publications

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2026

  1. PNAS
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    mRNA lipid nanoparticle cancer vaccine platform delivering multiple STING activators for enhanced antitumor activity
    Ye Zeng, Junchao Xu, Jinjin Wang, Lulu Xue, Jiageng Liu, Hannah C. Geisler, Xu Ma, Jilian R. Melamed, Qiangqiang Shi, Marshall S. Padilla, Zhangyi Luo, Jingcheng Zhu, Ajay S. Thatte, Christian G. Figueroa-Espada, Melgious Jin Yan Ang, Amanda M. Murray, Hannah M. Yamagata, Dongyoon Kim, Ann E. Metzloff, Drew Weissman, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2026
  2. Nat. Protoc.
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    Preparation of targeted lipid nanoparticles for precision nucleic acid delivery
    Hannah C. Geisler, Elisa Battistini, Ajay S. Thatte, Marshall S. Padilla, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Nature Protocols, 2026
    In press
  3. JACS
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    Aromatic mRNA lipid nanoparticle (aroLNP) platform confers lymph node tropism and vaccine protection with reduced liver delivery
    Hannah M. Yamagata, Marshall S. Padilla, Alex G. Hamilton, Kelsey L. Swingle, Adele S. Ricciardi, Ajay S. Thatte, Ryann A. Joseph, Ori Chalom, Hannah C. Geisler, Jacqueline J. Li, Akash Agrawal, Sherry Du, Dongyoon Kim, Rachel Whitaker, Christian G. Figueroa-Espada, Emily L. Han, Amanda M. Murray, Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh, Drew Weissman, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2026
  4. ACS Nano
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    Automated and parallelized microfluidic generation of large and precisely-defined lipid nanoparticle libraries
    Andrew R. Hanna, Sarah J. Shepherd, Gregory A. Datto, Ian Navarro, Adele S. Ricciardi, Marshall S. Padilla, Neha Srikumar, Sheng Zhang, Hannah M. Yamagata, Nina Y. Meng, Joshua R. Buser, Michael J. Mitchell, and David Issadore
    ACS Nano, 2026

2025

  1. Nat. Commun.
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    Branched endosomal disruptor (BEND) lipids mediate delivery of mRNA and CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complex for hepatic gene editing and T cell engineering
    Marshall S. Padilla, Kaitlin Mrksich, Yiming Wang, Rebecca M. Haley, Jacqueline J. Li, Emily L. Han, Rakan El-Mayta, Emily H. Kim, Sofia Dias, Ningqiang Gong, Sridatta V. Teerdhala, Xuexiang Han, Vivek Chowdhary, Lulu Xue, Zain Siddiqui, Hannah M. Yamagata, Dongyoon Kim, Il-Chul Yoon, James M. Wilson, Ravi Radhakrishnan, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Nature Communications, 2025
  2. Nat. Biotechnol.
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    Elucidating lipid nanoparticle properties and structure through biophysical analyses
    Marshall S. Padilla, Sarah J. Shepherd, Andrew R. Hanna, Martin Kurnik, Xujun Zhang, Michelle Chen, James Byrnes, Ryann A. Joseph, Hannah M. Yamagata, Adele S. Ricciardi, Kaitlin Mrksich, David Issadore, Kushol Gupta, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Nature Biotechnology, 2025
    In press
  3. Nat. Biotechnol.
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    Solution biophysics reveals the polydisperse structure of RNA lipid nanoparticles
    Marshall S. Padilla, Kushol Gupta, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Nature Biotechnology, 2025
    In press
  4. Nano Lett.
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    Cas9 protein enhances lipid nanoparticle-mediated CFTR repair compared to mRNA
    Ryann A. Joseph, Rebecca M. Haley, Marshall S. Padilla, Adele S. Ricciardi, Hannah M. Yamagata, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Nano Letters, 2025
  5. ACS Nano
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    Lipid nanoparticles for in vivo lung delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoproteins allow gene editing of clinical targets
    Rebecca M. Haley, Marshall S. Padilla, Rakan D. El-Mayta, Ryann A. Joseph, Jamie A. Weber, Christian G. Figueroa-Espada, Alvin J. Mukalel, Adele S. Ricciardi, Rohan Palanki, Hannah C. Geisler, Margaret T. Jester, Beverly L. Davidson, and Michael J. Mitchell
    ACS Nano, 2025

2024

  1. Eur. J. Immunol.
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    Lipid nanoparticle-mediated RNA delivery for immune cell modulation
    Emily H.* Kim, Sridatta V.* Teerdhala, Marshall S.* Padilla, Ryann A. Joseph, Jacqueline J. Li, Rebecca M. Haley, and Michael J. Mitchell
    European Journal of Immunology, 2024
  2. Adv. Drug Deliv. Rev.
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    Breaking the final barrier: evolution of cationic and ionizable lipid structure in lipid nanoparticles to escape the endosome
    Kaitlin* Mrksich, Marshall S.* Padilla, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2024
  3. J. Mol. Liq.
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    Probing ionic liquid toxicity through biophysical and computational methods
    Marshall S. Padilla and Sandro Mecozzi
    Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2024
  4. Nano Lett.
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    Peptide-functionalized lipid nanoparticles for targeted systemic mRNA delivery to the brain
    Emily L. Han, Sophia Tang, Dongyoon Kim, Amanda M. Murray, Kelsey L. Swingle, Alex G. Hamilton, Kaitlin Mrksich, Marshall S. Padilla, Rohan Palanki, Jacqueline J. Li, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Nano Letters, 2024
  5. Nat. Chem.
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    Fast and facile synthesis of amidine-incorporated degradable lipids for versatile mRNA delivery in vivo
    Xuexiang Han, Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh, Ningqiang Gong, Lulu Xue, Majed Ghattas, Giridhar Bojja, Junchao Xu, Gan Zhao, Claude C. Warzecha, Marshall S. Padilla, Rakan El-Mayta, Garima Dwivedi, Yiming Xu, Andrew E. Vaughan, James M. Wilson, Drew Weissman, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Nature Chemistry, 2024
  6. Nano Lett.
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    Predictive high-throughput platform for dual screening of mRNA lipid nanoparticle blood-brain barrier transfection and crossing
    Emily L. Han, Marshall S. Padilla, Rohan Palanki, Dongyoon Kim, Kaitlin Mrksich, Jacqueline J. Li, Sophia Tang, Il-Chul Yoon, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Nano Letters, 2024
  7. Adv. Mater.
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    Antigen presenting cell mimetic lipid nanoparticles for rapid mRNA CAR T cell cancer immunotherapy
    Ann E. Metzloff, Marshall S. Padilla, Ningqiang Gong, Margaret M. Billingsley, Xuexiang Han, Maria Merolle, Dan Mai, Christian G. Figueroa-Espada, Ajay S. Thatte, Rebecca M. Haley, Alvin J. Mukalel, Alex G. Hamilton, Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh, Drew Weissman, Neil C. Sheppard, Carl H. June, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Advanced Materials, 2024
  8. J. Biomed. Mater. Res. A
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    Influence of ionizable lipid tail length on lipid nanoparticle delivery of mRNA of varying length
    Kaitlin Mrksich, Marshall S. Padilla, Ryann A. Joseph, Emily L. Han, Dongyoon Kim, Rohan Palanki, Junchao Xu, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 2024
  9. J. Control. Release
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    EGFR-targeted ionizable lipid nanoparticles enhance in vivo mRNA delivery to the placenta
    Hannah C. Geisler, Aditya A. Ghalsasi, Hannah C. Safford, Kelsey L. Swingle, Ajay S. Thatte, Alvin J. Mukalel, Ningqiang Gong, Alex G. Hamilton, Emily L. Han, Benjamin E. Nachod, Marshall S. Padilla, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Journal of Controlled Release, 2024
  10. Adv. Funct. Mater.
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    Oxidized mRNA lipid nanoparticles for in situ chimeric antigen receptor monocyte engineering
    Alvin J. Mukalel, Alex G. Hamilton, Margaret M. Billingsley, Jacqueline Li, Ajay S. Thatte, Xuexiang Han, Hannah C. Safford, Marshall S. Padilla, Tyler Papp, Hamideh Parhiz, Drew Weissman, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Advanced Functional Materials, 2024

2023

  1. J. Pharm. Sci.
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    MCT nanoemulsions for the efficient delivery of siRNA
    Marshall S. Padilla, Montri Tangsangasaksri, Chia-Chih Chang, and Sandro Mecozzi
    Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2023
  2. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces
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    Lipid nanoparticle delivery of small proteins for potent in vivo RAS inhibition
    Rebecca M. Haley, Alexander Chan, Margaret M. Billingsley, Ningqiang Gong, Marshall S. Padilla, Emily H. Kim, Hejia Wang, Dongni Yin, Kirk J. Wangensteen, Andrew Tsourkas, and Michael J. Mitchell
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023
  3. Int. J. Nanomedicine
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    Delivery of plasmid DNA by ionizable lipid nanoparticles to induce CAR expression in T cells
    Pedro H. D. M. Prazeres, Heloisa Ferreira, Pedro A. C. Costa, Walison Silva, Marco T. Alves, Marshall Padilla, Ajay Thatte, Anderson K. Santos, Anderson O. Lobo, Adriano Sabino, Helen L. Del Puerto, Michael J. Mitchell, and Pedro P. G. Guimaraes
    International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2023
  4. PNAS
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    Throughput-scalable manufacturing of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA lipid nanoparticle vaccines
    Sarah J. Shepherd, Xuexiang Han, Alvin J. Mukalel, Rakan El-Mayta, Ajay S. Thatte, Jingya Wu, Marshall S. Padilla, Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh, Neha Srikumar, Daeyeon Lee, Drew Weissman, David Issadore, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023
  5. JACS
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    Ionizable lipid nanoparticles for in vivo mRNA delivery to the placenta during pregnancy
    Kelsey L. Swingle, Hannah C. Safford, Hannah C. Geisler, Alex G. Hamilton, Ajay S. Thatte, Margaret M. Billingsley, Ryann A. Joseph, Kaitlin Mrksich, Marshall S. Padilla, Aditya A. Ghalsasi, Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh, Drew Weissman, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023
  6. Lab Chip
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    Nanoparticle protein corona: from structure and function to therapeutic targeting
    Ghazal Bashiri, Marshall S. Padilla, Kelsey L. Swingle, Sarah J. Shepherd, Michael J. Mitchell, and Karen Wang
    Lab on a Chip, 2023
  7. JoVE
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    Testing the in vitro and in vivo efficiency of mRNA-lipid nanoparticles formulated by microfluidic mixing
    Rakan El-Mayta, Marshall S. Padilla, Margaret M. Billingsley, Xuexiang Han, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2023

2022

  1. JACS
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    Rational design of bisphosphonate lipid-like materials for mRNA delivery to the bone microenvironment
    Lulu Xue, Ningqiang Gong, Sarah J. Shepherd, Xinhong Xiong, Xinyu Liao, Xuexiang Han, Gan Zhao, Chunhao Song, Hanwen Zhang, Marshall S. Padilla, Jianxin Qin, Yi Shi, Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh, Darrin J. Pochan, Karen Wang, Fei Long, Drew Weissman, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022
  2. J. Biomed. Mater. Res. A
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    Rational design of anti-inflammatory lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery
    Hanwen Zhang, Xuexiang Han, Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh, Sarah J. Shepherd, Marshall S. Padilla, Lulu Xue, Kamila Butowska, Drew Weissman, and Michael J. Mitchell
    Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 2022

2021

  1. Green Chem.
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    Expanding the structural diversity of hydrophobic ionic liquids: physicochemical properties and toxicity of Gemini ionic liquids
    Marshall S. Padilla, Colin Bertz, Nicole Berdusco, and Sandro Mecozzi
    Green Chemistry, 2021

2018

  1. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett.
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    Investigation of copper-free alkyne/azide 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions using microwave irradiation
    Lindsay E. Chatkewitz, John F. Halonski, Marshall S. Padilla, and Douglas D. Young
    Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2018

2016

  1. Tetrahedron Lett.
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    Synthesis and incorporation of a caged tyrosine amino acid possessing a bioorthogonal handle
    Marshall S. Padilla, Connor A. Farley, Lindsay E. Chatkewitz, and Douglas D. Young
    Tetrahedron Letters, 2016

2015

  1. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett.
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    Photosensitive GFP mutants containing an azobenzene unnatural amino acid
    Marshall S. Padilla and Douglas D. Young
    Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2015

2014

  1. Org. Biomol. Chem.
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    Preparation of asymmetrical polyynes by a solid-supported Glaser-Hay reaction
    Jason S. Lampkowski, Caitlin E. Durham, Marshall S. Padilla, and Douglas D. Young
    Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2014