News – Harth Research Group

In the News

August 07, 2017
The Harth Lab has moved to the University of Houston – more updates to come

June 23, 2017
Kelly Gilmore successfully defended her thesis and is now working as a Principal Scientist at Eco Labs. Congratulations!

June 21, 2017
Michael Lampley passed his Qualifying Exam! Congratulations

June 12, 2017
Eva has been admitted as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry and is entitled to use the designatory letters FRSC. Thank you!

April 27, 2017
Laken Kendrick-William’s JOVE paper accepted. Congratulations!

April 21, 2017
7 patents of the Harth patent family were sold or licensed today!

March 09, 2017
5th issued patent for the Harth Group: 9,580,548 “Polycarbonate Containing Compounds and Methods Related Thereto”

January 04, 2017
Breyinn Loftin joins Harth Research group. Welcome to the group!

November 22, 2016
Laken Kendrick passes her Preliminary Exam. Congratulations !!

November 12, 2016
Michael Marin passes his Qualifying Exam in Chemical Engineering. Congratulations!

November 01, 2016
Jake passes his Qualifying Exam. Congratulations!

August 23, 2016
Dain Beezer delivers excellent talk at the ACS in Philadephia!

August 21, 2016
Jake wins the “2016 Outstanding POLY Poster Award” at the ACS in Philadelphia!

August 02, 2016
Eva is now on Twitter as well. Group news and other updates are posted @HarthEva
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July 28, 2016
VINSE featured our review article in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. Thank you!
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July 11, 2016
Eva presents invited lecture at the Warwick Polymer Conference 2016 #warpol16
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July 10, 2016
Jake Lockhart and Dain Beezer published article about “One-pot Nanogels via liposome master templates for dual drug delviery” in the Journal of Controlled Release
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June 10, 2016
Ben, Michael (both) and Anisse published a paper “Precise Microscale Polymeric Networks through Piezoelectronic Inkjet Printing” in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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May 29, 2016
Dain Beezer published a paper about the “Post-polymerization modification of branched polyglycidol with N-Hydroxy phthalimide” in the Journal of Polymer Science Part A – Polymer Chemistry
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April 15, 2016
Eva gives keynote lecture at the 14th European Symposium on Controlled Drug Delivery in Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands
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March 04, 2016
Ben Spears’ and Michael Marin’s paper on “Aqueous Epoxide Ring Opening Polymerization” called AEROP published in Macromolecules
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December 09, 2015
Michael Lampley passes his Preliminary Examination. Congratulations!

December 04, 2015
Kelly Gilmore’s and Michael Lampley’s review article published in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Theme Issue: Delivery of Multi-modal Therapeutics for Synergistic Therapy
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December 01, 2015
Book Chapter published in Nitroxide Mediated Polymerization: From Fundamentals to Applications in Materials Science, edited by Didier Gigmes
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November 04, 2015
Benjamin Spears defends successfully his Thesis and started at SeLux Diagnostics, Inc. Congratulations and Good Luck!

October 19, 2015
Laken Kendrick joins the Harth group! Welcome to the group and we are glad to have you!

September 03, 2015
Jake’s, David’s and Dain’s paper published in the Journal of Controlled Release

August 21, 2015
Michael passed the Preliminary Exam in the Engineering Department. Well done, Michael. Congratulations!

August 21, 2015
Kelly wins the prestigious Mitchum Warren Fellowship from the Department of Chemistry for her excellence in research and teaching. Congratulations, Kelly!

August 17, 2015
Eva presents invited lecture at the 250th American Chemical Society National Meeting in Boston, MA

August 12, 2015
Ben passes the Independent Research Proposal Exam (IRP). Congratulations!

August 06, 2015
Eva gives invited lecture at 2# Fusion Functional Polymeric Materials Conference in Ascot, UK
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July 23, 2015
Eva gives presentation of laboratory’s work at TU Chemnitz, Germany.

July 14, 2015
Eva gives keynote lecture at the 35th APS meeting at the Gold Coast, Australia.
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June 17, 2015
Eva participates in the GRC Polymers conference as discussion leader, Mount Holyoke College, MA.
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June 15, 2015
Eva gives invited lecture at 17th International Symposium on Drug Delivery Systems in Salt Lake City, UT.
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June 15, 2015
Jake enters co-op with ExxonMobil Research & Engineering in Paulsboro, NJ. Have a good time over there!

June 12, 2015
NSF Graduate Fellow Laken Kendrick starts her summer rotation in the Harth group! Welcome to Vandy.
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June 01, 2015
Michael Lampley joins Harth Research group. Welcome to the group, Michael.

April 24, 2015
Kelly passed her Qualifier. Congratulations!

January 20, 2015
Paper in collaboration with the David Calkins group (VUMC) “Nanosponge-Mediated Drug Delivery Lowers Intraocular Pressure” published in Translational Vision Science and Technology, TVST (ARVO journal)
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November 21, 2014
Jake passes his Preliminary Exam. Congratulations!

November 16, 2014
David’s hydrogel paper “Semibranched polyglycidols as “fillers” in polycarbonate hydrogels to tune hydrophobic drug release”, in collaboration with Muthu’s group (UMASS Amherst), accepted in Polymer Chemistry.
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September 02, 2014
David Stevens lands postdoctoral position with the Nanotechnology Characterization Lab (NCL) at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Congratulations!!!
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August 01, 2014
Summer Intern Elizabeth Delesky (U Florida Gainesville) wins Poster Award “Best Layout” in the VINSE Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
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July 11, 2014
Dain passes his Qualifying Exam. Well done. Congratulations!!

July 07, 2014
Paper by David Stevens and Jean de la Croix Ndong, in collaboration with the Florent Elefteriou group (VUMC), accepted in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research and is highlighted in the ASBMR e-News (17 July)

July 01, 2014
Eva gives talk at the 5th Nanomedicine Conference in Sydney, Australia

June 04, 2014
David Stevens graduates with a PhD in Chemistry from the IGP program based in the Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt Medical School. Congratulations, David !!

June 02, 2014
Eva gives talk at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, University of Technology, Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven, NL

May 22, 2014
Eva gives talk at Polymer Club Chemistry Insight Day: Healthcare to Solar Cells, University of Warwick, UK

May 19, 2014
Eva gives a talk at the IMM Symposium, Nijmegen, NL

May 14, 2014
Paper by Ben Spears in collaboration with the Jamie Grunlan group (TAM) published in Macromolecular Rapid Communication and featured on the cover of Issue 10, Volume 35

May 01, 2014
David’s and Kelly’s paper published in Polymer Chemistry and is “Paper of the Week”
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April 16, 2014
Eva starts sabbatical stay with Professor Jan van Hest at the Radboud University, Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM), Nijmegen, NL

April 10, 2014
Eva gives talk at Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, IPREM-EPCP, Pau, FR

April 04, 2014
Eva gives talk at the Unversité Bordeaux, Laboratoire de Chimie des Polyméres Organiques, Bordeaux, FR

April 01, 2014
Eva gives talk at the Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire Equipe CROPS, Marseille, FR

March 18, 2014
Eva gives talk at the 247th ACS National Meeting in Dallas TX

March 11, 2014
Eva gives talk at the Institut Charles Sadron (ICS), Université Strasbourg, FR

March 06, 2014
Eva gives talk at the Université Paris-Sud 11, Faculte Pharmacie, Châtenay-Malabry, FR

March 04, 2014
Eva gives talk at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UPMC, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moleculaire (IPCM) Chimie des Polymeres, Paris, FR

February 17, 2014
Eva starts sabbatical stay with Julien Nicolas, CNRS researcher in the research group of Professor Patrick Couvreur at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Châtenay-Malabry, University Paris-Sud 11, France