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Michelle R. Dawson Michelle R. Dawson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332
Phone: 404-894-5192
Fax: 404-385-2713
Location:GT: Ford ES&T - L1220
E-Mail: mdawson@jhu.edu
URL: http://www.chbe.gatech.edu/dawson/

Areas of Research

    Gene delivery, stem cell engineering, cell biophysics and cancer.

Educational Background

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, 2005-2008
  • Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 2005
  • B.S., Louisiana Tech University, 1999

Selected Awards

  • 2007, Carl Storm Minority Fellowship for attending the Gordon Research Conference
  • 2006, Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Minority Fellowship
  • 2001-2005, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
  • 2004, CRS-Capsugel/Pfizer Innovative Aspects of Oral Drug Delivery and Absorption Graduate Student/Post-Doc Award
  • 2004, Science and Engineering Education Scholars Program Travel Award
  • 2001-2004, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Minority Fellowship
  • 2003, International Society for Aerosol Medicine Student Research Award (one award is given every two years)
  • 2003, Biophysical Society FASEB MARC Travel Award
  • 2000-2001, Achievement Rewards for College Students Fellowship

Selected Research Publications

  • Suh J, Dawson M, Hanes J. (2005). Real-time particle tracking: Applications to drug and gene delivery, Adv Drug Del Rev, 57:63-78.
  • Dawson M, Krauland E, Wirtz D, Hanes J. (2004). Transport of polymeric nanoparticle gene carriers in gastric mucus, Biotech Prog, 20(3):851-857.
  • Dawson M., Wirtz D., and Hanes J. (2003). Enhanced viscoelasticity of human cystic fibrotic sputum correlates with increasing microheterogeneity in particle transport, J. Biol. Chem., 278:50393-50401.
  • Hanes J, Dawson M, Har-el Y, Suh J, Fiegel J (2003). Gene delivery to the lung. In Pharmaceutical Inhalation Aerosol Technology, AJ Hickey (Ed.), 2nd Ed., pp. 489-539. Marcel Dekker Inc., New York.
  • Dawson M, Wirtz D, Zeitlin PL, Boyle MP, Hanes J, N-acetyl-L-cysteine decreases while rhDNase unexpectedly increases the Cystic Fibrosis sputum barrier to nanoparticle movement, submitted.
  • Perentes JY, McKee TD, Ley CD, Mathiew H, Dawson M, Padera TP, Munn LL, Jain RK, Boucher Y. In vivo imaging of extracellular matrix remodeling by tumor-associated fibroblasts, accepted to Nature Methods.


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