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!
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New members
Narciso Pavon joined the lab in Jan 2020 (co-advised with Dr. ChangHui Pak), and Han Jiang joined the lab in Sept 2020. Welcome!
New publications
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.
Neuroengineering Seed Grants
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]
Farewell dinner for Ningwei
Subi presented in the CoE REU poster session
EJ won the second place in the Innovation Challenge
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.
Grant support
Dr. Sun received the NSF CAREER Award to support our study on the mechanobiology of planar cell polarity. [UMass News]
Three papers published recently
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.
UMass Acorn Award
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.