Eunji Chung
@TheChungLab
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Associate Prof @uscbme | Director Transformative Delivery | Educator | Inventor | Associate Editor @BioactiveMat | Author
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The face of a newly tenured professor!
I’m beyond thankful to my group, mentors, colleagues, and family who cheered and cared for me along the way.
“The one where Eunji becomes tenured.”
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Holy crap! I got the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Grant on my 5th and last time that I’m eligible!
#BelieveInYourself
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My lab has 2 postdoc openings! 🧬🧫🥼
If you have experience and interest in gene/drug delivery, nanomedicine, and/or biomaterials, please email me a cover letter, CV, and references to eunchung
@usc
.edu.
Join us in LA! ☀️⛱️🐚
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Our lab has an open position for a postdoctoral researcher interested in translational drug delivery and nanomedicine! RT appreciated! 🧪🧫🥼
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First real snow in Boston. Last thing off the sabbatical bucket list ❄️
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Just submitted my tenure package.
How did you (or are you going to) celebrate (tenure)?
Genuinely curious about how everyone celebrated.🥳
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So happy teaching my undergrad how to make biodegradable polymers this month! It’s basically my PhD in a Teflon dish.
#nostalgia
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Oh WOW. I always prepare myself for rejection when checking the status, but not this time! Pre-Award notification: AHA Transformational Project Award! Let the hiring begin!
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Currently, all the first day of school vibes on sabbatical. Pure magic.
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So honored and humbled to be a
@BMESociety
Fellow!
Thankful to
@SMitragotri
and others who supported my nomination, and this awesome community I can call home.
Congratulations to all the Fellows! 🫶
Congrats to the 2023 BMES Grade of Fellow Class!
This significant professional distinction recognizes outstanding achievements & contributions to the BME community & BMES.
Full list:
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With the start of the new year, our lab has a new postdoc opening! (>$65-75K salary + benefits based on experience).
Past research in nanomedicine, gene delivery, and/or in vivo is a plus.
Email your CV to eunchung
@usc
.edu.
Retweets appreciated. TIA! ☀️
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Celebrating another year around the sun with the prettiest cake. 🌼🌸🌻
What a privilege it is to be growing older. The last year of my 30s is going to be awesome!
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Fueled by humility and hope, and what I’ve learned over the past 6 years, our Perspective is now out in
@acsnano
and selected as
@ACSPublications
Editor's Choice:
Spotlight on Genetic Kidney Diseases: A Call for Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Solutions
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Life hack: Give birth to your best friend!
Thanks to my mom for visiting me during sabbatical and for taking care of us in Boston. I hadn’t seen her in almost 3 years due to the pandemic.
Love you Mom and see you in the spring 💌 🌸
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Our lab is looking for a scientist at any level (bachelors/masters + 2 yr research or post-doc) for our microRNA therapy project! Experience in nanomedicine, gene delivery, and in vivo is a plus.
Email your CV to eunchung
@usc
.edu.
Retweets appreciated. TIA! 🌅🥼🧬🫀
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I’m so honored to receive the
@USCViterbi
Junior Research Award. A million thanks to my Dept. for nominating me! Here’s a screenshot from today’s awards ceremony - saying a few words in front of 250+ virtually was actually really nerve wracking! Thanks Dong for capturing it!
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5am paddle boarding. My work outs are getting earlier and earlier…
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Very Exciting Month!
1)
@American_Heart
Transformational Research Grant ✅ (miR-NPs for athero + large animal studies)
2)
@USCStevens
Technology Development Grant ✅ (derisk NPs for CVD)
3)
@USC
Ming Hsieh Grant ✅ (EVs for PKD)
We are hiring! Please help spread the word!
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I am beyond thrilled to announce that I’m a recipient of the NIH New Innovator Award to develop nanomedicine for kidney disease! I’d like to thank my mentors, colleagues, friends, and family for their support and recognize my team for their continued efforts!
#NIHHighRisk
@uscbme
The
@NIHDirector
’s New Innovator award supports early career researchers. Meet the 2018 awardees.
#NIHHighRisk
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Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!
I’m styling my
@NSF
sweater with a vintage necklace I hunted in Chicago during my postdoc days (the best vintage stores ever fyi).
Drinking 🥂 in my Xmas gift from hubby.
Happy holidays! 🕊️
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I didn’t know when I was a student that your PhD advisor can be a lifelong advisor, mentor, and friend. 💜🤍
Found this goodie from BMES:
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Celebrating 4️⃣0️⃣ in lab meeting 🥳
Feels great to stop thinking about turning 40 and the day to finally be here!
Thankful for all the wonderful people in my life and for being able to do what I love everyday.
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Snow, hail, rain this week (more to come) in LA. Power is out but an incredible morning view. 🏔️🏔️🏔️
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I didn’t want it to take up space and wanted to go about my day. But then, those tolerated, uncomfortable moments growing up started flooding back in. So, let it take up space, more space. For my trainees and for our future generation.
#StopAAPIHate
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In my favorite city of all time. Thanks for the love Chicagoooo!
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My home base and my crew over sabbatical!
A million thanks to Samir for hosting me and much love to the entire group who welcomed me with open arms.
I couldn’t have asked for a better sabbatical and so thankful for this crew. Will miss all of you guys!
@SMitragotri
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Celebrating the one and only, brilliant
@ProfArmani
on her exciting chapter
@ellisoninst
next month!
When I was considering USC to start my career, knowing Andrea was already here made a huge impact. I knew I had a model and North Star to turn to.
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Excited to share a new initiative at the start of the year: the Transformative Center for Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery!
Thanks to our center faculty members, external board, and internal support for sharing in this vision and making it happen.
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So touched by this honor. Thank you to my students who nominated me! ❤️💛
Congratulations to Eun Ji Chung, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, on receiving the 2021 Hanna Reisler Mentorship Award! 👏
@TheChungLab
@USCViterbi
@USC
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I feel like I did them proud! Thanks group for believing in me and for this generosity!
I guess I’ll be celebrating all month long. 🍾 to start Monday morning lab meeting!
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First grant in for 2022! 🎷🎷🎷 Love this point in time when you’re filled with all things possible.
#letsgo
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Our
@TheChungLab
annual
@Disneyland
trip. First of many to come!
This Group is special. It’s taken time to get here, and I’m so proud and grateful for it.
#HappiestPlaceOnEarth
🪄👯♀️🐭🎢🏰🎠🚄
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Join our awesome team!
Our lab has a postdoc opening!
Past research in nanomedicine, gene delivery, and/or in vivo is a plus. Email your CV to eunchung
@usc
.edu.
Retweets appreciated. TIA!☀️
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My former student and I launched a science activity/coloring book! For all ages and perfect for homeschooling!
Proceeds will be donated to COVID-19 efforts
@CDCgov
.
Digital download available on Etsy (printed book available soon!). Please share!
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Over-the-moon about my mRNA nanoparticles. Even more grateful my lab has been getting vaccinated this week - one year out, they remain safe. Hoping the same for everyone reading this.
#notthrowinawaymyshot
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So thankful to
@CRSScience
for the recognition as inaugural Member of the Year Award!
#missiondriven
🌠☀️🚀
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Join our team transforming biological discovery.
We are looking for a Project Manager in coordinating an exciting new Biotechnology research program between UCLA, USC, and Caltech focused on Synthetic Morphogenesis and Lab on a Particle Technologies.
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Our work detecting early metastasis in lymph nodes using monocyte-targeting micelles is now available in
@acsnano
.
So glad to see this work out! Lots of persistence and hard work was poured in.
Congrats x ♾️ to (now) Dr. Noah Trac!
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Our lab is hiring postdoctoral researchers and research technicians!
I'll be
@ASNKidney
Kidney Week Friday/Saturday and
@ChEnected
AIChE Sunday/Monday.
Would love to connect with anyone that is interested in person!
eunchung
@usc
.edu
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Love this time of year when the jacaranda trees turn the city purple.
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Congratulations to Noah on passing his quals - third PhD candidate in
@TheChungLab
! Also, I finally get to be one of those PIs that gave this as a gift!
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Yi and I showcasing natural biomaterials with varying mechanical properties using soft to hard tofu, self-assembly using seaweed-derived alginate boba balls, and unique features on the nanoscale to elementary students. Fun times! 😎🦴🌱 🍙💅🍊
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Congrats to my PhD advisor Guillermo Ameer for the CAB Global Biomaterials Leadership Award and
@SFBiomaterials
Tech Innovation and Development Award! My agenda for
@SFBiomaterials
this year was to simply come and celebrate Guillermo. So lucky I can do this as a mentee!
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Thanks to the NSF BMAT program for their support, and to the program officer for working with me and believing in this work. NOA: EAGER-Harnessing natural killer cell-derived extracellular vesicles as anti-viral nanomaterials!
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Christmas tradition. It’s good to be back.
All the best to everyone. Hope all of it comes true what’s left of this year and on.
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Awesome visit to POSTECH.
Such good science, tour of of their accelerator, and great to connect with so many wonderful people.
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When I’m not fundraising, training the next generation of scientists and engineers, and raising two little ones at home, I try to squeeze out a bit more creative juices.
Made STEM cookie cutters out on
@etsy
! 🧫👩🏻🔬🍪
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Celebrating many hard earned wins this past month including another restaurant opening by my in laws on the family front.
Happy Chuseok 🥮🍁
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When someone you admire and respect recognizes and encourages you, it can be a day changer, a life changer.
Thank you
@BettyKimLab
for being a model of kindness and excellence in every way.
Catching up with
@TheChungLab
. She is doing it all: great Mum, Daughter, academic scientist, leader, nanotechnologist, mentor, children’s story author. We need more like her. Did I mention she is
#Korean
-American?
#PeopleWhoInspireMe
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Our future is bright!💡
I always learn so much whenever I teach in the K-12 classroom.
Talking about my journey and career and doing a little biomaterials science for Women’s History Month.
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Putting my planning skills to good use. Happy fourth birthday to our darling girl! 🎀
#HelloKitty
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Very much looking forward to welcome and host
@TejalADesai
for the
@USCWiSE
Presidential Distinguished Lecture next month. 💪
Join us for a Presidential Distinguished Lecture featuring the Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering at Brown University, Tejal Desai, PhD.
This event is open to all. To RSVP, visit (code: wiselecture)
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“Rule Number Six: Don’t take yourself so goddam seriously.”
-Kinam Park
Best advice ever
#CRS2022
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Supporting charities for women and children tonight. It’s always an honor to be a part.
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To sum up this decade:
2010 Got 💍👰🏻, bought condo
2011
@NorthwesternU
PhD
2012
@UChicagoPME
@American_Heart
postdoc, adopted 🐶
2013 Crusin’ 😎
2014 Son born
2015 K99/R00
2016
@USC
faculty, bought 🏡
2017 One of the hardest: 3 👼🏻
2018 DP2
2019 Daughter born, Early Career Chair
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My last and 14th presentation of 2020 as part of the
@WBC2020
Supramolecular Nanomaterials session. I made it! Looking towards what lies ahead in 2021.
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Finally, some tea time with my mom. Thanks for supporting me mom! Even from afar, just knowing you guys are there in support continues to guide me.
#Roots
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It’s easy to forget how beautiful my workplace is. Taking time to appreciate the everyday. ✌️♥️💛
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It’s a cloudy day in Galveston, but feeling the warmth surrounded by my extended academic family.
@GordonConf
#GRCPeptideMaterials
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Congratulations to my graduate student Deborah Chin! Her work on targeting vascular SMC for atherosclerosis is now available in
@Biomaterials_
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We still have 1️⃣ position at any level (bachelors, masters, postdoc) in our lab!
If you’re interested, please email your application to eunchung
@usc
.edu.
TIA for RT! 🙏
We now have 2️⃣ positions open!
If you are interested in nanomedicine and gene delivery, and have a bachelors, masters, or PhD in biomedical engineering or related field, email me or find me
@CRSScience
next week!
SoCal isn’t awful either and my group is awesome too! 😎 🏝🌊
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Congrats to PhD student Yi Huang on his (first) publication in
@BioTM_Buzz
! This study developed a library of micelles with charged and zwitterionic peptides, varying PEG MW, and surface density to understand kidney accumulation in vivo. Super proud! 🤩
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Really made my day: Bob Langer's magic trick performances and sharing of his early days and career trajectory.
#CRS2020
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Teaching my little one H and E staining and how to focus at 4x this weekend. Didn’t realize how easily “ciliated epithelium” could be turned into a catchy song.
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Ah! My collaborator received the 8% on her R01! We both went through kidney related personal trials and triumphs during this submission which makes this even sweeter. Can not wait to help develop gene delivery platforms for Alport Syndrome!
#raredisease
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Excited to be a part of this team! Lots of new discoveries to come.
Cellular biology is filled with mysteries waiting to be unraveled with innovative tech, lots of data & collaboration between institutions. That’s why we’re announcing 4 projects in genomics &
#biology
, bringing labs together to decode cellular functions
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Savoring my last month of sabbatical on the East Coast. Pictures of Martha’s Vineyard. 🌾🐚⚓️
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Congratulations to 1st year PhD student, Karla Lambaren!
1.75 percentile!!!👀🤩👀🤩
Thank you to
@AHAScience
for this wonderful recognition and support!
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I’m proud of my two students who put in their brilliant NSF GRFP! I was an intl student and was ineligible to apply for fellowships in grad school. One HM and beyond the outcome, they’re in much better shape and more experienced than I was!
Keep up the great work!
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I’ll be using these celebratory glasses for all occasions now. The font is my son’s handwriting. Thanks Little Man for being there for me! 💕
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"Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell” -Dr. Samuel Dubois Cook
For
#BlackHistoryMonth
, I want to place a spotlight on my colleague, Dr. Stacey Finley (
@USCSysBio_Lab
), Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at USC, who lives out this quote.
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Great to be back
@MayoClinic
. Thanks to Kun Ling and the Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Medicine/PKD Center for hosting. So good to see everyone and be back in the Midwest 💙
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We’ve been upping our snack game this year. It’s a small weekly source of joy and there’s always a fun rapport at the beginning of lab meeting each week. Thanks to Josh for placing orders and keeping us happily surprised and guessing each week.
#mochinut
🍡🍩
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Our department is hiring!
If you have any questions, feel free to DM or email me!
For those contemplating applying this cycle: It's currently a Buyer's Market. 💪💪💪
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Wow. Zero new cases today in LA.
We need to distribute vaccines worldwide to even this out globally!
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Congratulations to my dear friend, awesome nano scientist and colleague, and office neighbor, Cristina Zavaleta on tenure! Couldn’t be more happy for her!
A pic from our early days at USC, kids!
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We have wild peacocks in our neighborhood. Here’s one visiting my daughter’s preschool during drop off - Just stunning. 🦚
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Congratulations to Dr. Deborah Chin, PhD! Such beautiful work over the past 5 years showcased in 5 first author publications, 4 coauthor, and 2 on the way. Later this summer, she’ll be headed to SF to consult with
@ZSAssociates
! 🥳
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Grateful for this honor and the support of my USC community: Inaugural holder of the Dr. Karl Jacob Jr. and Karl Jacob III Early Career Chair.
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Such a fulfilling
#BMES2023
! Guillermo and Jian are honored, caught up with
@TheChungLab
alum
@kkerry_Jiang
, new friends, and BMES Fellow induction. 🌸🦀☕️
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The weekend begins with thank you emails from students for teaching the best course they've ever taken.
#eartoear
😊
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Landed and straight to
#Hypertension23
! It’s a packed 36 hours in Boston but feels great to be back 🍀
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Happy October, uni style.
Freshly flown into our local Japanese market from Hokkaido.
#BostonSabbatical
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Thanks to Dr. Jinkee Hong and students for a great visit to Yonsei University.
Time flew ~
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Squeezed in a talk at my international, boarding high school today. Greeted by a few familiar faces among a sea of new faces.
#GiveBack
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Catching lunch with my parents during my layover in Seoul before heading to Bangkok for
@ISNWCN
@ISNkidneycare
🇰🇷🇹🇭🌸🫘
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We are still in the midst of interviewing candidates for the open postdoc position in our lab. Please email me if you’re interested in nanomedicine and biomedical applications! 🌴☀️🌊
Our lab has an open position for a postdoctoral researcher interested in translational drug delivery and nanomedicine! RT appreciated! 🧪🧫🥼
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Collaborative opportunities discussed at KIT. Thank you for the wonderful discussion and hospitality.
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Congratulations to Jonathan, my first PhD candidate! I knew this day was scheduled for many months, but the moment feels monumental. So proud!
@uscbme
Cheers! 🥂🍾
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