John T. Wilson, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award.
The five-year, $500,000 grant 鈥� Engineering Polymeric Nanomaterials for Programming Innate Immunity 鈥� will allow Wilson to develop new synthetic materials for 鈥渆ncoding鈥� immunological messages and tightly regulating their delivery to the organs, cells, and pathways of the immune system.
鈥淭his research will address a fundamental need for new tools to control, understand, and harness the immune system, which has significant ramifications in vaccine development, cancer immunotherapy, and treatment of autoimmune disorders,鈥� Wilson said.