May 2026: Jessica gave an oral presentation at the 2026 NY ACS Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS)

Apr. 2026: Annemarie receives the Excellence Award in Natural Sciences and the Arnold Picker Excellence Award in Natural Sciences! And  Jessica receives the Dr. Emil Gernert Jr. Biomed Award! How wonderful! Proud of both of you! [link]

Mar. 2026: Nanoplastics/BBB project is published in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. [link]. Congrats to Annemarie and Jessica

Feb. 2026: Annemarie was interviewed by the Baruch College Fund. [link] Congrats!

Feb. 2026: Annemarie gave oral presentations at the Life Science Switzerland (LS2) conference at the University of Zurich

Jan. 2026: Annemarie and Jessica presented at the National Collegiate Research Conference at Harvard University

Sep. 2025: Dr. Maity and Annemarie presented at the 3rd annual NanoBioNYC symposium.

Aug. 2025: Nour,  Gabriel, and Kayla joined the group. Welcome!

July 2025: Another work on PPSU is published in Nature Communications! Thank you, Evan, Fanfan, Yang, and more, for the fruitful collaboration. [link ]

May 2025: Kaylen's Honor Thesis has just been approved. Congratulations.

May 2025: The rare earth separation paper is finally published in Chem. Eur. J. [link]

May 2025: Two Dell Precision 7875 Tower Workstations just arrived.

Apr. 2025: Allostery paper is published in ACS Omega. [link] Congrats, Dibyajoyti!

Apr. 2025: Dr. Qiao received the Eugene M. Lang Junior Faculty Research Fellowship. 

Mar. 2025: Another five Dell Precision 5860 Tower Workstations arrived.

Jan. 2025: Annemarie joined the group. Welcome aboard!

Dec. 2024: Peptide for the separation of rare earth elements published in PNAS [link]

Dec. 2024: Honor Thesis of David and Mariam got approved. Congrats!

Oct. 2024: Dr. Qiao gave a talk on rare earth elements separation at Queen's College

Aug. 2024: Jessica and Jeanice joined the group. Welcome!

Aug. 2024: Dr. Qiao gave an invited talk at the ACS Fall Meeting. Dr. Maity and Kaylen presented. 

July 2024: NIH R16 award received on human breast cancer.

July 2024: Peptide structures on peptide-brush polymers published in Chem. Sci. [link ]

July 2024: Review of peptide simulations published in ACS Omega [link]

June 2024:  NSF award received for a long-term productive collaboration on peptide delivery!

June 2024: Kaylen receives the CUNY Immersive Research Experience (CIRE) stipend! Big congrats!

May 2024:  Kaylen presents her research at the CUNY UG Research Celebration. [link]

May 2024: Peptide-brush polymers to limit tumor growth in JACS. [link]

Apr. 2024: CUNY ASRC seed grant awarded on polymer degradation. 

March 2024: Kaylen and Mariam received the Undergraduate Travel Award. Congrats!

March 2024: Our paper is selected as a 2024 HOT PCCP article and made free to access [link]. Thanks!

Feb. 2024: CUNY GRTI24 award received for high-performance computers.

Feb. 2024: Allosteric regulation in SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. [link]

Jan. 2024: Peptide-brush polymers for neurodegenerative disease in Advanced Materials. [link]

Jan. 2024: PPSU nanoparticles for nanotherapy in Nature Nanotechnology. [link]

May 2023: We received 157.5 K node hours at TACC.

May 2023: We are awarded $550K from NSF on allosteric regulation.

April 2023: NIH subaward received on protein delivery using polymer nanoparticles.