Dr. Moore is now a standing Member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Forum on Regenerative Medicine!
Congrats to Katriel for winning FIRST PLACE at their poster presentation for UMD’s LSAMP program!
Congrats to Rohey for the MPower Fellowship!
Dr. Moore heads to Society for Biomaterials to spearhead Women’s Health in Biomaterials! She’s co-leading a workshop with Dr. Shreya Raghavan!
March 2025Ally presented updates on her uterine fibroid work at SRI!
Dr. Moore shares updates on the Moore Lab research and why she created her non-profit as an invited speaker at the University of Oregon, Knight 2025 Entrepreneurship Speaker!
Dr. Moore shares updates on Moore Lab work at University of Maryland Veterinary Science.
Congrats to Ally and Dr. Moore for being awarded the Faculty-Student Research Award (FSRA) from UMD’s Graduate School for their work on uterine fibroids!
Congrats to Ally for winning the BIOE Instructional Impact Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants for Fall 2024!
Oct 2024Dr. Moore and Allison Moses are featured in UMD’s Clark School Magazine, Engineering At Maryland!
Oct 2024Dr. Moore is awarded a 2024 Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering!
August 2024Dr. Moore co-leads the NSF ElevateHER conference with Dr. Shreya Raghavan focused on biomedical engineering applications in women’s health!
June 2024Alison M Veintimilla, Allison Kelli Moses, and Lara Larson successfully passed their research aptitude exams in UMD BIOE.
April 2024Dr. Moore is a 2024 TED fellow!
Feb 2024Congrats to Ally on being awarded the MPower Graduate Fellowship for 2024!
Feb 2024Congrats to Dr. Moore for being elected Co-Vice Chair and Co-Chair for 2026 and 2028 GRC ImmunoEngineering!
The Moore Lab attended BMES in Baltimore! We had a blast sharing and attending presentations!
April 2024Dr. Moore is interviewed by the NCI on Equitable design in tissue engineering!
Spring 2024Dr. Moore teaches Financial Literacy to the UMD BRIDGE Program!
Feb 2024Dr. Moore is an invited speaker at GRC Immunoengineering 2024 in Italy!
Jan 2024Dr. Moore is an invited speaker at CMBE 2024 in San Juan, Puerto Rico!
Aakanksha's NSF-funded paper investigating the role of IKVAV on macrophage function is out in Matrix Biology Plus!
Feb 2024How does metformin effect macrophage function? Check out Justin's latest paper in Tissue Engineering where we quantify metformin effect on macrophages!
Feb 2024How does glycosylation of FC receptors dictate function? Check out our paper with Dr. Kevin Chandler (FIU) where we try to investigate glycosylation differences!
The Moore Lab has a blast fundraising for the annual Lupus Walk! We had a bake and plant sale!
May 2024Lara, Alison, and Nana attend the LFA’s National Lupus Advocacy Summit! They turned Capitol Hill purple advocating for lupus research.
Spring 2024Lara is now on the Lupus Research Foundation’s DC Outreach Committee! She’s so excited to get more involved in Lupus Outreach!
Fall 2023-Spring 2024Dr. Moore is helping UMD BIOE help execute on our MARC T34! She’s leading financial literacy seminars for students in the MARC program.
Our CMBE Innovator paper is out! What role do laminin-derived peptides play in macrophage function?
Aug 2024Our review on the physical microenvironment influence effecting macrophage function?
May 2024Working with BME UNITE, Dr. Moore published an article on creating stronger departments in Bioengineering!
NSF Award for EFRI BEGIN OI: Spatiotemporal Learning in 3D Neuronal Organoids. This work is led by Dr. Pamela Asbhire @ UMD.
Feb 2024Congrats to Ally on being awarded the MPower Graduate Fellowship for 2024!
Congrats to Aakanksha for winning first place 1st place for her poster in the 2023 UMD Postdoc Research Symposium!
July 2023Congrats to DOCTOR Aakanksha Jha who successfully defended her PhD from UF BME!
April 2023Congrats to Michele and Justin for Honorable Mention STAR Awards at Society for Biomaterials Conference!
March 2023Dr. Moore was awarded the Early Career EDGE in Tech Athena Awards!
January 2023Dr. Moore has been named an Emerging Scholar, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education’s!
Dr. Moore at the Cardiovascular Healthcare Disparities: Physiological Gaps in Knowledge for the American Physiological Society Physiology Summit!
April 2023Holly presents updates on her work at UF's CTSI Research Day!
April 2023Alison, Holly, Justin, and Michele presented their work at the Society for Biomaterials Conference in San Diego, CA!
March 2023Holly and Justin presented their work at the Department of Rheumatology's grand rounds!
March 2023Aakanksha, Holly, Alison, Michele, and Michael on their presentations at UF SFB Biomaterials Day!
NSF CAREER Award!! Congrats to Dr. Moore and the entire lab!
March 2023Dr. Moore's 3M Non-Tenure Faculty Award is renewed by 3M!
Our paper introduces our "Preclinical in vitro model of monocyte influence on microvessel structure in systemic lupus erythematosus" is out in Lupus Science and Medicine!
BME UNITE trails forward to provide a 6-Step Roadmap to Diversify Faculty Hiring in STEM! Read the article highlight from UMD here!
July 2023Aakanksha's paper focused on the use of SOCS-1KIR Peptide mimetic to direct macrophage function is out! Congrats Aakanksha!
June 2023Michele's paper entitled "Generation and characterization of two immortalized dermal fibroblast cell lines from the spiny mouse (Acomys)" is OUT in PLOSOne! AMAZING WORK, Michele!
Feb 2023Dr. Moore's postdoctoral contribution to understanding Helminth egg derivatives as pro- regenerative immunotherapies is published in PNAS! Congrats David!
Ally and Lara join the lab! We're so excited to have two more PhD students!
Sept 2023Dr. Moore is interviewed by DoubleShelix Podcast, focusing on "who can afford access to higher education?"
Sept 2023Dr. Nana Owusu-Boaitey joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow! We are so excited to have Nana join the group!
Aug 2023Dr. Moore gives seminar at UIUC for the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology!
With Dr. Nesma Ibrahim, Dr. Moore co-organized a special session at BMES 2023 on alternative careers in BME beyond academia.
Sept 2023Lara leads the lab in supporting Lupus Research by organizing our lab's participation at the 2023 Walk to End Lupus Now in Washington DC!
March 2023Working with Christine Horejs, Editor of Nature Reviews Bioengineering, Dr. Moore helped coordinate a BMES seminar on writing Abstracts! Check it out here!
Jan 2023Aakanksha and Alison volunteers to lead tours for Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers students!
Welcome Miriam! We are so excited to have her 20+ years of clinical sample experience in the lab!
July 2023The Moore Lab celebrates 3 years of EXISTENCE!
Summer 2023Michele and Paulina secured internships at United Therapeutics! We are so excited for their impact!
April 2023The Moore Lab celebrates the end of the semester by painting ceramics at the Reitz Union!
This Summer we welcomed Lara Larson as a UF SURF Student for a 10-week summer research program! More information about the UF SURF program can be found here. Lara is a third-year undergrad in biosystems engineering at the University of Kentucky. Read more here!
Dr. Moore co-lead the PowerHour for the GRC for ImmunoEngineering Conference! With Dr. Ruda, they focused on finances in academia!
Aakanksha volunteers with the NSF Multidisciplinary Research Experiences for Teachers (MRET) program, leading lab tours for local teachers!
As a Keystone Fellow, Dr. Moore spent her birthday at the Keystone Scientific Advisory Board meeting!
Congrats to Alison for receiving the Jonathan Hack Departmental Award!
Dr. Moore becomes the FIRST Black woman to be awarded the BMES Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award!
Congrats to Michele for being awarded a Travel Award for the 3rd international Conference on Tissue Repair, Regeneration, and Fibrosis!
Congrats to Justin who has been awarded training on a T32 Regenerative Medicine Training Grant (532DK074367-04)!
Dr. Moore was awarded the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award! She is the first UF HWCOE faculty to receive this award!
Congrats to Dr. Moore for being awarded the 2021 Constellation Prize for Financial Literacy and Equity!
Dr. Moore shared our work at the GRC for ImmunoEngineering! Ancestry matters in immunology!
Dr. Moore and Aakanksha presented their work at the Society for Biomaterials Conference in Baltimore, MD!
Congrats to Dr. Moore and Aakansha on their oral presentations at the Society for Biomaterials Conference in Baltimore, MD!
Congrats to Talia and Jessica for presenting their work at the UF Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Dr. Moore and Dr. Allen share why ancestry must be considered in our biomedical science endeavors! Hear their perspectives in the UF "From Florida" podcast!
Aakanksha received high praise for her clear and engaging presentation of her work at NC State! This was her first public oral presentation!
Justin published his article in Cells Tissues Organs! Talia and Jessica helped to write this paper!
Holly's article focuses on mouse models of systemic lupus erythematosus to understand cardiovascular disease in lupus.
Dr. Moore publishes a commentary in Science on her debt and her motivation to empower other students.
Erika volunteers at the SACNAS panel titled, "Grant Writing for Graduate Students." You can view the video here!
Holly volunteers to lead tours for Miami Dade transfer students in collaboration with HWCOE engineering extension and outreach programs
Holly volunteers to lead tours for Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers students
Dr. Moore and Aakanksha toured students from the UF Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers in Jan. 2022.
Dr. Moore volunteers at Littlewood Elementary to speak with 5th graders about following their passions and studying biomaterials!
Dr. Moore is interviewed by Forbes about advice for students with student loans! Her work was also featured in the Gainesville Sun!
Congrats to Holly for coming in 2nd place in the BME Art of Research Photo Contest for her entry "Baskets of Roses"!
Congrats to Michael and Jessica who have been selected as University Scholars!
Dr. Moore and Dr. Allen are featured in the From Florida podcast where they shared their perspectives on increasing diversity in biomedical sciences through cell ancestry!
Congrats to Dr. Moore for being selected as a KeyStone Fellow! She will join Scientific Advisory Board meetings for 2022!
Dr. Moore becomes the first UF HWCOE faculty member to receive the 3M Non-Tenure Faculty Award!
The Moore Lab was awarded the NIH NIGMS R35 Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators! This $1.8 million grant will support our efforts in ancestry-centered work in wound healing!
Dr. Moore is awarded the Lupus Research Alliance Career Development Award. This $600,000 work focuses on understanding ancestral contributions to monocyte function in lupus!
The Moore Lab held our first Lab Retreat!! We traveled to Bradenton to reflect on what we’ve accomplished and plan for the future!
Congrats to Aakanksha and Justin for passing their preliminary thesis examinations!
We continued our tradition of our Lab Giving and had a blast celebrating our lab community!
Moore Lab celebrates our 2nd Birthday!
Dr. Moore gets awarded private funding to create a bridge in collaboration between UF-FIU. Click here for more details.
Congratulations to Holly for being awarded the UF-FIU research fellowship. Check out the press release here.
UF Highlights the Moore Lab in a cool video! Check out the video on Twitter or Youtube.
‘Rising Star’ shines: Forbes names UF researcher someone to watch for groundbreaking lupus research
The Moore lab’s first review article titled “Modeled vascular microenvironments: immune-endothelial cell interactions in vitro” was published!
Read Justin Silberman’s first published review article titled “Macrophages in microgravity: the impact of space on immune cells”.
Graduate students at HWLEE formed WEBiO (Wertheim Engineers’ Biotech Organization).
When the students become gurus! Justin, Holly and Aakanksha teach Biomaterials and what the Moore lab does to K-5 Elementary school teachers as part of The University of Florida Multidisciplinary Research Experiences for Teachers (MRET) program.
Dr. Moore was an invited speaker at the National Academies of Engineering, Sciences and Medicine Forum.
Inaugural Black Voices in Research Storytelling Event from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST. The UF CSTI Diversity and Cultural Competence Council (DC3) are providing a platform for black biomedical researchers to amplify their stories and enrich UF’s diverse research community.
Dr. Moore served as a conference chair for AfroBioTech!
The Moore Lab presented at BMES 2021! Dr Moore was an invited speaker.
Congrats to Holly and Aakanksha for receiving Travel grants for BMES 2021!
Justin, Holly and Aakanksha will be presenting their work at the 10th Annual Biomaterials Day research symposium!
UF Highlights the Moore Lab in a cool video! Check out the video on Twitter or Youtube.
Congrats to Justin for being selected as the MSE department representative for the college student council.
Congrats to Aakanksha for receiving the Outstanding Achievement Award for international students!
Congratulations to Justin for being selected for the NextProf Pathfinder program!
Congrats to Talia and Jessica who have been selected as University Scholars!
Moore Lab celebrates its One Year Anniversary!
December 1: Dr. Moore is selected as Forbes 30 Under 30 for 2021 in Health Care.
October 26-28: Dr. Moore was back at AFROBIOTECH! This time as Co-Chair of the Regenerative Engineering Session with Dr. Ed Botchwey (GATECH). She also served on the organizing committee. We had a blast! Prepare to join us next year!
October 14: Dr. Moore was an invited speaker at the BMES 2020. She spoke about the roles of B cells in biomaterial-mediated wound healing in the Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine track.
September 11: The end of the N.M.R.N. SETH Grant Writing workshop! Dr. Moore found this experience so incredibly valuable!
July 6: Dr. Moore moves down to Gainesville and officially starts her position at UF! Go GATORS!
Dr. Moore was awarded the KL2 grant through UF C.T.S.I.! She is the 3rd engineer and first M.S.E. faculty to receive this award!
Read Dr Moore’s chat with Gator Nation News after being named to Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 health care experts to watch in 2021: A “RISING STAR’ SHINES IN FORBES
Dr. Moore and Dr. Elisseeff’s review, titled “The immune system and its contribution to variability in regenerative medicine" was published! Read why it’s critical to consider immunity in all regenerative products!
December 16, 2019: Dr. Moore is a participant in the N.R.M.N. SETH Grant writing workshop funded through the NIH
November 11, 2019: Dr. Moore co-chaired the Regenerative Engineering session at AICHE with Dr. Yusuf Khan (UCHC)
October 27, 2019: Dr. Moore is an invited speaker at the FIRST AfroBiotech Conference in Atlanta, GA!
September 25, 2019: Dr. Moore travels to Bowie State University Department of Natural Sciences to talk with students and give a talk!
September 6, 2019: Dr. Moore travels to The Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland College Park to give a talk!
July 2019: Dr. Moore attended the Gordon Research Conference on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
May 20-21, 2019: Dr. Moore attended the NIH Future Research Leaders Conference where she presented the work of the lab
December 8, 2018: How we can harness macrophages for tissue engineering? Read our latest publication in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering!
November 26, 2018: Dr Moore was invited to give a lecture at JHU BME titled "Utilizing Poly (ethylene glycol)-based Hydrogels to Manipulate Immune Cells in Vessel Development"
July 2018: Dr Moore began her Postdoctoral Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Biomedical Engineering working with Dr Jennifer Elisseeff.
May 2018: Dr Moore accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida starting in July 2020.
Dr. Moore and Dr. Allen are awarded a Space Research Initiative grant to study the interactions of macrophages and endothelial cells in microgravity!
Read about Dr. Moore’s position and the goals of the Moore Lab! Dr Moore was interviewed about her position at UF!