Congrats to @DavidIssadore & @JakeBrenner on winning the $80k NEMO Prize from @PennHealthTech! Their work on DNA delivery via lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) could enable self-administered, lasting treatments for chronic diseases like diabetes and cancer. bit.ly/4fmjyt4

As this presidential campaign comes to an end, let me say a few words to the folks who have not yet decided who they'll vote for – or who have decided to sit the election out:

This passage from Michelle Obama: "I hope you'll forgive me if I'm a little frustrated that some of us are choosing to ignore Donald Trump's gross incompetence while asking Kamala to dazzle us at every turn. I hope that you'll forgive me if I'm a little angry that we are indifferent to his erratic behavior. His obvious mental decline. His history as a convicted felon. A known slumlord. A predator found liable for sexual abuse. All of this while we pick apart Kamala's answers from interviews that he doesn't even have the courage to do, y'all."

I haven’t heard anyone explain the stakes of this election as powerfully as this.

Obama: When I was president, I had been talking to scientists for a while so during my last year in office, we put together a pandemic playbook for how to deal with the eventuality of a pandemic.. When Trump came in, we gave over this playbook and he threw it out. I want to be fair on this, no matter who was going to president, this was going to be a problem… But if you look at a country like Canada, their per capita death rate was 40% lower than here. So just do the math. That’s more than 400k people. People’s grandparents, people’s fathers, people’s moms who would’ve been alive if Trump had just paid attention and tried to follow the plan that we gave him. It might have been somebody in your family that could’ve been impacted. So, if somebody tells you that this doesn’t make a difference, having somebody competent who cares about you.. it does matter and at some point, it will make a difference to them

I could not be more proud that Stephanie Yang, a PhD student in our group, won best paper award this year at microTAS!!!!!! I think anyone who saw her talk this year will not be surprised by this news. Go Stephanie!

(This guy is an architect of Trump’s Project 2025, btw)

I look forward to using my new seasonings from Penzeys Spices in Pittsburgh at our next Sunday family dinner.

Professor @DavidIssadore of #PennBioengineering & @ESEatPenn will serve as Associate Director of Research Coordination for NSF AIRFoundry, a major new “BioFoundry” which will create molecules and nanoparticles to revolutionize RNA research. Read more: bit.ly/4dISfZ4

The @NSF AIRFoundry, backed by an $18M grant, will revolutionize RNA research with AI. Partners include Penn Engineering, @pennmedicine, @uprm, @DrexelEngr @ChildrensPhila, and InfiniFluidics. #NSFfunded bit.ly/3XkRWh7

Ultrasensitive quantification of PD-L1 extracellular vesicles in #melanoma patient plasma using a parallelized high throughput #droplet digital assay #OpenAccess from Hanfei Shen, Yasemin Atiyas, Zijian Yang and @DavidIssadore et al. @pennbioeng pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…

Josh Shapiro called Netanyahu "one of the worst leaders of all time." But anti-Israel activists have mobilized against him—and him alone—being on the Democratic ticket. I wrote about the campaign against Shapiro & the perverse politics of Jewish identity: theatlantic.com/politics/arc…

New #openaccess #research from James Eberwine, @DavidIssadore and co. points to distinct mechanisms of clonal expansion and segregation of #SNVs in different regions of the #mitochondrial #genome in individual #neurons and #astrocytes. bit.ly/3LNwUBn #heteroplasmy

Can’t stop thinking about why the Rittenhouse driver hasn’t been named or charged yet @PhillyMayor @DA_LarryKrasner like for real, what’s up?

Graphene Hall sensors are awesome for magnetic cytometry, but sensor performance can be highly variable. What if each sensor in an array was individually tunable to optimize its performance and minimize variability? Vasant Iyer's has you covered: lnkd.in/epnhmWPC

After a quick break, we’re back with Sydney Shaffer @‌sydshaffer @PennMedicine to talk about "Tracking cell state plasticity in injury and cancer.” She opens with an activity she does with her child—tracking biological changes through time using butterflies. #KIsymposium

Joyful scenes unfold at the 2024 Doctoral Commencement. Congratulations to all the new Penn Engineering graduates! #PennEngineeringProud