Owen S. Fenton
@TheFentonLab
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Ast. Prof. @UNC @DPMP_UNC | mRNA LNPs | @MIT PhD/PDoc (Anderson/Langer) | @NIH @NIGMS R35 MIRA PI; @NIH @NIBIB Trailblazer R21 PI | NSF GRFP, Goldwater Scholar
UNC Chapel Hill
Joined October 2020
RT @UNCPharmacy: Congratulations to #UNCPharmacy professor Owen Fenton for receiving the 2025 @AAPSComms Emerging Leader Award! This award….
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RT @DPMP_UNC: Huge congratulations to @TheFentonLab on the 2025 @AAPSComms Emerging Leader Award! Recognized for his significant impact in….
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@JulieNguyenLab @BowenLi_Lab @gzzhujoy @yizhoudonglab @UNCPharmacy @DPMP_UNC Also, a sincere thank you to @JulieNguyenLab for spearheading my nomination, to @alkabanov for his support, and to all past and present mentors that I have had throughout my career!! . (3 of 3).
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Honored to join the group of past recipients including @JulieNguyenLab, @BowenLi_Lab, Raman Bahal, @gzzhujoy, Qi (Tony) Zhou, @yizhoudonglab, and James Moon!! Also a sincere thank you to @UNCPharmacy, to @DPMP_UNC, and to all Fenton Lab Team Members past and present!! . (2 of X).
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Excited to receive the 2025 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Emerging Leader Award!! A sincere thank you to the organizers and to the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) | @aapscomms for this recognition!! . (1 of X).
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Happy to share our manuscript "CloneFast: A simple plasmid design and construction guide for labs venturing into synthetic biology" in Cell Press @STARProtocols! Congrats Vincent Fung & @PalasTiwade!. Link: @UNC, @UNCPharmacy, @DPMP_UNC, @CellPressNews.
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Happy to share our latest manuscript published in Nature Reviews Bioengineering @natrevbioeng @NaturePortfolio - "Using 'Supporting Molecules' (SUMs) to improve mRNA LNP Therapies!" @rachel_vkm, Vincent Fung, @UNC, @UNCPharmacy , @DPMP_UNC . Link here:
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RT @DPMP_UNC: Congratulations to @TheFentonLab for 2 recent awards. Received an @RNADiscovery Collaborative Award, in collaboration with D….
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RT @JulieNguyenLab: We're incredibly grateful to the #NIH for supporting our research with a $3 million 4-year R01 grant to develop targete….
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RT @RNADiscovery: Congratulations to the two amazing recipient groups of this year’s RNA Discovery Collaborative Award!. 🏆 Dr. Mauro Calabr….
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Excited to share that Fenton lab has been awarded a Pump-Priming Grant to support our team's research efforts with Emma McErlean!! Huge thanks to @UNC and @QUBelfast and all involved for supporting our team!! . @UNCPharmacy @DPMP_UNC.
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Huge congrats to Fenton Lab member @PalasTiwade for winning the Feng Liu Graduate Excellence Award! This award is given to a @DPMP_UNC PhD student who has a significant number of pubs, has shown research excellence, and embodies Dr. Liu. Way to go, Palas! @UNC, @UNCPharmacy.
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Excited to share that Fenton lab has been awarded a UNC RNA Discovery Collaborative Grant in collaboration with the lab of Prof. Dr. Rihe Liu! Huge thanks to the @RNADiscovery for this award, super excited to work on this! . @UNC @UNCPharmacy @DPMP_UNC @ChadPecot.
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Happy to share our MS "Customizable Polymeric Nanoparticle Materials Optimized on Hypoxic Cells Facilitate mRNA Expression in the Lungs In Vivo" at Adv. Healthcare Materials! @PalasTiwade @ma_yutian @rachel_vkm @ENarasipura @UNC @UNCPharmacy @DPMP_UNC.
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
This study introduces a Tunable Lung Expressing Nanoparticle Platform (TULEP) to enhance mRNA delivery and translation in the lungs, even under hypoxic conditions. Using combinatorial polymer...
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Happy to share our latest manuscript in @ACS_AMI "A Metabolite Co-Delivery Strategy to Improve mRNA Lipid Nanoparticle Delivery"! Congrats to the team @ma_yutian, Vincent Fung, @rachel_vkm, @PalasTiwade @ENarasipura, Nicole Gill. @UNCPharmacy @DPMP_UNC.
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Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) effectively protect mRNA and facilitate its entry into target cells for protein synthesis. Despite these successes, cellular entry alone may not be enough for optimal...
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RT @UNCPharmacy: From the lab bench to the pottery wheel, @DPMP_UNC Professor @JulieNguyenLab dedicates much of her time to enhancing and e….
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Dr. Juliane Nguyen leads ground-breaking research on ways to more effectively deliver therapeutics to better treat heart attacks and colitis
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Congrats to Fenton Lab postdoc Vincent Fung for receiving a @UNCPharmacy Mentorship Kudos Award for excelling in mentoring others in the lab! And thanks to all group members for showing up to support Vincent! @PalasTiwade, @ENarasipura, @rachel_vkm, Nicole Gill, Sawyer Anderson !
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RT @DPMP_UNC: Thrilled to announce that @JulieNguyenLab in collaboration with Dr. Tom Egan received an @NIH #R21 grant. This funding will s….
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