March 2025
Congratulations to Harish for his paper in Molecular Systems Biology!
February 2025
Congratulations to Joe for his paper in Annual Review of Chemical Engineering!
Congratulations to Pedram and Jen for their paper in Bioengineering and Translational Medicine!
January 2025
Registration is now open for the Cellular Bioprocess Technology short course, to be held August 12-15, 2025 at the University of Minnesota.
November 2024
Welcome to new group members Lina Abu-Absi and Aashrita Boddu!
October 2024
Congratulations to Pranati for her paper in Molecular Pharmaceutics!
Congratulations to Harish for his paper in npj Systems Biology and Applications!
September 2024
Paulina successfully defended her doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Eberts!
August 2024
Kristen successfully defended her doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Lemke!
Congratulations to Kristen for her paper in Scientific Reports!
June 2024
Victoria successfully defended her doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Jones!
November 2023
Welcome to new group members Anushka Garg Mandal, Emily Rozich, and Jared Martini!
August 2023
Janani, Pedram and Pranati presented their work at the ACS Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
June 2023
Harish successfully defended his doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Venkatachalapathy!
February 2023
Congratulations to Abby and Joe for their paper in International Journal of Pharmaceutics!
October 2022
Harish's research on how cellular noise impacts breast cancer dormancy was highlighted by the College of Science and Engineering!
Joe and Harish presented their work at the BMES Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX.
Paulina presented her work at the Society for Biological Engineering's International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering in Boston, MA.
Congratulations to Paulina for winning a poster award at the Institute for Engineering in Medicine Annual Conference!
July 2022
Congratulations to Qiuge for her paper in Nature Communications! This work was also highlighted by the College of Science and Engineering.
June 2022
Pranati, Paulina, and Samira presented at the Barriers of the CNS Gordon Research Conference in New London, NH.
May 2022
Congratulations to Andrew for passing his qualifying exam!
Qiuge successfully defended her doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Zhang!
April 2022
Qiuge's research on bacterial therapeutics was highlighted by the Office of Technology Commercialization!
November 2021
Welcome to new group members Zi-Ting Feng and Isadora Kucera!
October 2021
Congratulations to Pedram for his paper in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering!
Congratulations to Kristen for receiving an Outstanding TA Award!
June 2021
Pranati has been selected for the Stem Cell Institute Predoctoral Infuse Award Program. Congratulations, Pranati!
May 2021
Congratulations to Ray for his paper in Advanced Healthcare Materials!
Samira has received the University of Minnesota McKnight Presidential Fellow Award!
April 2021
Tiffany successfully defended her doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Lam!
March 2021
Congratulations to Andrew for being awarded a Junior Investigator Pilot Grant from the University of Minnesota Physical Sciences in Oncology Center to study dormancy regulation by the extracellular matrix.
January 2021
Congratulations to Harish for his paper in Biophysical Journal!
Samira received the George W. Taylor Career Development Award from the UMN College of Science and Engineering!
Hannah successfully defended her doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Seo!
December 2020
Paulina was awarded a Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research. Congratulations, Paulina!
Jen, Jenny, and Pedram successfully defended their doctoral theses. Congratulations, Dr. Caronia, Dr. One, and Dr. Motallebnejad!
November 2020
Welcome to new group members Andrew Frederickson and Becca Kim!
September 2020
Tiffany has been awarded an Engineering in Medicine Doctoral Fellowship from IEM. Congratulations, Tiffany!
Congratulations to Pedram for his paper in Fluids and Barriers of the CNS!
August 2020
Congratulations to Tiffany for her paper in AIChE Journal!
July 2020
Congratulations to Tiffany for her paper in Biotechnology and Bioengineering!
June 2020
Congratulations to Hannah and Pedram for their paper in Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering!
May 2020
Congratulations to Joe for passing his qualifying exam!
April 2020
Janani has been selected as a trainee in the Biotechnology Training Program. Congratulations, Janani!
Congratulations to Sandhya Appiah for receiving an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program award!
March 2020
Ray successfully defended his doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Lee!
January 2020
Congratulations to Tiffany and Joe for being awarded a Junior Investigator Pilot Grant from the University of Minnesota Physical Sciences in Oncology Center to study the effect of energy-based tumor ablation on dendritic cell function.
Joe has been selected as a trainee in the Biotechnology Training Program. Congratulations, Joe!
Congratulations to lab alum Frankie for his paper in Annals of Biomedical Engineering!
November 2019
Congratulations to Pedram for his paper in Biomicrofluidics!
Congratulations to Tiffany for receiving a Women in Chemical Engineering (WIC) Travel Award to present her work at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL!
Welcome to new group members Pranati Mondkar, Victoria Jones, and Janani Narayan!
September 2019
Congratulations to Harish for receiving a poster award at the IEM Annual Conference! Tiffany and Joe also presented their work at the meeting.
June 2019
Congratulations to Hannah for receiving a poster award at the IPRIME Annual Meeting!
May 2019
Congratulations to Ray for being awarded a 2019-2020 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship!
April 2019
Congratulations to Jenny for her paper in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, which was selected as an Editor's Choice article!
March 2019
Congratulations to Ray for his paper in ACS Applied Bio Materials!
December 2018
Samira received the NSF CAREER Award!
The lab was awarded a pilot project from the University of Minnesota Physical Sciences in Oncology Center to study the use of nanomaterials for inhibiting ovarian cancer metastasis. This is a collaborative effort with Dr. Melissa Geller (Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women's Health).
November 2018
Congratulations to Abby Silbaugh for receiving an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program award!
Welcome to new group member Joe Vallin!
October 2018
Pedram presented his work at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA.
Jenny, Tiffany and Ray presented their work at the BMES Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
September 2018
Congratulations to Tiffany, Jen, and Jenny for receiving poster awards at the Institute for Engineering in Medicine Annual Conference!
August 2018
Congratulations to Ray for his paper in Journal of Biological Engineering!
Frankie successfully defended his doctoral thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Pelaez!
July 2018
Our collaborative work with Prof. Casim Sarkar on oral delivery of protein therapeutics was awarded a new R01 grant from the NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
June 2018
Tiffany has been selected as a trainee in the Biotechnology Training Program. Congratulations, Tiffany!
April 2018
Kristen has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations, Kristen!
March 2018
Congratulations to Hannah for her paper in Fluids and Bariers of the CNS!
February 2018
Congratulations to Frankie for his paper in Biomaterials!
November 2017
The lab was awarded a Transformational Award from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust to integrate focal therapy and immunotherapy with scaffolds that capture metastatic cells in vivo. This is a collaborative effort with Dr. John Bischof (Mechanical Engineering) and Dr. Yoji Shimizu (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology).
Congratulations to Frankie and Jenny for receiving poster awards at the Institute for Engineering in Medicine Annual Conference!
Welcome to new group members Paulina Eberts, Kristen Lemke, and Qiuge Zhang!
October 2017
Frankie, Hannah and Ray presented their work at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
August 2017
Congratulations to Jenny for passing her qualifying exam!
Hannah, Harish, Jenny, Ray, and Tiffany participated in MuckFest MS Run to support Multiple Sclerosis research.
June 2017
Congratulations to Jen and Hannah for receiving poster awards at the Stem Cell Institute ENG-SCI Symposium!
The lab was awarded an American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant to develop biomaterials to predict clinical outcome in ovarian cancer.
May 2017
Congratulations to Anna Xue for receiving an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program award!
Congratulations to Pedram and Hannah for passing their qualifying exams!
April 2017
Congratulations to Ray for passing his qualifying exam!
March 2017
Congratulations to Tiffany for being awarded an honorable mention in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program!
November 2016
Frankie presented his work at the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
Welcome to new group members Tiffany Lam and Harish Venkatachalapathy!
October 2016
Heather presented her work at the BMES Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
July 2016
Jenny Caronia has been selected as a trainee in the Biotechnology Training Program. Congratulations, Jenny!
March 2016
Hannah Seo has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations, Hannah!
December 2015
Welcome to new group members Jenny Caronia, Ray Lee, Meryl Lewis, Pedram Motallebnejad, and Hannah Seo!
November 2015
The lab was awarded a Catalyst Award from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust to integrate focal therapy and immunotherapy with scaffolds that capture metastatic cells in vivo. This is a collaborative effort with Dr. John Bischof (Mechanical Engineering) and Dr. Yoji Shimizu (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology).
October 2015
Our recent publication on biomaterial scaffolds for breast cancer metastasis treatment and detection was highlighted by Smithsonian Magazine and the NIH Director's Blog.
July 2015
Postdoctoral fellow Amritava Das joins the group. Welcome, Tava!
June 2015
Jennifer One has been selected as a trainee in the Biotechnology Training Program. Congratulations, Jen!
Chemical Engineering graduate student Francisco Pelaez joins the group. Welcome, Frankie!
April 2015
Congratulations to Heather Fong and Mya Peterson for receiving Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program awards!
November 2014
Biomedical Engineering graduate student Jennifer One joins the group. Welcome, Jen!