in the Department of Biology. Onwards and upwards!

Congratulations to Kate Lee on completing her BS in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University! Well done!

We are very excited to extend a warm welcome to our newest graduate student. Loran Gliford joins us after completing a series of rotations through the Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry program at Boston University.

We are very excited to extend a warm welcome to our newest undergraduate researcher. Hanhminh Nguyen is currently in her junior year in the BME program at Boston University. Check out her profile on our People page!

The grant provides $50,000 over the next year to develop novel engineering tools for molecular characterization of circulating tumor DNA. The award is part of a three-year Institutional Research Grant awarded to Boston University to provide pilot funds for early-stage cancer research investigators.

Prof. Pratt will be discussion leader for the “Clinical Applications Toward Personalized Detection and Therapy” session at the Physical Science of Cancer Gordon Research Conference. The conference will be held Feb 5-10 at the Grand Galvez in Galveston, TX.

We are excited to host two new rotation students in the Pratt Lab. Welcome to Loran Gliford (BS Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island) and Tori Guerina (BS, Biology, University of Massachusetts, Lowell).

Effective November 17, 2022, Prof. Pratt received a secondary appointment of Assistant Professor, Hematology & Medical Oncology, Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.