IN THE NEWS
Oct 2024 - Lyla’s work on new water-enhancing gels for protecting homes and structures from wildfire was featured on CBS news!
Aug 2024 - Check out the news coverage of Ben and Julie’s work on developing novel adjuvants for vaccines, including from Stanford Report and GEN News!
Aug 2024 - Check out the news coverage of Lyla’s work on developing heat-activated silica aerogels for protection structures from wildfire, including from Stanford Report, Interesting Engineering, KRON4, SciTechDaily, Yahoo News, Knowridge Science Reports, and New Atlas!
May 2024 - Congrats to Noah for winning First Prize for his poster presentation at this year’s Stanford Polymer Collective Annual Poster Symposium!
Mar 2024 - Check out this beautiful video coverage on Andrea d’Aquino’s work by Schmidt Science Fellows!
Jan 2024 - Check out the news coverage on Andrea’s work at Scripps News!
Jan 2024 - Fun day doing some news interviews on Andrea’s months-long-acting GLP-1 treatments!
Dec 2023 - Andrea’s work on novel months-long-acting GLP-1 drug products for treatment of diabetes and weight management chosen as the top story of the year for Stanford News!
Nov 2023 - Congrats to Andrea for the Stanford News coverage on her new work on developing a depot technology to enable months-long-acting GLP-1 drug products for treatment of diabetes and weight management!
Aug 2023 - Awesome to see Andrea’s work being covered by the Schmidt Science Fellows crew!
June 2023 - Ben’s work on single-administration SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in collaboration with the King Lab at the University of Washington was highlighted at Wiley’s Advanced Science News!
May 2023 - Eric awarded the Biomaterials Science Lectureship for 2023!
April 2023 - Eric awarded the Society for Biomaterials Young Investigator Award for 2023
April 2022 - Caitlin and Joseph’s biopharmaceutical stabilization technology and ultrafast insulin drug candidate are being commercialized by Surf Bio, which just closed their $16 million Series Seed financing!
April 2022 - Abby’s work on CAR-T therapy getting a lot of news coverage from Stanford, Futurity, SciTechDaily, GEN, Sanidad, Scienmag, Inside Precision Medicine, Bioengineer, and Technology Networks.
Jan 2022 - Caitlin’s work on insulin formulation was featured in C&E News’ special issue on Insulin’s Second Century!
Dec 2021 - Congrats to Celine for knocking it out of the park with a great thesis defense!
June 2021 - Catie, Abby, and Santi’s JoVE video finally posted online!
Jun 2021 - The Phos-Chek FORTIFY product that was developed based on Anthony’s research into novel fire retardant technologies was highlighted by KSBY6 News!
Jun 2021 - Eric’s talk on the development of ultra-fast and ultra-stable insulin formulations highlighted by Close Concerns!
Feb 2021 - Anthony’s work on dynamic hydrogels exhibiting temperature-invariant mechanical properties highlighted in New Atlas, Science Daily, Scienmag, Medical News, Phys Org, and Mirage News.
Jan 2021 - Lyndsay’s work on using our hydrogels to prevent post-operative peritoneal adhesions covered by Advanced Science News!
Jan 2021 - Congrats to Santi for being awarded this killer trophy from the Columbia University Department of Biomedical Engineering as a part of their Rising Stars in Engineering in Health symposium series!
Dec 2020 - Caitlin’s collaborative work with Tom Soh’s lab developing a Real-Time ELISA covered in Futurity, Gizmag, The Financial, MedicalXpress, Daily Geek Show, and New Atlas.
Oct 2020 - Eric was featured on Fortune’s podcast Brainstorm talking about our new technology and approach to wildfire prevention in hotspots subject to routine ignitions.
Sept 2020 - Eric was featured on Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg’s podcast Solvable talking about our new technology for wildfire prevention.
Sept 2020 - Gillie Roth’s work developing slow delivery technologies to improve humoral immune responses to vaccines was covered by the American Chemical Society press center!
July 2020 - Joseph Mann and Caitlin Maikawa put together a great video to describe our new ultra-fast insulin formulation.
July 2020 - Joseph Mann and Caitlin Maikawa’s work developing an ultra-fast insulin covered by US News & World Report, National Academy of Engineering, Futurity, SciTech Daily, EurekaAlert!, Consumer Health Day, Fierce Biotech, Medical Press, Weird News, New Atlas, Drug Target Review, News Break, MedPage Today, Industry Leaders Mag, Home Health Choices, Medical Xpress, CSIRO RAMP, Tech News Lit, X-mol, The Healthy Fold, and GEN News
June 2020 - Congrats to Gillie A. Roth on the successful defense!
June 2020 - Congrats to Doreen Chan on the successful defense!
June 2020 - Congrats to Caitlin Maikawa for being awarded a Centennial Teaching Assistant Award from the Stanford Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning!
June 2020 - Congrats to Anthony Yu on the successful defense!
May 2020 - Caitlin Maikawa’s work on developing a novel Insulin-Amylin co-formulation for improved diabetes management was covered by Home Health Choices, News Medical & Life Sciences, and SOCHOB!
May 2020 - Eric Appel and Chris Field from the Woods Institute wrote an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times discussing the how the COVID-19 pandemic is making us more vulnerable to wildfires and what we can do about it.
May 2020 - Check out the News & Views article by Kim Henriksen and Morten A. Karla from Nordic Bioscience Biomarkers and Research in Denmark covering Caitlin Maikawa’s work developing a new diabetes drug.
May 2020 - Stanford News covered Caitlin Maikawa’s work developing a new approach to co-formulation of insulin and amylin analogues to make a dual hormone replacement therapy that can potentially improve diabetes management.
May 2020 - Congrats to Lyndsay Stapleton on the successful defense!
May 2020 - The start-up that is commercializing our fire prevention technology, LaderaTECH, was acquired by Perimeter Solutions! Check out the press release HERE. From Eddie Goldberg, the CEO of Perimeter Solutions: “We saw the FORTIFY® technology as an opportunity for us to deploy superior fire prevention and protection performance and to expand the number of places we can put our solutions to work helping to prevent and fight wildfires.”
April 2020 - LaderaTECH awarded the 2020 Best Venture Award for Cleantech Innovators from the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for development of the FORTIFY® fire prevention technology!
March 2020 - Our fire prevention technology and the start-up that is commercializing the technology, LaderaTECH, was featured in the Stanford Office of Technology Licensing FY2019 Annual Report.
January 2020 - Gillie and Eric featured on the Netflix docuseries Pandemic alongside Jake Glanville and Sarah Ives from DistributedBio! The team at DistributedBio have developed a new influenza vaccine that has amazing breadth of protection, making it the main feature of the documentary. We are collaborating to use our sustained release hydrogel technology to improve the potency and durability of the vaccine responses.
January 2020 - Excited to see Abby Grosskopf’s cover image for her BioTM article go live! The image below shows a dendritic cell being activated by adjuvant-containing nanoparticles.
January 2020 - Excited to see our wildfire prevention technology featured by the Associated Press!
January 2020 - A handful more new outlets cover our wildfire prevention materials, including Crescent Vale, the Science Times, Interesting Engineering, and Wildfire Today.
January 2020 - Excited to see Emily Gale’s cover image for her Advanced Therapeutics article go live! The image below shows a dendritic cell being activated by adjuvant-containing nanoparticles.
December 2019 - Anthony Yu’s work is featured in Paris Match magazine!
December 2019 - Excited to welcome two new members, Ben (BioE) and Olivia (MSE), to the lab!
November 2019 - We were featured on CBS SF Bay Area news!
November 2019 - Anthony’s paper on wildfire prevention continues to get coverage in the news! The article was covered in The Stanford Daily, and Patch.
October 2019 - Eric was interviewed live on a radio show by the National Academy of Engineering and 4 Awesome Discoveries from the National Science Foundation.
October 2019 - Anthony’s paper on wildfire prevention in PNAS covered by Sci City, Suddeutsche Zeitung, and The Epoch Times.
October 2019 - Eric was interviewed live on Top of Mind with Julie Rose on Sirius XM radio.
October 2019 - Eric was interviewed live on The Weather Channel!
October 2019 - Gillie Roth (formerly Agmon) won the Grand Poster Prize at the Department of Bioengineering annual retreat.
October 2019 - Anthony Yu’s fire prevention work featured on the cover of the Woods Institute website!
October 2019 - KQED interviewed Anthony Yu and Eric to discuss our new gel-like retardants and their utility in preventing fires in high-risk landscapes. Check out the “listen” button at the top of the page.
October 2019 - Anthony Yu’s new gel-like retardant fluids that can potentially act as vaccines for prophylactic prevention of wildfires covered in Wired, C&E News, The Independent, New Scientist, La Vanguardia, La Nacion, ABC 7 News, Ars Technica, Wildfire Today, Inverse, Smithsonian Magazine, United Nations Department of Disaster Prevention, Stanford Woods Institute, Fast Company, KQED, SciGlo, United Press International, XinhuaNet, Environmental News Network, Science Alert, Gizmodo, Mic, Futurity, Courthouse News, CNET, Daily Mail UK, ZME Science, Engineering360, SFGate, High Plain Public Radio, Digital Trends, Republic World, Lab Roots, Edgy, Yahoo! Finance, Lipstick Alley, Cosmos Magazine, Dual Dove, Long Room, Codigo Cosmico, Smart Devices News, Trillions, KUNC, among others…
September 2019 - Congrats to Lyndsay Stapleton and Anthony Yu for being selected as Accel Innovation Scholars!!
August 2019 - Check out our Behind the Paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering describing our work on hydrogels that inhibit the formation of post-operative adhesions in a large animal model of cardiopulmonary bypass surgery
August 2019 - Lyndsay Stapleton’s work in Nature Biomedical Engineering featured on the cover!! The image below is a mash-up of a heart that was treated with our gels (left) or not (right) after dissection. The gel-treated heart was completely free of adhesions, whereas the untreated heart had severe scarring.
August 2019 - Congrats to Ashley Sabino for placing in the competition for Best Research for the Summer REU program!!
July 2019 - Gillie Agmon and Eneko Axpe chosen as the next co-chairs of the Gordon Research Seminar on Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
July 2019 - Gillie Agmon selected to showcase her work on sustained delivery vaccines on the big stage at the Gordon Research Conference on Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
June 2019 - Eneko Axpe and Doreen Chan are Finalists in the Stanford 8th Annual Art of Science Competition for their work entitled "Listen to Mars"
May 2019 - Caitlin Maikawa awarded a Bio-X Bowes Graduate Student Fellowship!
March 2019 - Our research on development of ultra-fast insulin formulations covered by the American Diabetes Association
February 2019 - Gillie Agmon won the poster prize for the Annual Bio-X Symposium!
January 2019 - Eneko Axpe won 3rd place in the NASA Human Research Program Postdoctoral Fellow Poster Award
January 2019 - Eneko Axpe awarded a Marie Curie Individual Global Fellowship
January 2019 - Eneko Axpe awarded a NASA Ideas Competition Award - TRISH from Sci-Fi to Science Fact on his idea to use injectable hydrogels for bone healing in astronauts
August 2018 - Congrats to Karime Laborin for winning the Best Research Award for the Summer REU program through the Materials Science & Engineering Department!!
May 2018 - Caitlin Maikawa awarded an NSERC Post-Graduate Scholarship!
April 2018 - Gillie and Anthony take first and second place poster prizes at the Stanford Polymer Collective Annual Symposium!!
March 2018 - Professor Appel is awarded a Junior Faculty Development Award from the American Diabetes Association.
September 2017 - Anthony Yu awarded an Eastman Kodak Graduate Student Fellowship!
March 2017 - Doreen Chan's paper on single-chain nanoparticles from controlled drug delivery is published in Biomacromolecules.
December 2016 - The Appel lab awarded a Research Starter Grant from the Pharmaceutics division of the PhRMA Foundation.
November 2016 - Anthony Yu's paper on biomimetic moldable hydrogels prepared on scale is published in PNAS and featured in the Stanford News!
September 2016 - Professor Appel is named a 2016 Hellman Faculty Fellow!
September 2015 - Long-term delivery of therapeutics from Polymer-Nanoparticle (PNP) hydrogels featured in The Economist.
February 2015 - New Polymer-Nanoparticle (PNP) hydrogels published in Nature Communications and featured in MIT News, Fierce Biotech Research, Science Direct, WebCulture, Science Newsline, Medical Daily, Tech Times, NewsWise, Medical News Today, Mad Gadget, Med Device Online, Boston Business Journal, Med Gadget, Txchnologist, materials360online, and Popular Science.
August 2013 - Eric awarded the Jon Weaver PhD Prize from the Macro Group UK and the Royal Society of Chemistry
March 2013 - Eric awarded a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (National Institute of Health)
February 2013 - Eric awarded a Post-doctoral Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust (UK)
November 2012 - Eric awarded a Graduate Student Award at the fall meeting of the Materials Research Society
Summer 2012 - Sustained release of drugs from cucurbit[8]uril-based hydrogels is published in Biomaterials and featured in the Cambridge News, The Hindu, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Network, PharmTech, ScienceNewsLine, Science Daily, BioPharma Reporter, NewsRX, Fierce Drug Delivery, and Bio Medicine
Summer 2012 - Cucurbit[8]uril-based hydrogels featured in the Summer edition of Chem@Cam magazine from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge