{"id":230,"date":"2017-07-10T07:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T12:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:01:49","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Welcome to the Dobson Lab. Our work focuses on biomedical applications of magnetic micro- and nanoparticles for applications such as Magnetic Activation of Receptor Signaling (MARS) \/ Magnetic Ion Channel Activation (MICA), magnetically triggered release and activation of biomacromolecules, magnetic nanoparticle-based gene transfection, and novel magnetic separation systems for in vivo recovery of osteoarthritis biomarkers and extra corporeal blood filtering.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>We are very active in device design and fabrication to support this research and three companies have been founded based on this work:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micabiosystems.com\">MICA BioSystems<\/a> (United Kingdom)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanotherics.com\">nanoTherics<\/a> (United Kingdom)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.42bio.com\">42Bio<\/a> (US)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>In addition, we do a lot of work on magnetic micro- and nanoparticle synthesis, surface functionalization, and characterization, and have projects examining the role of brain iron in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer&#8217;s and Parkinsons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-442\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/07\/MagnetMan-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/07\/MagnetMan-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/07\/MagnetMan-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/07\/MagnetMan-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/07\/MagnetMan-311x210.jpg 311w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/07\/MagnetMan.jpg 1433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Dobson Lab. Our work focuses on biomedical applications of magnetic micro- and nanoparticles for applications such as Magnetic Activation of Receptor Signaling (MARS) \/ Magnetic Ion Channel Activation (MICA), magnetically triggered release and activation of biomacromolecules, magnetic nanoparticle-based gene transfection, and novel magnetic separation systems for in vivo recovery of osteoarthritis biomarkers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-none.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-230","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}