2026-06-16: The lab just received its first NIH grant! Congratulations on getting the NIH NIBIB R21 Trailblazer titled “Stress-Responsive Protein Sensors for Precision Cancer Immunotherapy”.
2026-05-16: Congratulations to Jeremy for receiving the NIH NIGMS Cell and Tissue Engineering (CTEng) T32 Fellowship! Way to go!
2026-05-01: Welcome to Abigail (Abi) Deans and Farryn Beatty for joining the lab as undergrad students! Farryn is joining us through the GT SURE program. Abi will be working with Sophie and Farryn will be working with Jeremy.
2026-04-15: Congratulations to Sophie for receiving an NSF GRFP for her work on protein-level stress sensors!
2026-03-14: Welcome to Hannah Perlman for joining the lab as an undergrad student! Hannah will be working with Sophie on optimizing the protein-based stress sensors.
2026-03-01: Alex received a Career Development Award from Breakthrough T1D to continue the lab’s work on designing and optimizing synthetic protein circuits to enhance the engraftment of subcutaneously transplanted pancreatic islets!
2025-12-01: The lab got our first seed grant from CMaT for the optimization of our protein-based stress sensors!
2025-08-18: Welcome to Sophie Klessel, Dalia Cabrera, and Jeremy Hannon who have joined the lab as graduate students. Welcome to Ajay Inampudi and Esther Lee who have joined as undergraduate students!
2025-02-01: The Vlahos lab has started at Georgia Institute of Technology in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. We are growing as a lab looking to engineer synthetic biology tools for understanding intercellular signals and how to control them. Check here for open positions!