Jamar recently received a prestigious Hubertus W. V. Willems Scholarship from NAACP. The scholarship recognizes students who “display academic excellence and early signs of leadership and a commitment to social justice”. Congratulations, Jamar!

Our lab will collaborate with Dr. Govind Srimathveeravalli to investigate whether mechanical stimulation or the activation of certain mechanosensitive pathways can facilitate cell regeneration and eventually generate functional bladder tissue. Check the MIE news.

Our newest eLife paper, in collaboration with Dr. Min Wu @ WPI, established that cell alignment in a confined monolayer in mechanical equilibrium states can be regulated by a condensation tendency (prestretch) and a tissue stiffness gradient. Congratulations to all the authors!

Ningwei and Feiyu’s paper on differentiating hPSCs using a chemical gradient generation device is accepted by ACS Biomaterials Sci. & Eng. Congratulations!

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!