Professor of Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Material Sciences & Medicine, Distinguished Professor of Translational Research, BUnano Director
Joined November 2015
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9 Jul 2024
Drs. Wong & Douam & our teams are excited to share our paper in @NatureBiotech reporting on how modified self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) enables potent low dose vaccines, because unlike mRNA, saRNA is functional for a month. rdcu.be/dM45t @BostonU_BME @neidl @BUCollegeofENG
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Jun 2
Excited about the publication in @biomaterials about clickable polyamidosaccharides from our lab: a breakthrough in synthetic polysaccharide mimetics. #breastcancer . Bravo Kaitlynn, Maddie, Zoe, and Christian @BUChemistry @BUexperts doi.org/10.1039/D5BM01613D
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Apr 14
Today, NSF announced it has made offers & will award 2,500 Graduate Research Fellowships for the 2026-2027 academic year to outstanding graduate students across the U.S. pursuing research-based degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. bit.ly/4cpAHBO
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Apr 10
A remarkable meeting of @NSF #Trailblazer EngineeringImpact Award recipients. Exciting discussions for PIs and their trainees . @BostonU_BME @BU_MSE #proudtoBU
Johns Hopkins hosted the first-ever NSF Trailblazer Workshop, bringing together the inaugural cohorts of NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award recipients alongside selected trainees, industry leaders, and policy stakeholders. inbt.jhu.edu/johns-hopkins-t…
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Apr 10
Great ORS 2026 meeting. Congrats to Erik, Jacob and Seongjue on their oral presentations and to Henry, Dev, Bor-Lin, and Christian in their poster presentations. @ORSsociety #ors2026 @BostonU_BME @BIDMCSurgery @NazarianLab @Christian_D19
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Feb 9
Excited to share our review on advancements in therapeutic applications of HA-based biomaterials @ChemRev . Great collab w/ @niu_group Prof. Niu & his students, Na-Chuan Jiang & Poom Ungolan, & one of my students, Kaitlynn Sockett. #hyaluronicacid
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1 Nov 2025
Happy Halloween from the Grinstaff Group - our annual costume surprise was a great success
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BUnano Center director @Grinstaff and former BUnano alumni Dr. Brett Tingley and Dr. Andrew Martin and Dr. Aaron Colby collaborated on a recent publication on using nanoparticles for antiviral therapy for coronavirus infections life-science-alliance.org/co…
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13 Jun 2025
Congratulations to Dr Brett Tingley, the lab’s most recent @BostonU_BME PhD who successfully defended his dissertation “Therapeutic TAC-nology & Targeted Drug Delivery for Precision Medicines”. He will be joining our group as a Postdoctoral Associate . #proudtoBU
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29 May 2025
Extremely honored to be inducted into @CRSScience College of Fellows in recognition of my work on drug delivery & novel materials, and their translation toward diverse biomedical applications . #crs2025 @BUCollegeofENG @BUexperts #proudtoBU
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13 May 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Joshua McGee on brilliantly defending his dissertation “Overcoming The Innate Sensing Of Self-Amplifying RNA For Improved Vaccines & Therapeutics”. #proudtoBU @BostonU_BME #saRNA
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5 Apr 2025
Congratulation to Dr. Sara El-Arid, our newest Ph.D. who brilliantly defended her dissertation “Development of scalable synthetic methods to access architecturally complex polymer materials”. She will join Dr. Amanda Garner’s lab as postdoc @UMichPharmacy @BUChemistry #proudtoBU
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Thanks for highlighting our work! @Grinstaff @BergholtLab
🚨 April #OAC #EditorsChoice #BasicScience 🚨
This work by Kazemi et al. demonstrates how Raman arthroscopy is a transformative tool to evaluate, monitor, and treat cartilage injuries. @Albrolab @Grinstaff
Read more here 🔗 buff.ly/i55dzvl
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2 Apr 2025
Congratulations to Wilson Wong, member of the Class of 2025 of the AIMBE College of Fellows!
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4 Apr 2025
Congrats to Christian, Anisha, & Taylor for their @ACS_AMI paper
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They report a novel dual purpose nanoparticle which lubricates & protects cartilage & is a diagnostic probe for differentiating health from degraded cartilage using computed tomography.
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17 Mar 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Christian DeMoya on the brilliant defense of his dissertation titled “Addressing the pathological mechanisms of osteoarthritis using rationally designed biomaterials”,
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12 Feb 2025
Last day of #ORS2025 . Exciting meeting with former postdoc Dr Janne Mäkelä of @UniEastFinland chairing a session and Erik Ersland of @AlbroLab delivering his talk on new results using Raman spectroscopy in horses to evaluate cartilage quality and repair success . @BuMechE
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11 Feb 2025
Great talks and posters by Sadat and Dev @AlbroLab . Wonderful to meet up at @ORSsociety poster session with Dr Brad Nelson who is doing amazing work at @CSUVetMedBioSci #ORS2025
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5 Feb 2025
Huge thanks to INRAD for bringing the now FDA-approved Trilogy Breast Tissue Marker to market! Exciting past work by Dr. Kaplan & Dr. Bloch! 🔬📢 doi.org/10.1007/s00330-015-3… This is 4th #GrinstaffLab clinical product - research that improves clinical care #proudtoBU #BreastCancer
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