Associate Professor @UF Pharmacy-Extracellular Vesicles and Exosomes -mediated delivery and biological programming # Microfluidics #3Dprinting #nanodelivery
Gainesville, FL
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Check out the Oct 27 Rapid Fire program at the AAPS 2026 Annual Meeting in New Orleans!
👏 👏 👏 #AAPS #PharmaceuticalScientists
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👉 welcome applications for joining our drug delivery program!
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We had a great few days at our SCGE workshop and consortium meeting. Thank you to everyone who participated and attended!
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The NIH Common Fund’s SCGE program advanced many pipelines for accelerating the translation of genome editing therapies into the clinic from the past decade. I am honored to be part of this initiative as a project PI🫶
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Our steering committee update from Dr. Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas highlighted some exciting wins from our consortium researchers.
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Happy birthday, Ana! 🍰🎂🍨🍦We hope your wishes come true. Starting a brand new science discovery as a PhD student is really cool😎
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Congratulations to ISEV poster awardees!! 👏👏👏ISEV Member Spotlights and TV Interviews #ISEV isev.org/isev-member-spotlig…
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UF Health Cancer Institute researchers led by Mei He, Ph.D., and Padraic O'Malley, M.D., recently developed an AI-driven extracellular vesicle liquid biopsy pipeline that proves the concept for high-precision bladder cancer subtyping and prognosis.
The pipeline could potentially facilitate treatment decisions and lead to advanced profiling of bladder tumor biology based on urinary extracellular vesicles.
Read the full study: doi.org/10.1002/jex2.70141
ALT A schematic illustration of an AI-driven extracellular vesicle (EV) liquid biopsy pipeline.
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Such an enjoyable GRC EV meeting! I am honored for an invited oral and 3 students for posters. Unfortunately, as GRS Chair, Samantha couldn’t make to Barcelona due to flight cancellation, rest of us were able to watch the once-in-life solar eclipse!
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Always a mixed feeling to see my students to graduate and leave🫶 Dr Erwin, hope the best to store for your future and your amazing new journey just starts!
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Glad to hear that two awards ( Best Paper and Best Presentation) from the UF SSTP summer research all went to our lab! Congratulations to Sophia and Selena👏👏👏 Also, great appreciations go to Dr Pan and Dr Zachary as their day to day mentors. Well done🎉👍👏
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Congratulations to Dr Erwin for passing the PhD Thesis Defense with outstanding performance 👏👏👏 Dr Erwin, your amazing journey just about to start!
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Dr. MEI HE retweeted
UF Health Cancer Institute researchers recently developed an innovative technology that allows researchers to study cancer cell growth in a more realistic tissue-like environment. The work was featured on the cover of the journal Advanced Materials Technologies, recognizing the innovation and broad impact of the technology.
The team, led by @UF_HE_LAB, developed a high-throughput technology that rapidly generates thousands of uniform collagen microbeads. The platform creates miniature three-dimensional environments that better mimic how tumor cells grow in the body than traditional flat cell culture systems.
Using lung cancer and normal lung cells, the team showed that these collagen microbeads support the formation of 3D tumor spheroids, which researchers can use to study cancer cell growth.
The platform can be scaled to produce numerous consistent 3D tumor models, making it useful to evaluate anti-cancer therapies. It has the potential to be used to test new treatment strategies.
The collagen microbeads also support long-term cell growth and extracellular vesicle (EV) production. EVs are small particles released by cells that help cells communicate and may serve as biomarkers or therapeutic agents.
Because the system is built from natural collagen, the major structural protein found throughout the body, it creates a biologically relevant microenvironment that can be adapted for cancer research, regenerative medicine and drug development.
Samantha Ali, a graduate student in He's lab in @UFPharmacy, is the study's first author. Lizi Wu, Ph.D., co-leader of the UF Health Cancer Institute's Mechanisms of Oncogenesis research program, is also a co-author.
Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1002/admt.2025022…
ALT The cover of the journal Advanced Materials Technologies with large colorful 3D molecules.
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Great honor to receive this Outstanding Publication in Basic Research Award from our college UF COP. Our research lab published more than 10 journal papers in this fiscal year, showing our passion and dedication to R & D for finding the best cure ✊
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Good science means science you can repeat. These researchers get it.
Meet the winners of the NIH Replication Prize – researchers making biomedical science more rigorous, trustworthy, and replicable 👉 bit.ly/4vKqNU2
ALT Graphic showing a multichannel pipet. Text reads: NIH Announces Replication Prize Winners. Meet the Researchers Championing Research, Rigor, and Reproducibility.
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