DOOLING LAB

Second-year graduate student Afra Azim presented a poster on her research on macrophage phagocytosis of cohesive structures at the UH Drug Discovery Institute Annual Symposium.

The group has received a grant from the Convergent Science Cancer Consortium involving researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, and UH. Our pilot project is focused on the role of …

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 …

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 …

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.

Tasnim Ahmed has started in the ChBE PhD program and will be joining the group. Welcome Tasnim! 

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 …

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 …