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Smitty Oakes
@oakesimmuno.bsky.social
The Oakes Research Laboratory in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Delaware. We decode and engineer the innate immune system to improve immunotherapy and biomedical implant effectiveness.

Lab website: https://oakesimmuno.com
3) Thanks to Utah BME for the newsletter feature and interview on my career path! It’s always great to connect with folks at my alma mater. More on these stories on our lab website at oakesimmuno.com.
July 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
2) Our team welcomed Elizabeth Miczuga as a Summer Scholar through the NSF's Accelerating Research Translation (ART) program! Elizabeth is working with Lauren Porter on a new platform for drug delivery and tissue engineering.
July 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Excited for the plenary talks and sessions on immunoengineering, women's health, biofabrication, organs-on-chips, cell therapies, and the latest advances in tissue engineering!
Plenary Speakers: am2025.termis.org/plenary-spea...
Sessions: am2025.termis.org/abstract-cat...
TERMIS-AM 2025 Annual Conference & Exhibition | Plenary Speakers
Discover the plenary speakers who will join us for the TERMIS-AM 2025 Annual Conference & Exhibition in Detroit, Michigan, from November 9-12, 2025
am2025.termis.org
May 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
We’ll be posting our resources and protocols online in the coming months to support collaborations. We’ve initially set up systems for high-content gene expression and will soon be installing equipment that dovetails with these techniques for high-throughput immunotherapy design and benchmarking.
March 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
There is also no way we’d be up and running experiments without our Lab Manager Kejian Li. Team science!
March 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM