DOOLING LAB

Larry presented at CellBio 2025 – the annual meeting for the American Society for Cell Biology – in Philadelphia, PA and caught up with current and former Discher lab members.

LSAMP Fellow Maryam Mirjalili won the award for Best Poster at Houston City College STEM Day held on November 6th. Congrats on a fantastic and well-deserved achievement!!

Larry presented at the 2025 AIChE Meeting in Boston, MA in the Cancer and the Tumor Immune Microenvironment Technical Session that was part of Area 15D/E programming and then at the 2025 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer 40th Anniversary Conference in National Harbor, MD. Both were fantastic meetings! 

Afra, Johncarlo, Tasnim, Luna, Zaid, Ali, and Larry participated in Energy Day on Oct 18 at Sam Houston Park. Our demos of falling ball viscometers and wind-up turtle races in liquids with different viscosities seemed to be a hit with attendees! Photos to come…

Larry presented in the Mechanobiology to Mechanomedicine special session at the 2025 BMES Meeting in San Diego, CA.

Thanks to the session organizers for the invitation and for a great session.

Afra was selected to attend the BioPACIFIC Summer School on Biomaterials at UCLA & UCSB this summer with a full scholarship. Congrats and thank you to the BioPACIFIC for offering this amazing opportunity!

Larry participated in the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute Synthetic and Systems Approaches to Interrogate Spatiotemporal Processes in Cancer Initiation. It was a fantastic week of brainstorming new directions for cancer research!

Larry was selected to give a talk at the Phagocytes Gordon Research Conference that took place in Waterville Valley, NH from June 1-6. This was an amazing week of all things phagocytosis. Looking forward to the next iteration in two years time!

The group has received a grant from the Immune Cell Engineering Consortium involving researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center and UH. Our pilot project is focused on how spatial organization of macrophages can improve cancer immunotherapy. We are excited to be part of this interdisciplinary team bring innovative approaches to next generation cell therapies.