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.
Oct. 2018
Tianfa presented his work (together with two more from Peiran) in BMES 2018 in Atlanta, GA.
Check out our newest review paper on engineered in vitro organogenesis here.
This paper is featured as the front cover.
Our newest work on in vitro neural plate model has been published in Nature Materials. See the paper and news articles [Michigan News] [UMass News].
See the News and Views by Mukul Tewary & Peter W. Zandstra [Nature Materials]
4/15/2018
Nariman’s team (KINASE INC) won the 3rd place and $15,000 in the final round of the Innovation Challenge. Congratulations!!! [News]
3/29/2018
Peiran successfully defended his master thesis. Congratulations!
1/26/2018
Tianfa passed his qualify exam. Congratulations!