12/15/2020 Jamar’s review paper, in collaboration with Dr. Cui Wei, on what mechanics can offer ART is accepted by Molecular Human Production. Congratulations!

Narciso Pavon joined the lab in Jan 2020 (co-advised with Dr. ChangHui Pak), and Han Jiang joined the lab in Sept 2020. Welcome!

We have published several papers recently. Tianfa’s paper is accepted by Matter; our collaborative work with Dr. Mingxu You is accepted by Chemical Science, and Peiran and Jamar’s work is accepted by ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering. Congratulations to everyone.

Our lab received an IONs Neuroengineering Seed Grants in collaboration with Dr. ChangHui Pak. We thank the The Initiative on Neurosciences (IONs) at UMass for the support. [news]

The lab had a farewell dinner in the House of Teriyaki for Ningwei. Best wishes for her future career at Colgate!

Subi presented her summer research (sponsored by the NSF REU program) in the REU poster session hosted by the College of Engineering. Nice work!

E.J. Chen and his venture “Renovare” won second place in the final of the Innovation Challenge and received $21,000 equity free investment. His company seeks to accelerate the wound healing process by developing “massaging bandages”, leveraging the mechanosensitivity of epithelial cells. Congratulations!

See the CoE news article here.

Dr. Sun received the NSF CAREER Award to support our study on the mechanobiology of planar cell polarity. [UMass News]

Nariman’s work on cancer biomarker sensing has been published in RSC Advances.

Peiran’s work on cancer cell fusion in collaboration with Dr. Shelly Peyton has been published in ACS Biomaterial Sciences and Engineering

Our collaborative work with Dr. Weiqiang Chen at NYU has been published in Small.

Congratulations to all the co-authors.

We recently received a $15,000 UMass Acorn Innovation Fund to support the commercialization of SERS-based immunoassay. Thanks to the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC) for the support.