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Payton T. Stone

B.S. Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL

NSF Graduate Research Fellow

payton.t.stone@vanderbilt.edu
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Payton is originally from St. Louis, MO. He completed his undergraduate degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Alabama in 2020, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with University Honors. During his undergraduate education, he spent a summer working as an NSF-REU student under Dr. Shreyas Rao at the University of Alabama. He continued to work under Dr. Rao investigating biomaterials, specifically fabricating and characterizing hyaluronic acid hydrogels to mimic the 3D tumor microenvironment. Currently, Payton is a 5th year NSF-GRFP fellow pursuing a PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. In the Wilson Lab, Payton’s research is focused on using polymeric nanoparticles to intracellularly deliver innate immune agonists for enhancing anticancer immune responses. Outside of lab, Payton enjoys traveling, cooking, attending concerts, and binge-watching new TV series.