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2025.6.26. Adam won the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship of 2025 as a research grant in Germany, which he declined after earning a Churchill scholarship earlier in the spring. Congratulations to Adam!

2025.4.3. Zhenzhen successfully passed her PhD thesis defense today. Congratulations to Dr. Zhang!

2025.1.29. Adam won the prestigious Churchill Scholarship of 2025. Each year, only 16 US students are selected to receive the scholarship to study Master of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Congratulations to Adam!

2024.11.12. Zhiyuan passed his PhD thesis defense today. Congratulations to Dr. Song and his newborn!

2024.10.9. Gangtong’s paper, “Deciphering the Morphological Difference of Amyloid-β Fibrils in Familial and Sporadic Alzheimer’s Diseases”, is now published in JCIM. Congratulations to Gangtong, Zhiyuan, and Yun Xu!

2024.8.26. Zhiyuan’s paper, “Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Fibril Catalyzes Amyloid-β Aggregation by Promoting Fibril Nucleation Rather than Direct Axial Growth”, is now accepted for publication in an Elsevier journal: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. Congratulations to Zhiyuan and all co-authors!

2024.7.23. Adam’s first first-authored research paper is now accepted for publication in ACS Chemical Neuroscience. Congratulations to Adam!

2024.3.29. Adam is the recipient of 2024 Goldwater scholarship. Congratulations to Adam! well done!

2024.1.18. Our joint study with Dr. David Leong at National University of Singapore and Dr. Pu-Chun Ke at Monash University, “Endothelial leakiness elicited by amyloid protein aggregation”, is now published in Nature Communications.

2023. 8.31. Our study on the direct observation of single-molecular fibril growth of IAPP fibrils with different morphologies in silico, first authored by Gangtong Huang, is now accepted for publication in JCIM. Congrats to Mr. Gangtong Huang!

2023. 8.15. Our joint paper with Dr. Pu-Chun Ke  and Dr. Guotao Peng groups, entitled “Spike Protein Fragments Promote Alzheimers Amyloidogenesis”, is now published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

2022.9.14. It is official! We just got awarded another 5-year R35 – Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA R35GM145409) – from NIGMS.

2022.8.13. Our joint work with Dr. Pu Chun Ke on nanoplastic particles causing vascular endothelial leakage, entitled “Anionic Nanoplastic Exposure Induces Endothelial Leakiness”, is now published in Nature Communications. Congratulations to the team!

2022.7.11. Our collaborative paper with Prof. Yunxiang Sun’s group on the microphase separation of suckerin self-assembly is now accepted for publication in Small. Congratulations to Prof. Sun!

2022.6.3. Nadav Benhamou Goldfajn, an NSF REU student worked in the lab last summer, published his first first-author paper in ACS Chemical Neuroscience on the sub-stoichiometric inhibition of amylin aggregation by insulin. Congratulations to Nadav!

2021.11.16. Yanting Xing successfully defended her PhD thesis today. Congratulations to Dr. Xing!

2021.7.21. “A Framework of Paracellular Transport via Nanoparticles-Induced Endothelial Leakiness”, co-authored by Myeongsang and Huayuan, is now accepted for publication in Advanced Science. Congratulations to the collaborative team!

2021.3.5. “Spontaneous Formation of β-sheet Nano-barrels during the Early Aggregation of Alzheimer’s Amyloid Beta”, a joint work by Clemson, Monash University, Ningbo University, and Southwest University, is now accepted for publication in Nano Today. Congratulations to Yunxiang and the collaborative team!

2020.12.24. “Amyloid Aggregation under the Lens of Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation”, first authored by Yanting, is now in press in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letter. Congratulations to Yanting, who also became a new mother recently!

2020.2.10. “Thermo- and pH-Responsive Fibrillization of Squid Suckerin A1H1 Peptide”, first authored by Yunxiang, is now accepted for publication in Nanoscale. Congratulations to Yunxiang, now an Associate Professor of Physics at Ningbo University!