Kim Lab News Archive 2024
Alex Guirgues, Mason Pentes, and Carly Schultz join the Kim Lab as new undergraduate research assistants. Welcome, Alex, Mason, and Carly!
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.
Congratulations to Wilmer Andújar for completing his M.S. Chemical Engineering. Now on to Ph.D.!
Loria DiMartino presents at UA SGPI Poster Competition and is awarded 1st place! Congratulations, Loria!
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.
John Kim co-directs 2024 UA ChBE Study Abroad Program with Shreyas Rao in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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!
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!
John Kim received the Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award by UA College of Engineering.
John Kim was awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award by UA’s Office for Undergraduate Research.
Bella Concannon received The University of Alabama’s Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award. Congratulations, Bella!
Kim Lab undergraduate researchers Ava Concannon, Bella Concannon, and Taylor Shnorbus presented at the 2024 Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity Conference.
John Kim and Alex Avera presented at the annual national ACS BIOT meeting.
John Kim was invited to attend ACS Leadership Institute.
Collaboration project on the delivery of nanoparticles in brain injury models with previous visiting scholar Dr. Dong Woon Kim was published in Nanoscale.
John Kim becomes Chair of American Chemical Society Division of Biochemical Technology.
Last updated: 2026-09-09