Congratulations to Han for the successful thesis defense in Aug. 29, 2025. He will stay in our group for a few months as a postdoctoral fellow.

Supported by the Hokkaido-UMass collaborative seed fund, we hosted Prof. Toshiro Ohashi and Assistant Professor Ryota Toyohara’s visit to UMass on May 8th and 9th. Thanks for the insightful conversations and seminar talks, and look forward to future collaborations.

Together with Dr. Yoshiho Ikeuchi (The University of Tokyo), Dr. Feng Guo (IU), Dr. Insoo Hyun (Museum of Science/Harvard Medical School), Dr. Guo-li Ming (UPenn), and Dr. Jianping Fu (UMich), we thoroughly reviewed current limitations of neural organoids and how bioengineering innovation can improve neural organoid research [link for download]. A great pleasure working with everyone! 5/1/2025.

Congratulations, Dr. Pavon! We are excited about Narciso’s achievements and finding his interests in bioinformatics and neurological disorders. Best wishes for your next role at Eli Lilly!

The lab went bowling at PiNZ Bowl to celebrate the new semester and some new members joining the lab! .

Our lab received a R35 MIRA Award from NIGMS. This grant will support our research in the mechanobiology of gap closure process. See the news article here.

Beatriz: Advanced to PhD Candidacy; Finalist for the HHMI Gilliam Fellowship

Narciso: Paper on patterned ganglionic eminences organoids published by Cell Report Methods. Internship with Eli Lilly in fall 2024

Bella: MIE Research Star Award.

Congratulations to everyone!

We have received a NSF grant, in collaboration with Dr. Jun Yao, and are part of a NIH Trailblazer Award to Dr. Guangyu Xu. Those grant will support our research in exploring novel bioelectrical interfaces with patterned brain organoids. Look forward to the collaborations.

Congratulations to Lauren for winning this prestigious award. She is also featured on the CoE website and UMass Website.

Jamar and Feiyu successfully defended their Ph.D. theses in Dec. 2022. Congratulations on their achievements! Jamar will start his new position in Colossal Biosciences to bring back Mammoths and Feiyu will join JHU BME as a postdoctoral scholar. Best wishes for their future endeavors.