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5th Annual Research Alumni Gathering 2017

Posted by on Jul 28, 2017 in Alumni, Posts, Student News

Research alumni, from the Class of 2011 to the Class of 2017, returned to the Fenway to meet the current undergraduate researchers, catch up with Dr. Gerdon, and catch up with each other. This is always a great opportunity, once a year, to make new introductions and to hear about the successes and challenges of science and life. It was so great to see...

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Publication!

Posted by on Jan 4, 2017 in Alumni, Posts, Student News

Congratulations to Keith and Krista, Sarah, Sam, and Hillary on their recent publication in Chemical Communications! They were able to develop and demonstrate the success of a new approach to DNA aptamer selection. This work has taken many years, but we finally have some interesting aptamer sequences. Prof. Padraig Deighan, in the Biology Department at...

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Publication!

Posted by on Sep 12, 2016 in Alumni, Posts

Congratulations to Chris, Tom, Jason, and Alex on their recent publication in Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces! This has been a great collaborative work with Henry Margolis and the Forsyth Institute and we’ve made some very interesting findings on the structure of amelogenin protein interactions with hydroxyapatite. “Dynamic interactions...

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Alumni Gathering 2016

Posted by on Jul 5, 2016 in Alumni, Posts

A big thanks to all those who made it out and to those who wished they could. It is great to see so many research alumni to hear their stories of success in the Boston area. It is equally great to hear from those in Connecticut, Jamaica, Atlanta, and elsewhere who couldn’t make it back to Fenway for a summer Thursday night. Keep the stories rolling...

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Aimee Sanford ’16 – Joins the CDC team

Posted by on Jun 7, 2016 in Alumni, Posts

Congrats to Aimee Sanford ’16 on graduation, earning Distinction in the Field, and on starting her internship this summer at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Aimee plans to show off her analytical chemistry skills!  

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Congrats to Kayla Vasconcellos ’12

Posted by on Feb 5, 2016 in Alumni, Posts

Congrats to Kayla! She will take new steps towards her dream of becoming a dentist, DDS, this summer. She’s been accepted to the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and can’t wait to get started. We hope that her work with nanoparticles and hydroxyapatite helped her along the way. Congrats...

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