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CNG postdoc scores Best Postdoctoral Presentation Award

June 2026

Congratulations to CNG postdoc Dr Jingqu Chen on winning the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 16th International Nanomedicine Conference held on 22–24 June 2026 in Sydney. Jingqu’s talk was entitled Bioactive Metal–Organic Nanoparticles: A Versatile Platform for Therapeutic Delivery.

CNG article in Advanced Materials highlighted on inside front cover

January 2026

A collaborative article has been highlighted on the inside front cover of Advanced Materials. This article entitled “Polyphenol-Mediated Engineering of Lipid Nanoparticles with Crystalline Mesophases” presents a one-step assembly strategy for engineering a new class of nonlamellar lipid nanoparticles. Through simply varying the assembly building blocks, the polyphenol-mediated strategy enables the modulation of the nonlamellar structures, resulting in tuneable sizes (90‒420 nm), lattice parameters (106‒151Å), and different nanostructures (multilamellar and hexagonal). Such flexibility allows the design delivery systems for different classes of therapeutic molecules, thereby offering opportunities to tailor such materials to different delivery needs.

This collaborative study was conducted by CNG,  the Nanomedicine and Gene Therapeutics Laboratory (headed by Dr. Yi (David) Ju) at the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute and La Trobe University, and colleagues from RMIT University.