Kim Lab News Archive 2024
2024
- 8/26/24 - Alex Guirgues, Mason Pentes, and Carly Schultz join the Kim Lab as new undergraduate research assistants. Welcome, Alex, Mason, and Carly!
- 8/6/24 - John Kim, Ryan Summers, and Shreyas Rao were awarded a new National Science Foundation funding (NSF-OISE/IRES #2419629) to direct an international undergraduate research experience in Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (iBET), Oeiras, Portugal.
- 8/3/24 - Congratulations to Wilmer Andújar for completing his M.S. Chemical Engineering. Now on to Ph.D.!
- 7/25/24 - Loria DiMartino presents at UA SGPI Poster Competition and is awarded 1st place! Congratulations, Loria!
- 7/24/24 - John Kim presents at ECI Biochemical and Molecular Engineering XXIII: Accelerating Biotech Solutions to aid a Changing World in Dublin, Ireland. He also had the opportunity to catch up with his extended Jay Bailey academic family.
- 6/29/24 - John Kim co-directs 2024 UA ChBE Study Abroad Program with Shreyas Rao in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 6/25/24 - Spenser Brown (PhD '23)'s project on fluid shear stress-induced extracellular vesicle-mediated changes of breast cancer cell stemness is published in Biomolecules with co-authors Maggie Radcliffe, Joseph Danner, Wilmer Andújar Cruz, Kim Lackey, Han-A Park, and Steven Weinman. Congratulations!
- 5/20/24 - Loria DiMartino (University of Southern Mississippi) joins the Kim Lab as a Strategic Graduate Partnerships Initiative (SGPI) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Scholar. Welcome, Loria!
- 4/24/24 - John Kim received the Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award by UA College of Engineering.
- 4/12/24 - John Kim was awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award by UA's Office for Undergraduate Research.
- 4/2/24 - Bella Concannon received The University of Alabama's Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award. Congratulations, Bella!
- 3/26/24 - Kim Lab undergraduate researchers Ava Concannon, Bella Concannon, and Taylor Shnorbus presented at the 2024 Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity Conference.
- 3/18/24 - John Kim and Alex Avera presented at the annual national ACS BIOT meeting.
- 1/26/24 - John Kim was invited to attend ACS Leadership Institute.
- 1/3/24 - Collaboration project on the delivery of nanoparticles in brain injury models with previous visiting scholar Dr. Dong Woon Kim was published in Nanoscale.
- 1/1/24 - John Kim becomes Chair of American Chemical Society Division of Biochemical Technology.
Last updated: 26 Feb 2026