News

Rachel Pollard is featured in the NextGen Voices creative writing contest National assessments in verse in Science! Read her haiku here.
2025 October
Amy Moreno is featured in a NYU Tandon Newsletter Ph.D. Pulse article! Read their interview on LinkedIn here.
2025 October
Our publication Nanoparticle-Mediated Antagonism of Sustained Endosomal Signaling of the Calcitonin-like Receptor Provides Enhanced and Persistent Relief of Oral Cancer Pain by Chloe J. Peach, Nguyen Huu Tu, Parker K. Lewis, Rachel E. Pollard, Badr Sokrat, Sam Nicholson, Kai Trevett, Naomi Barrett, Francesco De Logu, Jiaqi Zhu, Rocco Latorre, Shavonne Teng, Michael J. Therien, Dane D. Jensen, Brian L. Schmidt, Nigel W. Bunnett, and Nathalie M. Pinkerton* is accepted to Biomaterials!
2025 September
Our publication 20 years of Flash NanoPrecipitation - from controlled precipitation to global medicine by Kurt D. Ristroph, Nathalie M. Pinkerton, Chester E. Markwalter, Suzanne M. D'Addio, Marian E. Gindy, and Robert F. Pagels is accepted to Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews!
2025 September
Zaq Ponce is awarded the NYU Tandon Next Gen Ph.D. Scholarship!
2025 September
Our publication A comparative study of flash nanoprecipitation and sequential nanoprecipitation: Impact of formulation parameters on drug-loaded nanoparticle formation by Nouha El Amri, Amy McKinstry, Rachel Pollard, Parker Lewis, and Nathalie Pinkerton* is accepted to Molecular Pharmaceutics.
2025 September
Our ACS Engineering Au journal cover is published!
2025 August
Rachel Pollard is awarded a UGSRP Mentor of the Year Award! 
2025 August
Our work is featured on the NYU Tandon Research page NYU Tandon Researchers Create Method for Precise Drug Delivery Capsule Manufacturing. Read the article here.
2025 July
Our publication Process and Formulation Parameters Governing Polymeric Microparticle Formation via Sequential NanoPrecipitation (SNaP) by Parker K. Lewis, Nouha El Amri, Erica E. Burnham, Natalia Arrus, and Nathalie M. Pinkerton* is accepted to ACS Engineering Au and was selected for the ACS Editor's Choice Collection!
2025 June
Congratulations to our graduating students, Amy McKinstry, Maya Metri, Parker Lewis, Steven Martinez, and Sue Li!
2025 May
Parker Lewis defends his PhD Thesis.
2025 May
Alexia Kaloudis wins 2nd place in the 5th Annual Molecular Pathobiology Innovative Research Symposium 2025 Poster Competition!
2025 April
Alexia Kaloudis and Kiana Bahrami win the 2025 Inclusive Excellence Award.
2025 April
Alexia Kaloudis, Kiana Bahrami, Kayra Oğuz and Nathalie Pinkerton inspired the next generation of scientists and engineers at the PS03 Charrette Elementary School Science Fair.
2025 April
Alexia Kaloudis is awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2025 NSF GRFP competition!
2025 April
Rachel Pollard, Erica Burnham, and Alexia Kaloudis win First Place in the Tandon Research Excellence Exhibit Areas of Excellence Category for their presentation Engineering Nanomedicines to Address Unmet Needs in Healthcare. ​Kayra Oğuz wins Third Place in the Tandon Research Excellence Exhibit Vertically Integrated Projects Category for her team's presentation Plastic Degradation via Microbial Consortium.
2025 April
Our publication Development of DNase-1 Loaded Polymeric Nanoparticles Synthesized by Inverse Flash Nanoprecipitation for Neutrophil-Mediated Drug Delivery to in vitro Thrombi by Sophie Maiocchi, Erica Burnham, A. Cartaya, V. Lisi, N. Beuchler, Rachel Pollard, D. Babaki, W. Bergmeier, and Nathalie Pinkerton*, E. Bahnson* is accepted to Advanced Healthcare Materials.
2025 April
Nathalie Pinkerton is awarded the Northeast Bioengineering Conference NEBEC 2025 Emerging Investigator Award.
2025 April
Our publication Sequential nanoprecipitation for theranostics: Resolving assembly timescale mismatch in composite nanoparticle synthesis by Rachel Pollard, Nouha El Amri, Parker Lewis, Zaq Ponce, Ashley Han, Xiuxian Li, and Nathalie Pinkerton* is accepted to AIChE Journal.
2025 March
Nathalie Pinkerton is featured in the news! Read the article It's a SNaP: New Technique Paves Way for Scalable Therapeutic Nanoparticle Manufacturing on IEEE Spectrum here.
2025 April
Our journal cover is published and is selected to be part of the Women in Materials Science special issue!
2025 January
Our undergraduate students Zaq Ponce & Sue Li are featured in the NYU News Story 7 Enterprising Undergrads on Why Their Research Can't Wait. Read their mention here.
2024 December
Welcome to our newest Pinkie, Dr. Franck Razafindrainibe!
2024 December
Zaq Ponce wins first place in Materials Engineering & Sciences Poster Presentations at AIChE 2024.
2024 November
Kiana Bahrami wins a Poster Presentation award in AIChE Division 15 2024. Erica Burnham, Kiana Bahrami, Rachel Pollard win the NYU Conference Travel Award.
2024 October
Nathalie Pinkerton wins the NYU Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowship Award!!
2024 October
Zaq Ponce and Sue Li win First Place in the Most Creative UGSRP Video Presentation Contest! Kayra Oğuz wins Third Place in the Most Creative UGSRP Video Presentation Contest.
2024 August
Our publication Design of Modular, 3D-Printed Millifluidic Mixers to Enable Sequential NanoPrecipitation (SNaP) for the Tunable Synthesis of Drug-Loaded Nanoparticles and Microparticles by Thomas Belinky, Nouha El Amri, Parker Lewis, Allie Karakosta LeMay, Rachel Pollard, and Nathalie Pinkerton is accepted to Advanced Materials Technologies.
2024 July
Kiana Bahrami wins third place for an oral presentation at AMPIRS.
2024 June
Congratulations to our graduating students, Vic Hempstead, Ashley Han, Lucy Stevens, Thomas Belinky!

Vic Hempstead wins the American Institute of Chemists Award and will be starting a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University as an NSF Fellow.

Ashley Han wins the Simeon Gang Award and will be starting a position at Amgen.
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Lucy Stevens wins the CBE Achievement Award and will be starting a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University.

Zaq Ponce wins the Oustanding First Year Chemistry Award.
2024 May
Vic Hempstead is awarded the prestigious 2024 NSF GRFP Fellowship Award!!
2024 March
Amy Moreno is specially selected to present their work during the ACS BIOT Sci-Mix event while at ACS 2024. They also win the ACS-BIOT Travel Subsidy Award.
2024 March
Welcome to our newest Pinkie, Alexia Kaloudis!
2024 March
Nouha El Amri is awarded the NYU Postdoctoral Research & Professional Development Support Grant.
2023 August
Vic Hempstead is awarded the Julian R. Reasenberg Memorial Award.
2023 May
Congratulations to Erica Burnham, M.S., for successfully defending her Master's Thesis!
2023 May
Parker Lewis​ is awarded the NYU Tandon Eli Pearce Fellowship.
2023 May
Nouha El Amri is awarded the NYU Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship.
2023 February
Amy Moreno is awarded the GMiS STEM DOW Scholarship.
2023 January
Nathalie Pinkerton​ is awarded the Wechsler Faculty Excellence Award.
2022 October
Rachel Pollard wins the Women in Chemical Engineering Travel Award.
2022 October
Congratulations to Rachel Pollard and Amy Moreno for organizing a great research experience for our summer ARISE students!
2022 August
Vic Hempstead is awarded a Thompson Bartlett Fellowship to support their summer research experience in the Pinkerton Lab.
2022 June
Parker Lewis wins First Place in Best Oral Presentation for his work on nanoparticles as a novel pain therapeutic approach at the NYU AMPIRS 2022 symposium.
2022 June
Amy Moreno wins the ACS Bridge Career & Professional Development Award.
2022 March
Sophie Maiocchi wins a prestigious NIH K99 award.
2022 January
Amy Moreno is awarded the NYU Tandon Future Leader PhD Fellowship.
2021 September
Amy Moreno is selected for an internship at ORNL as a GEM Fellow.
2021 July
Amy Moreno is awarded the highest honor of GEM PhD Engineering: Employer Fellowship.
2021 April