October 30, 2025 Congratulations to Amanda on her exit seminar! We can’t wait to see all the amazing things she’ll accomplish in the next stage of her scientific career.

September 1, 2025 That lab is excited to share that his been awarded a 3-year grant from Agilent for the 2025 Agilent Research Catalyst (ARC) Award for Advancing Analytical Characterization of Peptide and Protein Therapeutics for Incretin and Related Pathway Targets. We are grateful for this honor and excited to launch this project!

August 31, 2025 Check out or newest research article in RSC Advances, led by PhD alum Vanessa and finished by postdoc alum Rebeca, where we apply our IMAC workflow (by Sam J.) and copper probe (from JJ) to rice bran peptides, showing the importance of sequence context and multi-tiered analysis!

July 5, 2025 Estely has successfully submitted her thesis and has received her Ph.D.! Congratulations and we look forward to your next steps!

Jun 18, 2025 Alissa has passed her Prelim Exam! Onward and upward to the next steps! Congrats!

Jun 17, 2025 Congratulations to Estely on completing her exit seminar! We’re excited to see where her scientific journey takes her next.

Jun 15, 2025 Excited for some celebrations from the Departmental Awards! Cheers to Estely and Amanda C. for being honored with the Dissertation Awards, Jacob P. for the Leadership award, and Amanda L. for the outstanding performance award!!

May 20, 2025 Congrats to the newest Ph.D. candidate of the lab, Nora Spuler!

Apr 4, 2025 Congratulations to Jacob for finishing the third-year seminar!

Feb 28, 2025 Congratulations to Sam for completing the third-year seminar!

Jan 01, 2025 A warm welcome to Jamie Leckrone and Allan Sanchez, the newest members of the Heffern lab!

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