News

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of our research work over the years by the following sources:

• National Science Foundation
• National Institutes of Health
• American Heart Association
• Concern Foundation
• Wendy Will Case Foundation
• The Thomas F. Jeffress and Kate Miller Memorial Trust
• Virginia Academy of Science
• Sigma Xi
• Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science at Virginia Tech Commonwealth
• Research Initiative at Virginia Tech
• 4-Virginia
• United Soybean Board

2023. Andrew Jelinsky has received the Robert Jones Undergraduate Research Excellence Award from the Biological Sciences Department. Congrats, Andrew!

2023. Austin Elliott has received the Stacey Smith Undergraduate Research Excellence Award from the Biological Sciences Department. Congrats, Austin!

2023. Tiffany Roach has been awarded the Graduate Student George E. & Hester B. Aker Fellowship. Congratulations, Tiffany! This is fantastic news!

2023. More about Tiffany. She received the best poster presentation award at the symposium organized by the Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics at Virginia Tech.

2023. Mahmudul Hasan published a review article in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Good job, Mahmudul!

2023. Ayo Okedigba published his studies about trypsin inhibitors at the ACS Food, Technology & amp; Science. Excellent news, Ayo!

2023. Elea received both the ICTAS and the FURF fellowships! Good job, Elea!

2023. We have received the United Soybean Board grant in collaboration with Bo Zhang, Haibo Huang, and Bingyu Zhao!

2023. We have also received the Virginia Academy of Science grant!

2023. Al Mercedes Casado (Williams College) performed research at our lab during this summer through support from the REU Center of Soft Matter and Biological Physics. You rocked, Al!