We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Samuel Oliveira has been selected to receive a Director’s Fellowship from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)! This highly competitive continuation grant brings $302K in additional funding to our lab for another year. The Director’s Fellowship is an elite extension granted to only a small subset of top-tier DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) projects across the country. This follows a historic milestone in 2024, when Prof. Oliveira became...

We’re excited to share that Dr. Samuel Oliveira has received a new North Carolina Collaboratory grant to advance the development of microfluidic systems for studying long-term intercellular communication and growth dynamics. This project integrates cell biology, microfabrication, and live-cell imaging to build next-generation platforms that mimic complex tissue environments, allowing us to monitor how cells communicate, adapt, and respond to perturbations over time. We’re looking forward to...

Between July 16–18, we joined the Synthetic Microbial Simulation (DARPA SMS) meeting at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)...

We are thrilled to announce that our undergraduate student, Wisdom Calmly, has been selected to participate in the prestigious North...

We’re thrilled to announce that Sam’s proposal has been awarded the prestigious DARPA Young Faculty Award! This recognition is given to...

We want to extend our deepest gratitude to AxNano and its CEO, Doug Speight, for their generous donation to our lab. This support is...

We’re excited to announce that a new grant of around $200,000 has been awarded for research at the Joint School of Nanoscience and...

We're excited to share that Sam has secured a $25,000 grant from the A&T Provost Office for our project titled "Development and...