Owen S. Fenton

Excited to share that my lab has been awarded a #NIH #R35 #MIRA Grant from the National Institute of General Medicine @NIGMS! This grant will allow my lab to investigate and manipulate cells in low oxygen environments using lipid nanoparticles! @UNC @UNCPharmacy @DPMP_UNC

Happy to share our latest manuscript in JACS "Characterizing the Impact of the Cell Cycle on mRNA Lipid Nanoparticles"!! @rachel_vkm amyaponte @PalasTiwade @ENarasipura vincentfung sawyerandersen nicolegill mikeemanuele Link here: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… @DPMP_UNC @UNC_ESOP

Happy to share our latest manuscript titled "Non-viral gene delivery for non-small cell lung cancer" at Annals of Translational Medicine! Congrats to the team - Vincent Fung, Nicole Gill, and Sawyer Andersen! Link here: journals.lww.com/atm/fulltext/2… @DPMP_UNC @UNCPharmacy @UNC

@AliceStanton Thank you!!

Great summary! Worth a read. Go @TheFentonLab!

@RNADiscovery Thank you!!

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Owen Fenton for receiving the 2025 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Emerging Leader Award! Thank you for your contributions and leadership, Dr. Owen Fenton! We are proud to spotlight our amazing members! #RNADiscoveryCenter

New pub from @TheFentonLab in @NatureProtocols , “mRNA lipid nanoparticle formulation, characterization and evaluation” Read at 🔗 below DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41596… @UNCPharmacy

@kjmchugh1 @NatureNano Congrats!!

Our paper on SABER hydrogels is out in @NatureNano! 💥 These gels use dynamic covalent bonding to release drugs over weeks to months and work with a wide range of payloads. Here we show single-injection efficacy in diabetes & TB + compatibility w/ antibody & sm mol drugs. Links➡️

Congratulations to #UNCPharmacy professor Owen Fenton for receiving the 2025 @AAPSComms Emerging Leader Award! This award recognizes Owen's significant impact in the pharmaceutical sciences and his leadership in the global pharmaceutical community!

@UNCPharmacy @AAPSComms Thank you!

@DPMP_UNC @AAPSComms @UNCPharmacy Thank you!!

Huge congratulations to @TheFentonLab on the 2025 @AAPSComms Emerging Leader Award!  Recognized for his significant impact in PharmSci and his "bright future as a leader in the global community." We’re proud of his achievements & work during his time with DPMP! @UNCPharmacy

@JulieNguyenLab @BowenLi_Lab @gzzhujoy @yizhoudonglab @UNCPharmacy @DPMP_UNC Also, a sincere thank you to @JulieNguyenLab for spearheading my nomination, to @alkabanov for his support, and to all past and present mentors that I have had throughout my career!! (3 of 3)

Honored to join the group of past recipients including @JulieNguyenLab, @BowenLi_Lab, Raman Bahal, @gzzhujoy, Qi (Tony) Zhou, @yizhoudonglab, and James Moon!! Also a sincere thank you to @UNCPharmacy, to @DPMP_UNC, and to all Fenton Lab Team Members past and present!! (2 of X)

Excited to receive the 2025 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Emerging Leader Award!! A sincere thank you to the organizers and to the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) | @aapscomms for this recognition!! (1 of X)

@AliasgerSalem Congrats!!

S5G Therapeutics Inc. (S5G) was recognized by the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center today in Ames. S5G is committed to improving the lives of patients with unresolved ocular surface diseases, including dry eyes disease, by providing powerful pharmaceutical solutions.

@JulieNguyenLab @DPMP_UNC Congrats!!

Another newly minted PhD from the Nguyen Lab! Congratulations, Dr. Timothy Little! Excellent job on your doctoral work focused on engineering a novel biparatopic CCR2 antibody for the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer. @DPMP_UNC

Happy to share our manuscript "CloneFast: A simple plasmid design and construction guide for labs venturing into synthetic biology" in Cell Press @STARProtocols! Congrats Vincent Fung & @PalasTiwade! Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @UNC, @UNCPharmacy, @DPMP_UNC, @CellPressNews

@DPMP_UNC @ameya_chaudhari @JulieNguyenLab @UNCPharmacy Congrats!!

Congrats to @ameya_chaudhari on the successful defense of his PhD thesis. His dedication & contributions within @JulieNguyenLab have been exemplary. We are proud of the achievements he has earned. Cheers, Dr. Chaudhari, we look forward to your continued success. @UNCPharmacy

@JulieNguyenLab Congrats!!

Excited to congratulate Nguyen Lab’s newest PhD, Dr. Ameya Chaudhari, PhD! We are incredibly proud of Ameya’s accomplishments and excited to see the impact of his work in the years to come.

@_ChandraB Congrats!!

Thrilled to share that our lab has been awarded a #R35 #MIRA grant from @NIGMS. This $1.88M award will support our work in engineering novel lipid nanoparticle platforms for targeted mRNA delivery beyond the liver.

@_ChandraB @wileyinresearch @IvanIsaac199 Congrats!!

Our latest research is out in Small! We introduce endogenous corticosteroid-derived LNPs (cortico-LNPs), in which the cholesterol component is replaced, achieving complete redirection to the spleen.@wileyinresearch #publishedarticle @IvanIsaac199 Luv Patel doi.org/10.1002/smll.2…