10/31/2025

Huge Congrats to Ivy Do, who got the Rising Researcher Award that recognizes exceptional undergrads and only 5 students got selected every year!!

09/17/2025

Ourwork titled "Disease-Severity-Responsive, Inverse-Targeting Nanoparticles Enable Potent Ghrelin mRNA Therapy in Osteoarthritis" was just accepted in Nature Nanotechnology!! 

09/01/2025

Our lab is awarded an AARG research grant from the Alzheimer's Association!

06/25/2025

Huge congrats to Amanda, Ivy, and Kiruba for being awarded Honors Research Grant!

10/01/2024

Our lab was awarded a research grant from the Elsa Pardee Foundation!

08/15/2024

Welcome Canyuan and Ziyue as our new Ph.D. students!

06/24/2024

Welcome highschool student Helen to join us as a summer intern !

06/12/2024

Welcome Dr. Zunkai Xu to join us as a postdoc associate !

06/08/2024

Our review article "Precision Drug Delivery to the Central Nervous System Using Engineered Nanoparticles" was accepted for publication in Nature Reviews Materials! 

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05/20/2024

Our review article "Gene Therapy for CNS Disorders: Modalities, Delivery and Translational Challenges" was accepted for publication in Nature Reviews Neuroscience!! 

Congrats to co-author Kiruba, who is undergrad researcher in our lab!

04/15/2024

Our review article "Precise modulation and use of reactive oxygen species for immunotherapy" was accepted for publication in Science Advances!

01/25/2024

Welcome our first cohort of undergrads: Ivy, Kiruba, Ali, Kayvon, Clara!

01/25/2024

Welcome our first PhD student Jingyan Liu to join the lab! 

09/01/2023 

The Gao Lab is up and running!