Sophia Fang has been named as one the 300 Scholars in the nation in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school senior, based on her independent research on mesenchymal stem cells in our lab. Congratulations!
Sophia has been accepted by MIT in the early action round. Best wishes for her future undergraduate studies.
12/6/2017
Our collaborative work with Prof. Mingxu You has been accepted by JACS. This is an important first work in our effort to address intercellular mechanotransduction.
10/14/2017
Nader presented an oral talk at the BMES Annual Meeting 2017 in Phoenix AZ.
11/1/2017
Nariman’s team won the second place in the UMass Innovation Challenge one minute business plan speech competition. Stay tuned for the next round! Read more.
11/3/2017
Jamar has been selected to receive the 2017-2018 UMass Amherst Rising Researcher student achievement award. He will receive this prestigious award in a reception hosted by the Chancellor in the spring. Congratulations! See MIE News.
9/22/2017
Nariman’s manuscript on pancreatic cancer biomarker detection has just been accepted by Nanotechnology. Congratulations!
LMBM received an NSF award (see UMass MIE news and UMass News) to support our study in mechanical regulation of neural induction.
Earlier this year, LMBM received an internal award from IALS M2M to support our collaborative research with Prof. Mingxu You from Department of Chemistry. Prof. Sun also received a Flex Grants for Teaching/Faculty Development from TEFD to support his graduate course Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics.
7/28/2017
Prof. Sun gave an invited talk in the Society of Engineering Science (SES) annual technical meeting in Boston.
07/26/2017
4/18/2017
Nariman will give a talk in Natick, MA for his work on SERS cancer diagnosis and biomarker detection.
4/14/2017
IEEE NEMS 2017 in LA is a success. Prof. Sun organized an invited session ‘Micro/nanosystems Mechanobiology’ and gave an invited talk. Thanks to the conference organizers and all the invited speakers!