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December 2025 - Congratulations to Marcello DeLuca for being featured in UNC’s Postdoc Spotlight! This new series highlights both the research taking place at UNC and the experiences of the postdocs behind the work.

June 2025 - Congratulations to Kelvin Idanwekhai for winning 1st Place in the AFFINITY Junior Researcher Oral Presentation competition for his work “Data-Efficient and Adaptive Machine Learning Framework for Accelerated AAV Downstream Processing”! Great work, Kelvin!

June 2025 - James Wellnitz successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations on this major achievement!

May 2025 - Congratulations to Ricardo Tieghi for presenting DeTox at The 2025 Symposium Session “Qualifying NAMs for Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity: Advancements and Pitfalls”! His work was featured in the 2025 Annual Meeting Report: NAMs Hit the Bullseye in DART Assessments.

April 2025 - Ricardo Tieghi featured in NIEHS Environmental Factor interview “From Avid Reader to Toxicity Tool Developer”, congratulations!

March 2025 - Ricardo Tieghi received the SOT Undergraduate Research Award and presented his research at the SOT Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Well done, Ricardo!

January 2025 - The paper “A Novel Machine Learning Model and a Web Portal for Predicting the Human Skin Sensitization Effects of Chemical Agents” was featured as an NIEHS Intramural Paper of the Month. Congratulations to first author Ricardo Tieghi and co-authors, including Holli-Joi Martin, and James Wellnitz!

November 2024 - The paper “A Novel Machine Learning Model and a Web Portal for Predicting the Human Skin Sensitization Effects of Chemical Agents” was selected as an MDPI Toxics Editor’s Choice Article. Congratulations to first author Ricardo Tieghi and co-authors, including Holli-Joi Martin, and James Wellnitz!

November 2024 - Ricardo Tieghi named Best Presenter at the NIEHS Three-Minute Communication Challenge. Great work!

November 2024 - Congratulations to Ricardo Tieghi for winning first place in the undergraduate poster category at the NCSOT Annual Meeting!

January 2024 - Congratulations to Ricardo Tieghi and the DevTox team for winning the NIH Common Fund Complement-ARIE Challenge Prize!