Awarded the NSF CAREER award!

Our work with Omics analysis of Barrett's Esophagus is published in Developmental Cell

The lab is part of the group that receives a large NIH U54 grant to develop computational models for infection

Awarded the Human Science Frontiers Program (HFSP) Early Career Grant with Xavi and Franzi!

Kyra receives the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering (CBTE) Fellowship 

Our collaborative work with network models of spatial data is published in Briefings in Bioinformatics

Invited to speak at the Acute Kidney Injury from Bench to Bedside Conference

Take home the 1st annual scavenger hunt award at the Duke BME retreat

Yang and Bobby give oral presentations and Kyra a poster presentation at the annual Duke BME retreat

Invited to speak at the 2nd American Spatial Biology Congress

Shelby wins the Helmholtz Award for best undergraduate research project graduating from the Duke BME Dept.

Roy wins Edward ‘Ned’ D. Light Memorial Award for best engineering design graduating from the Duke BME Dept.

Josie successfully submitted her undergraduate thesis

Kyra wins 1st place in Envisioning the Invisible Photo Contest

Yang shares an oral and poster presentation at the annual HuBMAP meeting

A video describing some of our efforts in the HuMBAP consortia is released to YouTube with Indiana University

Our collaborative work with high-throughput serology is published in Nature Biomedical Engineering

Yuan wins a Spring 2025 Research Fellowship from Duke BME

Zachary presents his work at the Duke Undergrad Research Symposium

Leyla presents at Duke Responsible AI Symposium

Our perspective with Mustafa about proteogenomics in glioblastoma is published on ASCO Daily News

Our collaborative work in cell atlas with other HuBMAP groups is published in Nature Methods

Was interviewed and highlighted by a documentary on Spatial Biology done by Biocompare

Invited to speak at the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics' Symposium on Photonics Science and Technology

Invited to speak at University of Connecticut Center for Cell Analysis & Modeling’s Seminar Series

Invited to give a plenary talk at the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening Conference

Invited to give a seminar with the Marsico Lung Institute in Respiratory Biology 

The lab completes its first Hickey Lab Hackathon. 1st place: Confetti, 2nd place: Gut Check, 3rd place: Life on the Edge

The lab is part of the group that receives a large NIH U01 grant to study/model human influenza

Spatial Proteomics is named the Method of the Year by Nature

Kylee and Fuyao present an oral presentation at the 2024 Genomics Scientific Retreat

Collaborator Shuyi Li publishes on the Hydrogel mediated T cell activation in Science advances

Our lab is highlighted in the Input/Output Magazine

Invited to speak at University of North Carolina Computational Medicine Seminar Series

Lab attends BMES with John chairing two sessions and Shelby presents a poster

Invited to speak at Vanderbilt University Genomic and Personalized Medicine Seminar Series

Invited to speak at Quantitative Bioimaging (QBI) workshop on multiplex image analysis 

Invited to speak at CytoData and Society for Biomolecular Imaging and Informatics (SBI2) Conference

Yi-Hsin leaves the lab and heads back to Taiwan to start her own lab

The lab receives a supplement grant from NIH HuBMAP to continue our work in the tissue mapping consoritum

Research highlighted by Akoya's blog and a SelectScience seminar

Josie Presents at the ChemSurf Summer Symposium and Shelby presented at Duke Undergraduate Research Symposium

Received Duke Cancer Institute American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant!

Magda publishes her paper "Spatially Segregated Macrophage Populations Predict Distinct Outcomes In Colon Cancer" in Cancer Discovery!

Sharing our research at SCI, CBTE, CHSI, and Pathology grand rounds at Duke

Kyra, Yang, and Bobby accept offers to join as the first graduate students of the group!

First invited speaker at Sunbelt Spatial-omics Seminar Series

Invited to share our research at Hong Kong University Cancer Immunology Seminar Series

Invited to speak at HuBMAP Demo Day & NCI Cancer Systems Biology Consortium Seminar Series

Our paper on integrating multiscale modeling and multiplexed imaging is published in Cell Systems

Hickey Lab collects first dataset!

Nature highlights our spatial-omics work in HuBMAP/HTAN in 7 technologies to watch in 2024

Hickey Lab has its first lab meeting on Duke campus!

Interacted with other spatial biology experts and invited to present at the inaugural joint HTAN/HuBMAP sympoisa meeting

Presented at the annual Advances in Immunoengineering series

The Hickey lab opens!

Our paper "T cell-mediated curation and restructuring of tumor tissue coordinates an effective immune response" is published in Cell Reports!

Hickey lab is announced to start January 2024 at Duke University in the Department of Biomedical Engineering!

Interviewed by BioTechniques on spatial biology

Invited to speak at Spatial Biology Workshop hosted at Stanford

Our paper on "Organization of the human intestine at single-cell resolution" is published in Nature and highlighted in Nature in News and Views and Perspectives articles

Presented at Spatial Biology & Omics among an amazing set of leaders in spatial biology

Invited to speak at Spatial Biology '23 at Cedars Sinai

Selected as a finalist in Art of Science Exhibition

Selected for Presentation at AGBT 2023 to present work on multiplexed imaging of RNA/protein on FFPE tissue

Science features our work within HuBMAP with a podcast interview of John: Science is a Team Sport

Participated in live online science museum demonstrations that was also published on YouTube

Presented at the American Cancer Society Jile Professors and Fellows Conference

Speaking at BMES 2022 in the Spatially Resolved Cellular and Multicellular Systems session

Accepted as an Irving Cancer Immunology Symposium Awardee

Won Best Poster Award and presented at the inaugural Gordon Research Conference - Immunoengineering

Speaking at the Akoya Bioscience & Genome Web Webinar

Awarded the American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship 

Received New Instructor Award from JHU EP

Publication on T cell activating hydrogels is highlighted by Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Received Hans J. Prochaska Award and highlighted by INBT

Named one of 5 Siebel Scholars at JHU

The JHU HUB features our Tcrunch App an app for student-teacher feedback and highlighted in the Innovative Instructor

INBT highlights our publication on nano-sized artificial antigen-presenting cells

Named ARCS Foundation Scholarship Recipient for work with biomaterials engineering of T cell therapies