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May 2008: Prof. Luo received the Chancellors Award.

April 2007: DNANO Systems, a start-up company to commercialize MOLBEL research, has won the 2nd place at The 7th Cornell BR Ventures Business Idea Competition.

April 2007: Prof. Luo has accepted an invitation to become an associate editor for the J. of Biomedical Nanotechnology.

March 2007: Congratulations to Nokyoung and Jimee Kim -- they are proud parents of a baby girl: April Soomin Park, born on March 26th, 3210 grams and 19 and 1/4 inches.

Feb. 2007: Congratulations to Wenlong: He was awarded the FIRST place prize in CCMR Microscopy Image Contest. The winning FE-SEM image was "plasmonic supracrystals fabricated from DNA-gold nanoparticles".

Jan, 2007: Congratulations to Dr. Yajun Wang -- he is a proud father of a baby girl, Zixian Wang!
Jan, 2007: Prof. Luo gets promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

2006
Nov 2006 Soong was awarded a Silver Graduate Student Award from MRS Fall Meeting for his work on DNA gels -- Congratulations!
Oct 2006 Congratulations to Soong -- he is a proud father of a baby boy, John Kyu Mann Um, born on 10/29/06.
Oct 2006 Prof. Luo is among "Cornell inventors recognized for contributions to the university and the world"
Sept 2006 Prof. Luo has accepted an invitation to be the Series Editor for Nano-Medicine book series (Pan Stanford Publishing).
Sept 2006 DNANO Systems, a start-up company to translate and commercialize MOLBEL's technologies, has won the 2nd place at the 4th Purdue University Life Sciences Business Plan Competition ($20,000 in cash and $8,000 in services).
August 2006 Our paper on DNA gel has been accepted by Nature Materials.
Jan-May 2006
Our paper on DL-DNA synthesis has been accepted by Nature Protocols.

An invited review paper on multiplexed detection will apper in Expert Review in Molecular Diagnosis.

Prof. Luo has been invited to be an Editorial Advisory Board member for Nano Today

Prof. Luo has been informed to receive NSF CAREER Award.

2005
Oct. 2005 Prof. Luo is elected to be an Editorial Board member for Nanomedicine.
Oct. 2005 Prof. Luo will be co-chairing an international conference: "Materials Today Asia" in Beijng in Sept. 2007 (with co-chairs Prof. Younan Xia (U. of Washington) and Prof. Tae Won Noh (Seoul National U.)).
Sept. 2005 An invited review paper on drug delivery and nanotechnology is published in MRS Bulletin (Sept. 2005).
Sept. 2005 A joint commenting paper on silica (with Prof. Saltzman) is published in Gene Therapy.
Aug. 2005 A collaborative paper (with Prof. Craighead) on single DNA barcode has been published in J. Applied Physics. 98, 044903
July 2005 Prof. Luo is among 100 sicentists across the country selected by National Academies to attend the 3rd National Academies Keck Futures Conference "Genomics" in Nov. 2005. This is a second time that he has been selected (last year he was selected to attend the "Designing Nanostructures" conference).
June 2005 A collaborative paper on a novel gene delivery system (with Prof. Barthelemy at U. of Avignon, France and Prof. Grinstaff at Boston U.) has been accepted by Molecular BioSystems, a brand new journal published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
June 2005 Our DNA nanobarcode paper (online in Nature Biotechnology) is getting lots of publicity from mass media.
May 2005 Our DNA nanobarcode paper is accepted by Nature Biotechnology (published, Vol. 23, Pg. 885-889, July 2005).
March 2005 A collaborative paper on single Dendrimer-like DNA diffusion (with Prof. Ke at Clemson) has been accepted by J. Phys. Chem. B. Vol. 109, pg. 9839-9842
March 2005 A collaborative paper on single nanobarcode detection (with Prof. Craighead at Cornell) has been accepted by Nanotechnology.(Vol. 16, Pg. s314-s323, July 2005)
Feb. 2005 Prof. Luo has been accepted as a faculty member of NSF sponsored Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR).

2004
Dec 2004 A collaborative paper on DNA delivery (with Prof. Gemeinhart at UIC and Prof. Saltzman at Yale) has been published by Biotechnology Progress.
Oct 2004 Our DNA nanobarcode idea won the third place ($10,000) in the First International Nanotechnology Business Idea Competition. It is the only nanobiotechnology in top 3 awards.
Aug 2004 A collaborative paper on DNA delivery (with Prof. Grinstaff at Boston U.) has been published by J. Am. Chem. Soc. (JACS). Vol. 126 (39); pages 12196-12197.
June 2004 Prof. Luo has been invited to attend the 2nd Annual National Academies Keck "Futures Initiative" conference Designing Nanostructures at the Interface between Biomedical and Physical Systems. Details: "Futures Conferences".
May 2004 Powen Tu and Eric Yang have successfully defended their M. Eng theses. Congratulations! Also, Powen and Eric have just got engaged! Congratulations again!
April 2004 Sang Kwon, Manoj Dadlani and Erin King successfully defended their Honor Theses. Congratulations!
April 2004 Yougen and Yanou are now proud parents of a baby girl, Katherine WanYi Li! Congratulations!
April 2004 Manoj Dadlani was awarded the first prize for his poster in the BioExpo Symposium. Congratulations!
April 2004 Clarence Lo was awarded the Cornell Presidential Research Scholarship; congrautlaions!
March 2004 Our research on DNA dendrimer was reported by Nanobiotech News on March 10th, 2004, entitiled "New DNA dendrimer envisioned as generic nanotech building block". In addition, the following sites picked up our research as well: nanodot.com and SETI bioastro.
March 2004 Leo d'Espaux received Slayton Evans Research Award from American Chemical Society. Congratulations, Leo!
Feb 2004 Our research on dendrimer-like DNA was reported by MIT Technology Research News on Feb. 17th (www.trnmag.com). The title of the news story is: "Scientists brew tree shaped DNA".

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