Two Jain Lab members received the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award
Grace Shoemaker and Dylan Carmen received the National Science Foundation GRFP
Title: FIVE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SENIORS AWARDED THE NSF GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Source/Author: NSF/ Chemical Engineering
Date: May 1, 2023
 
Dr. Jain wins the 2022-2023 Excellence Award for Assistant Professors at the college level
Only one Assistant Professor was selected by the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Source/Author: Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Date: April 28, 2023
 
 
A graduate student wins the 2022-2023 Attributes of a Gator Engineer Award for Creativity
Santosh Rananaware, PhD candidate, won the award at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

Awards

Source/Author: Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Date: April 28, 2023
 
 
 Two Jain Lab members won the 2022 AIChE undergraduate poster competition
Katelyn Meister (1st) and Grace Shoemaker (3rd) won the AIChE poster competition
Source/Author: AIChE/ UF Chemical Engineering
Date: Nov 18, 2022
 
 
Dr. Jain coauthored in a study published in Nature Communications
A nanopore based for detecting HIV co-developed with University of South Carolina researchers
Source/Author: Nature Communications
Date: Nov 11, 2023
 
Dr. Jain hosted 2022 Shah Lecture and Shah Symposium
Shah Lecturer: Prof. Matthew Tirrell (Dean, U of Chicago); Shah Symposium: 8 invited speakers
Source/Author: Department of Chemical Engineering
Date: Oct 22, 2022
 
17 Jain Lab members collaborated to develop SPLENDID 
SPLENDID features development of a highly thermostable Cas12b protein
Source/Author: medRxiv, Twitter
Date: Oct 4, 2022
 
Jain received the NIH, NIGMS 2022 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35)
Jain Lab receives $1.83M MIRA award for discovering CRISPR/Cas (R35GM147788)
Source/Author: NIH/NIGMS (PI: Jain)
Date: Sep 1, 2022
Jain Lab received a collaborative R01 funding
Jain Lab subawarded an R01 grant on detecting malaria in Africa (1R01AI165537)
Source/Author: NIH/NIAID (PI: Juliano, et al.; Co-I: Jain, et al.)
Date: July 25, 2022
Dr. Jain discussed CRISPR diagnostics in a DDN webinar
Source/Author: DDN/Piyush K. Jain
Date: June 22, 2022
Jain Lab received NIH, NIAID R21
Jain Lab received $0.42M R21 award for discriminating HCV genotypes (1R21AI168795)
Source/Author: NIH/NIAID (PI: Jain; Co-I: Wang)
Date: May 1, 2022
Dr. Jain discussed CRISPR diagnostics as a TEDx speaker
How CRISPR can revolutionize diagnostics
Source/Author: TEDxUF/Piyush K. Jain
Date: Mar 20, 2022
News coverage on COVID variant test with CRISPR-SPADE
Source/Author: Futurity/University of Florida News/Catherine Arnold

Date: Mar 21, 2022

Source/Author: University of Florida News/Catherine Arnold
Date: Mar 18, 2022
 
Source/Author: University of Florida News/Catherine Arnold
Date: Mar 17, 2022
 
COVID-19 variant test published in The Lancet’s EBioMedicine
Identified a new thermophilic BrCas12b & combined with RT-LAMP to create a one-pot COVID variant test
Source/Author: EBioMedicine- The Lancet/Long Nguyen, Nicolas Macaluso, Brianna Pizzano, Melanie Cash, Jan Spacek, Jan Karasek, Megan Miller, John Lednicky, Rhoel Dinglasan, Marco Salemi, Piyush Jain
Date: Mar 12, 2022
 
 
COVID-19 variant test published in Preprints with The Lancet
The updated CRISPR-SPADE test discriminates all 5 SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern
Source/Author: Preprints with THE LANCET/Long Nguyen, Nicolas Macaluso, Brianna Pizzano, Melanie Cash, Jan Spacek, Jan Karasek, Rhoel Dinglasan, Marco Salemi, Piyush Jain
Date: Jan 20, 2022
 
https://connection.cancer.ufl.edu/november-2021/november-monthly-haas/
Behind the paper blog on Nature Portfolio
Next-Generation CRISPR Diagnostics with ENHANCEv2
Source/Author: Nature Portfolio Health/Santosh Rananaware, Brianna Pizzano, Piyush K. Jain
Date: Jan 20, 2022
 
ENHANCEv1 & ENHANCEv2 validation published in Communications Medicine- Nature
Clinical validation of engineered CRISPR/Cas12a for rapid SARS-CoV-2 detection
Source/Author: Communications Medicine (Nature Portfolio)/Long Nguyen, Santosh Rananaware, Brianna Pizzano, Brandon Stone, Piyush K. Jain
Date: Jan 12, 2022
 
Jain received the collaborative UFHCC GU-Cancer Pilot Award (PI: Jain)
Jain Lab receives $100K UFHCC Pilot award for detecting bladder cancer at an early stage
Source/Author: UFHCC Pilot Award
Team 1: Mei He (PI), Padraic O’ Malley (Co-PI)
Team 2: Piyush Jain (PI), Brian Ramnaraign (Co-PI)
Date: Nov 1, 2021
 
 

CRISPR-SPADE preprint published in the medRxiv

Single-Pot Assay for Detecting Emerging VOCs (CRISPR-SPADE)
Source/Author: medRxiv preprint server
Date: Oct 18, 2021
 
 
 Our team received $10M funding from the CDC (PI: Dinglasan)
Source/Author: UF Health/ DeLene Beeland

Date: Sep 3, 2021

 
NIH awarded an R21 grant to the Jain lab (PI: Jain)
Source/Author: NIH NIAID

Date: Sep 1, 2021

 
cCRISPR preprint published in the medRxiv
Source/Author: medRxiv preprint server
Date: Dec 24, 2020
 
 
Jain named holder of the Shah Rising Star Professorship
Source/Author: UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering/ Department of Chemical Engineering
Date: Mar 19, 2021
 
CRISPR-ENHANCE highlighted in the COVID TechConnect Innovation Spotlight
An enhanced nucleic acid detection platform using Cas12a
Source/Author: COVID TechConnect Innovation Spotlight Summit/ Piyush K. Jain
Date: Feb 17, 2021
 
CRISPR-ENHANCE published in Methods journal
An enhanced nucleic acid detection platform using Cas12a
Source/Author: Methods/Long T.Nguyen, JeevanGurijala, Santosh R.Rananaware, Brianna L.M.Pizzano, Brandon T.Stone, Piyush K.Jain
Date: Feb 9, 2021
 
ENHANCE AND ENHANCEv2 preprint published in the medRxiv
Engineered CRISPR/Cas12a Enables Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Detection
Source/Author: medRxiv preprint server
Date: Dec 24, 2020
 
 
TEAM SELECTED AS XPRIZE SEMIFINALIST
CRISPR-ENHANCE team selected as a semifinalist for XPRIZE COVID-19 Competition
Source/Author: UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Date: Nov 18, 2020
 
EXPERT OPINION ON NOBEL PRIZE FOR CRISPR
Nobel Prize for chemistry honors exquisitely precise gene-editing technique, CRISPR
– a gene engineer explains how it works



Published: By over 1500+ news websites
Source/Author: Piyush K. Jain/The Conversation
Date: October 7, 2020
 
CRISPR-ENHANCE PUBLISHED IN NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Enhancement of trans-cleavage activity of Cas12a with 
engineered crRNA enables amplified nucleic acid detection
Source/Author: Nature Communications/Long T. Nguyen, Brianna M. Smith & Piyush K. Jain* [*Corresponding Author]
Date: Sep 30, 2020
 

AWARDED A COVID-19 IGNITION GRANT FROM USISTEF (PI: Jain)

Date: Sep 2, 2020
 

AWARDED A FLORIDA BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION GRANT (PI: Jain)

Jain awarded grant to develop a CRISPR-based urine test for early 
detection of breast cancer
Source/Author: Michelle Runyon/Department of Chemical Engineering, UF
Date: July 1, 2020
 

NEWS COVERAGE ON SARS-CoV-2 DETECTION

Researchers hope CRISPR gene-editing technology can yield rapid 
at-home COVID-19 test
Source/Author: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio/Show Day 6 (Listen to Podcast)
Date: May 29, 2020
UF researchers develop at-home COVID-19 test
Source/Author: The Alligator/Ariana Aspuru
Date: May 17, 2020
Rapid home-based coronavirus tests are coming together in research labs


Published: By over 2000+ news websites
Source/Author: The Conversation/Piyush K. Jain
Date: May 20, 2020
Developing a next-generation coronavirus test for home use
Source/Author: University of Florida News/Alisson Clark
Date: April 22, 2020
Source/Author: Department of Chemical Engineering News, University of Florida/Michelle Runyon
Date: April 14, 2020
 

CRISPR-ENHANCE PREPRINT PUBLISHED IN THE BIORXIV

BOOK CHAPTER PUBLISHED

First book chapter published from Jain lab.
Source/Author: Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications, Marco Downing, Piyush K. Jain*  [*Corresponding Author]
Date: November 29, 2019
 

Expert Opinion on CRISPR-edited T-Cells for cancer



Published: By over 2000+ news websites
Source/Author: The Conversation/Piyush K. Jain
Date: Nov 18, 2019
 

CRISPR-GPS PUBLISHED IN NANOSCALE

First publication from Jain lab members. 
First co-corresponding Author paper by Prof. Jain with Prof. Bhatia.
Source/Author: Nanoscale/Piyush K. Jain*  Justin H. Lo,   Santosh Rananaware,    Marco Downing,   Apekshya Panda,   Michelle Tai,  Srivatsan Raghavan,  Heather E. Fleming  and  Sangeeta N. Bhatia* [*Co-corresponding Authors: Jain and Bhatia]
Date: October 29, 2019
 
 

News coverage: PI’s GRADUATE/POSTDOCTORAL WORK

 

HIGHLIGHTS ON THE ULTIMATE REAGENT

Title: Front Cover: The ULTIMATE Reagent: A Universal Photocleavable and Clickable Reagent for the Regiospecific and Reversible End Labeling of Any Nucleic Acid
Source/Author: ChemBioChem/
Date: Dec, 2018
Source/Author: Ruben Ragg
Date: May 20, 2018

Source/Author: Scott Silverman

Date: Mar 21, 2018

 
 

NEWS COVERAGE ON CRISPR-PLUS

 
Source/Author: Jay London
Date: Dec 2, 2016
Source/Author: Angewandte Chemie International Edition/Chemistry Views
Date: October 11, 2016
 
Source/Author:  WuXi PharmaTech/Sino News
Date: September 13, 2016
Source/Author: Rebekah Barnett/ TED Blog             
Date: September 6, 2016
 
Source/Author: Bryant Furlow/ Cancer Network 
Date: September 5, 2016
 
Source/Author: Sarah Kearns/ Medium 
Date: September 3, 2016 
Source/Author:  Jasmine Solana (Author) & Patrick Caughill (Editor)/Futurism
Date: August 29, 2016
 
Source/Author:  Rajamanickam Antonimuthu/YouTube
Date: August 27, 2016
 
Source/Author:  Himanshu Goenka, International Business Times
Date: August 25, 2016 
 
Source/Author: Erika Reinfeld/Koch Institute 
Date: August 25, 2016
 
​MIT News on CRISPR-PLUS highlighted on other websites

Original article: MIT News

Published: By over 2000+ news websites

Source/Author: Anne Trafton/MIT

Date: August 25, 2016

 

 
 

HIGHLIGHTS ON PHOTOACTIVATED INSULIN POLYMER

 

Source/Author: Macromolecular Bioscience
Date: Aug 5, 2016
 
 

NEWS COVERAGE ON INSULIN PHOTOACTIVATABLE DEPOT

Source/Author: Melania Tesio/ChemistryViews
Date: February 11, 2013
 
Source/Author: The Associated Press
Date: January 2, 2013
 
Source/Author: The Associated Press
Date: December 18, 2012
 
Source/Author: Stacy Downs
Date: July13, 2015
 
 
Source/Author: The Associated Press/The Washington Times
Date: August 13, 2015
 
Source/Author: Alex Smith/KCUR 89.3
Date: April 15, 2016
Source/Author: Terra Hall/ KSHB 41
Date: April 21, 2016