Congratulations to Tanya and Joe, who both took home poster prizes at this year’s ResearchFest!  

As of Aug. 25, 2017, the Farkas group has left its former home in the Lederle Graduate Research Tower for space in the Life Sciences Laboratories — come visit us on the 5th floor (between the Peyton and Lynch labs!)

Rising senior undergraduate student Jessica Furtado has received an Honors Research Grant to pursue her thesis research in the fall. Congrats!

Evelyn successfully defended her senior thesis at Mount Holyoke College! Nice work!

Jessica has received a Jessica Hayes Fellowship from the Biochemistry Department — YAY!

And — congratulations to all of the graduating seniors from the Farkas group!

Senior biochemistry student Will Chen received a Commonwealth Honors College Research Grant! Congrats Will!

Welcome to new chemistry graduate students Bishnu, Sujeewa, David, and Scott, who will be rotating in the group this fall!

Congratulations to Jordan, Joe, and Tanya on their ResearchFest poster presentations! Joe and Jordan both received outstanding poster awards! Nice work!

Simultaneous cytosolic delivery of a chemotherapeutic and siRNA using nanoparticle-stabilized nanocapsules: Joseph Hardie, Ying Jiang, Emily R Tetrault, Phaedra C Ghazi, Gulen Yesilbag Tonga, Michelle E Farkas and Vincent M Rotello

Check it out: doi:10.1088/0957-4484/27/37/374001

Welcome to Javier Mas Rosario, who will be participating in the SPUR/PREP post-baccalaureate program in the Farkas group at UMass in 2016-17!

Congratulations to graduate student Jordan Elliott on passing his original research proposal (ORP) examination and becoming a Ph.D. candidate!!!