The 2026 JHSOM Young Investigator Awards are announced! Our Christine Wei received The Mette Strand Research Award! Young Investigators’ Day

By Johnny Moseman / February 16, 2026 Engineering More Durable and Potent mRNA Nanoparticles for Vaccines and Cancer Therapy Johns Hopkins University researchers

Happy Holiday, Mao Lab!

Yining Zhu joins Forbes Science class of 2026 Yining Zhu, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology and a 2025 graduate

By Johnny Moseman / November 12, 2025 A team of Johns Hopkins engineers has leveraged a machine learning model to identify lipid nanoparticle

Join us in celebrating Dr. Joseph Choy, who successfully defended his PhD thesis today! Throughout his time in the lab, … Read More

We are proud to share that Jessica L. Stelzel and Yining Zhu, members of the Mao Lab in Biomedical Engineering … Read More

A huge congratulations to Dr. Yining Zhu for successfully giving his public PhD thesis defense today! This milestone marks the … Read More

This week, we gathered for a heartfelt lab dinner to celebrate Dr. Jiayuan (Jarvis) Kong on his graduation and to … Read More

Our Doctor of Engineering student Rickey Egan received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) Fellowship. The National Science … Read More

Congratulations to our abstract presenters! … Read More

Mao Lab undergraduate student Enoch Toh has been named a 2025 Goldwater Scholar, one of the nation’s most prestigious awards … Read More

  Happy holidays, Mao Lab! … Read More

A team of Johns Hopkins researchers discovered that adjusting the thickness of cell culture media — the fluids cells inhabit … Read More

Congratulations to our abstract presenters! … Read More

The Green Lab Certification process empowers JHU scientists to minimize the environmental footprint of their laboratories. By implementing tailored best … Read More

Congratulations to all the abstract presenters! Oral Presenters: Leo Cheng, Jinghan Lin, Xiang Liu, Jingyao Ma, Enoch Toh, Yining Zhu … Read More

The 2024 JHSOM Young Investigator Awards are announced! Our Yining Zhu received The Hans J. Prochaska Research Award! Young Investigators’ … Read More

Congratulations to Prof. Hai-Quan Mao, who has been elected to the rank of National Academy of Inventors Fellow! The NAI … Read More

Congratulations to Mao Lab Ph.D. candidate Joseph Choy (left in the picture), who has been named as the recipient of … Read More

Cheers to the new school year! … Read More

Mao Lab Ph.D. candidate Jessica Stelzel has been selected as an ARCS Foundation Scholar. ARCS Scholar Awards recognize outstanding students … Read More

Mao lab Ph.D. candidate Yining Zhu‘s paper “Lipid Nanoparticle Composition Shapes Immune Response to mRNA Vaccine and Potency of Anticancer … Read More

Mao Lab Ph.D. candidate Joseph Choy has received the George M.L. Sommerman Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistant Award recognizing “excellence in … Read More

Mao Lab’s 2022 NSF REU intern Christine Wei received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) Fellowship. The … Read More

Mao lab Ph.D. student Natalie K. Livingston received an NIH Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Grant Award (F31) for her work in … Read More

Mao lab Ph.D. student Joseph Choy received a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarship – … Read More

(L-R): Mao lab undergraduate students Bruce Enzmann, Anson Zhou, Michael Lan, and Juan Diego Carrizo Mao lab undergraduate students Bruce … Read More

Today, Whiting School of Engineering Dean Ed Schlesinger announced the recipients of the 2021 Convocation Awards, highlighting the achievements of … Read More

Mao lab undergraduate students Siddharth Iyer, Jasmine Hu, Mathias Insley, Diane Lee, and Eric Lin have been selected as winners of

Bruce Enzmann, Michael Lan, and Anson Zhou have been announced as winners of the $10,000 “Cure it!” 2021 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

Image credit: Johns Hopkins Department of Materials Science & Engineering Mao lab alum Siddharth Iyer and current researcher at the Johns Hopkins Institute for … Read More

Mao lab undergraduate student Bruce Enzmann has been selected as a Goldwater Scholar. Established in 1986, the Goldwater Scholarship was one of … Read More

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/scientists-advance-creation-of-artificial-lymph-node-to-fight-cancer-other-diseases “In a proof-of-principle study in mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report the creation of a specialized gel that … Read More

Established in 2000 by the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation, the Siebel Scholars program awards grants to 16 universities in … Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Ardona for being awarded as the 12th Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellow award (2018-2020)! … Read More

LifeSprout in FastForward as a TTEC spinoff is highlighted in the newest JHU Engineering magazine! ” Tech Venturers— who are at … Read More

Congratulations to Talia Kirschbaum and her team at AssistENT for winning silver at 2017 CIC! Winners were selected based on degree of originality and … Read More

Hopkins startup looks to help regrow human tissue with new technology … Read More

Congratulations to Greg Howard, BME Ph.D. student for receiving the NSF GRFP award! … Read More

Congratulations to John Hickey, BME Ph.D. candidate in being awarded the MW/ARCS foundation scholarship for 2017-2018! … Read More

Antibiotic Coating Prevents Orthopaedic Joint Infections in Animals “Johns Hopkins researchers have designed a thin, biodegradable plastic coating for metal … Read More

LifeSprout – Bringing soft Tissue Reconstruction Alternative to Market “The team developed a nanofiber-hydrogel composite material that immediately restores three-dimensional … Read More

Congratulations Dr. Charles Hu for a successful thesis defense! … Read More

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