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NOVA LAB Year-End Lunch

We had a great time wrapping up the year at NOVA Lab! Delicious food, great conversations, and wonderful moments with the team. We’re truly grateful for this amazing group and excited for what the new year will bring. Happy holidays, everyone! 🎉✨

2025 Aging & Immunity Workshop

NOVA Lab recently participated in the 2025 Aging and Immunity Workshop hosted by The Gene Lay Institute to engage with the latest advancements in age-related immune decline. We are excited to announce the expansion of our research focus into aging and neurodegenerative diseases, aiming to apply our nanoplatform technologies to combat conditions such as dementia.

Samsung Global Research Visited NOVA Lab

NOVA Lab had the opportunity to help a Boston forum involving executive-level leadership from Samsung Global Research.

We were also pleased to welcome Team Leader Chankoo Kang to NOVA Lab for discussions on future collaboration and innovation opportunities. It was a productive visit, and we look forward to continued engagement and joint exploration at the interface of biomedical imaging and advanced technologies.

Prof. Woo-Jae Chung from Sungkyunkwan University joined us for dinner, bringing together members of the Organic Synthesis Lab at SNU (Prof. Yoon-Sik Lee) for a wonderful reunion in Boston.

i3 SYMPOSIUM 2025, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Imaging: Innovations, Insights and Impact

All NOVA Lab members, Satoshi, Homan, Dmitriy, and Shinya, were delighted to attend the i3 Symposium, which was hosted through a collaborative effort among i3, the MGB Center for Inflammation Imaging, the Department of Radiology, and the HVI. The symposium was organized by center leadership, including Drs. Matthias Nahrendorf, Peter Libby, and John Chen, and joined by institutional leaders such as Drs. James Brink and Bruce Rosen.

It was an inspiring event that highlighted emerging innovations, imaging technologies, and collaborative research shaping the future of cardiovascular inflammation imaging.

Profs. Tae Kim and Jae Gwan Kim (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, GIST) Visited NOVA Lab!

We were delighted to host Professors Tae Kim and Jae Gwan Kim from GIST at NOVA Lab. We had a wonderful lunch and an engaging discussion about our future collaborations with Tae, Jae, and Young (from Martinos Center), exploring exciting opportunities for joint research.

Prof. Ki Tae Nam (Seoul National University) visited NOVA Lab for the second time!

We had another inspiring discussion on advancing innovative bioapplications of chiral nanomaterials, including wound healing and novel strategies for brain health.

📖 Selected works by Prof. Nam: 

Nature 556, 360-365 (2018). [link]

Nature 612, 470-476 (2022). [link]

Nature Materials 23, 977-983 (2024). [link] 

Science 389,1031-1036 (2025). [link]

Nanophilia Visited Us

We had a great time hosting Min-Suk Kim (CEO, Nanophilia) and Dr. Sinyoung Jeong (Intek Scientific) at NOVA Lab. Exciting discussions on plasmonic nanoplatforms for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers and future collaboration opportunities!

Visit from Dr. Kouji Banno, MD, PhD – Hiroshima University Hospital

We were pleased to welcome Dr. Kouji Banno and his fellow from Hiroshima University Hospital to the NOVA Lab. The visit focused on exploring potential collaborations in ovarian cancer targeting and therapy, as well as opportunities for exchange of fellows between our institutions.

Hanmi Fine Chemical Visited NOVA Lab and Peptide Core (Director: Prof. Ashok Khatri)

We had a wonderful meeting with Hanmi Fine Chemical and Ashok, discussing future opportunities for collaboration on GLP-1 peptide research. Excited about the potential ahead! 

Visit from Dr. Makoto Suematsu, MD, PhD 

We were honored to host Dr. Makoto Suematsu, Director of the Central Institute for Experimental Medicine and Life Science at Keio University, at the NOVA Lab. During the visit, we discussed the application of NIR-II fluorescence imaging in large animal models of Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, an approach that provides insights more directly translatable to humans.

Seoul National University Department of Pharmacy visited NOVA Lab

We were delighted to welcome students from the College of Pharmacy at Seoul National University, visiting through the Miraero Global Fellowship program. The group explored our research environment, engaged in cross-cultural exchange, and gained first-hand exposure to innovation shaping the future of healthcare here in Boston.