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Professor of Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Material Sciences & Medicine, Distinguished Professor of Translational Research, BUnano Director

Boston, MA
Joined November 2015
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Mark G.
1 year
Drs. Wong & Douam & our teams are excited to share our paper in @NatureBiotech reporting on how modified self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) enables potent low dose vaccines, because unlike mRNA, saRNA is functional for a month. https://t.co/LRWL5lYxLI @BostonU_BME @neidl @BUCollegeofENG
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Happy Halloween from the Grinstaff Group - our annual costume surprise was a great success
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Boston University Nanotechnology Innovation Center
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BUnano Center director @Grinstaff and former BUnano alumni Dr. Brett Tingley and Dr. Andrew Martin and Dr. Aaron Colby collaborated on a recent publication on using nanoparticles for antiviral therapy for coronavirus infections
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SARS-CoV-2 can infect cells through endocytic uptake, a process that is targeted by inhibition of lysosomal proteases. However, clinically this approach to treat viral infections has afforded mixed...
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Mark G.
6 months
Congratulations to Dr Brett Tingley, the lab’s most recent @BostonU_BME PhD who successfully defended his dissertation “Therapeutic TAC-nology & Targeted Drug Delivery for Precision Medicines”. He will be joining our group as a Postdoctoral Associate . #proudtoBU
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7 months
Extremely honored to be inducted into @CRSScience College of Fellows in recognition of my work on drug delivery & novel materials, and their translation toward diverse biomedical applications . #crs2025 @BUCollegeofENG @BUexperts #proudtoBU
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7 months
End of one journey, start of another one … @BostonU_BME @BUChemistry @BUCollegeofENG @BU_CAS
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Mark G.
7 months
Congratulations to Dr. Joshua McGee on brilliantly defending his dissertation “Overcoming The Innate Sensing Of Self-Amplifying RNA For Improved Vaccines & Therapeutics”. #proudtoBU @BostonU_BME #saRNA
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Mark G.
8 months
Congratulation to Dr. Sara El-Arid, our newest Ph.D. who brilliantly defended her dissertation “Development of scalable synthetic methods to access architecturally complex polymer materials”. She will join Dr. Amanda Garner’s lab as postdoc @UMichPharmacy @BUChemistry #proudtoBU
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AlbroLab
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Thanks for highlighting our work! @Grinstaff @BergholtLab
@OACJournal
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journals
9 months
🚨 April #OAC #EditorsChoice #BasicScience 🚨 This work by Kazemi et al. demonstrates how Raman arthroscopy is a transformative tool to evaluate, monitor, and treat cartilage injuries. @Albrolab @Grinstaff Read more here 🔗 https://t.co/AMoFhXzTwC
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@BUCollegeofENG
BU Engineering
8 months
Congratulations to Wilson Wong, member of the Class of 2025 of the AIMBE College of Fellows! https://t.co/P90uKJgh5Y
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Mark G.
8 months
Congrats to Christian, Anisha, & Taylor for their @ACS_AMI paper https://t.co/8j2j75AZNY. They report a novel dual purpose nanoparticle which lubricates & protects cartilage & is a diagnostic probe for differentiating health from degraded cartilage using computed tomography.
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Introducing additives to industrial lubricants reduces friction and wear between articulating metal surfaces by mechanistically impeding interfacial adhesion, heat dissipation, and abrasion. With...
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Mark G.
9 months
Congratulations to Dr. Christian DeMoya on the brilliant defense of his dissertation titled “Addressing the pathological mechanisms of osteoarthritis using rationally designed biomaterials”, #proudtoBU @BostonU_BME @BUgradBME
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Mark G.
10 months
Last day of #ORS2025 . Exciting meeting with former postdoc Dr Janne Mäkelä of @UniEastFinland chairing a session and Erik Ersland of @AlbroLab delivering his talk on new results using Raman spectroscopy in horses to evaluate cartilage quality and repair success . @BuMechE
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Mark G.
10 months
Great talks and posters by Sadat and Dev @AlbroLab . Wonderful to meet up at @ORSsociety poster session with Dr Brad Nelson who is doing amazing work at @CSUVetMedBioSci #ORS2025
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10 months
Great @ORSsociety meeting #ORS2025
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Mark G.
10 months
Huge thanks to INRAD for bringing the now FDA-approved Trilogy Breast Tissue Marker to market! Exciting past work by Dr. Kaplan & Dr. Bloch! 🔬📢 https://t.co/rxqy7XNu7D This is 4th #GrinstaffLab clinical product - research that improves clinical care #proudtoBU #BreastCancer
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Mark G.
11 months
Great talk by Nicholas Stephanapolous of @ASU titled "Supramolecular synthesis using proteins, peptides, and DNA"  Thanks @BostonU_BME & @BunanoCenter for hosting the talk.
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Mark G.
1 year
Congratulations to @BUChemistry graduate student Alina Ringaci on being awarded the @PhRMAfoundation 2025 Predoctoral Fellowship in Drug Delivery. #proudtoBU @BU_Tweets @BostonUResearch
@PhRMAfoundation
PhRMA Foundation
1 year
The PhRMA Foundation awarded 34 early-career researchers a total of $2.5 million in 2025 fellowships and grants focused on drug discovery, drug delivery, and translational medicine research. View the list of awardees: https://t.co/OZ9wacKRyf
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Mark G.
1 year
Congratulations to Joshua McGee and Jordan Smiley for winning the @BostonU_BME department’s Best Paper of the Year and Graduate Student of the Year awards. Wishing them continued success in 2025! #proudtoBU
@BostonU_BME
Boston University Biomedical Engineering
1 year
Join us today in Photonics! Jan Lammerding, PhD will be the Distinguished Speaker at BU BME’s 21st Annual Graduate Research Symposium. Friday, December 13th, 1:20 at PHO 906. The annual symposium is sponsored by 4 NIH Training Grants: Quantitative Biology & Physiology,
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Mark G.
1 year
Excited to host @MJMitchell_Lab at @BostonU_BME @BunanoCenter as the TRB Distinguished Biomaterials Speaker on November 18.
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Mark G.
1 year
Congratulations to Zoe Garman on presenting her poster “Exploring the dual hormonal and anti-fibrotic role of relaxin-2 in uterine fibroids” at the @ASRM_org annual meeting #ASRM2024 @BUgradBME @BostonU_BME
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