Category: Natural Killer Cell Immunotherapy

Sharma Lab at Biomaterials Day 2026 On March 10, the Sharma Lab attended a regional Biomaterials Day hosted at the University of Florida. Eight universities across Florida attended talks from both invited academic and industry speakers, as well as student speakers from many of the attending universities. Rylee Newport (Ph.D. Candidate – Biomedical Engineering) presented […]

Congratulations to Dr. Suzanne Lightsey on the successful defense of her thesis and graduation! During the Fall 2025 semester, Dr. Suzanne Lightsey successfully defended her thesis, Engineered Biomaterials for Investigating Natural Killer Cell Infiltration. Her work aimed to further our understanding of how Natural Killer (NK) cells interact with the extracellular matrices (ECM) of tumors […]

Congratulations to Rylee Newport and Dr. Suzanne Lightsey on presenting at TERMIS-AM 2025! In November, 2025, Sharma Lab members Rylee Newport and Dr. Suzanne Lightsey presented their research at TERMIS-AM 2025 in Detroit, MI. The focus of the conference was “Next Generation Tools for Regenerative Medicine.” Rylee Newport presented a poster on her work, 3D […]

Sharma Lab at Pruitt Research Day On September 29th, Touraj Amrabadi (Ph.D. Candidate – Chemical Engineering) and Rylee Newport (Ph.D. Student – Biomedical Engineering) presented their research at Pruitt Research Day in poster presentations. Touraj shared his work on manganese dioxide nanoparticles, and how they are used as reactive oxygen species scavengers to target oxidative […]

Sharma Lab at the Tissue Engineering GRC 2025 The Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Gordon Research Conference (GRC) was held the summer of 2025 in Barcelona, Spain. Suzanne Lightsey, a Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. candidate in the Sharma Lab, presented a poster on her research on natural killer (NK) cell infiltration in solid tumor models. She and […]