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| Prof. Khademhosseini receives the EMBS Technical Achievement Award |
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We are happy to announce that Prof. Khademhosseini has been selected as the recipient of the 2013 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society's Technical Achievement Award. The award is given to recognize outstanding achievement, contribution and/or innovation in a technical area of biomedical engineering. Prof. Khademhosseini was cited for contributions at the interface between engineering, biomaterials and biological sciences, especially applications of micro- and nanoengineered biomaterials for regenerative medicine. It will be presented at the annual EMBS meeting in Japan (http://embc2013.embs.org/).
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| Dr. Gaharwar's work selected for the Merit Award at the 2013 Meeting of the Society For Biomaterials |
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We are proud to announce that Dr. Akhilesh Gaharwar's work on "Hyperbranched Polyester Hydrogels with Controlled Drug Release and Cell Adhesion Properties" was selected for Merit Award at 2013 SFB Annual Meeting (Boston). The research project was performed in our lab jointly by Drs. Akhilesh Gaharwar, Hongbin Zhang and Alpesh Patel. Congratulations to all of them! |
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| Khademhosseini Selected as a Member of an NIH study section |
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We are happy to announce that Prof. Khademhosseini was recently selected to serve as a standing member of the Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Sciences (BTSS) study section of the Center for Scientific Review (CRS) of NIH. Members are selected based on their demonstration of competence and achievement in their field as evidenced by the quality of research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals and other notable achievements. Dr. Khademhosseini will serve a four year term (2013-2017). |
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| Dr. Khademhosseini awarded the Young Investigator Award of the Controlled Release Society |
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We are proud to announce that Dr. Khademhosseini has been awarded the Young Investigator Award of the Controlled Release Society. This award recognizes the outstanding contribution of a member of the society (<40 years of age) in the area of controlled release and drug delivery. The award will be presented to Dr. Khademhosseini at the annual CRS meeting in Hawaii (July 2013). |
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| Congratulations to Dr. Akhilesh Gaharwar for faculty position at Texas A&M University!!! |
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We are very proud to announce that Dr. Gaharwar will be joining the faculty of Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University effective August 2013. Dr. Gaharwar joined the laboratory as a postdoctoral associate in April 2011. Since then he has worked closely on collaborative projects with Drs. Langer (MIT), Olsen (MIT), Reis and Gomes (Portugal). He has been a highly prolific and outstanding researcher in our group and he will surely continue this at TAMU! At TAMU, he aims to integrate nanomaterials and stem cells for the development of functional tissue interfaces. We wish him all the best for his future endeavor! |
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| Congratulations to Dr. Mehdi Nikkhah for faculty position at Arizona State University. |
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It is with great proud to announce that Dr. Mehdi Nikkhah will be joining the faculty of Department of Biomedical Engineering at Arizona State University effective January 2014. Mehdi joined our lab in April 2011, and since then he has been working in the areas of vascular network formation and cardiovascular tissue engineering. During the past years, Mehdi was the tissue engineering subgroup leader and transformed himself to one of the most successful and accomplished post-docs in the lab. In addition, he proved to be a great colleague, collaborator and team player. We wish him all the best with his future career ! |
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| Congratulations to Kyo-in Koo for professorship at University of Ulsan, Korea |
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Dr. Kyo-in Koo has started as a faculty at the Biomedical Engineering Department at University of Ulsan. Dr. Koo worked as a post doctoral fellow in the area of lens-free imaging and organs-on-a-chip in the laboratory. Congratulations Dr. Koo! |
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| Congratulations to Nezam Kachouie for faculty position at FIT, USA |
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We are proud to announce that Nezam, one of the lab's previous trainees, has started a faculty position at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). Nezam, performed microengineering and image processing research during his time in the laboratory and will continue to develop these areas in his own lab. We wish him a successful career! |
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| Congratulations to Dr. Jonghyun Oh for faculty position in Korea |
Posted: February 27, 2013
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We are proud to announce that Dr. Johghyun Oh, who was a post doc in the lab, has accepted an offer to start as a faculty at the Chonbuk National University in Korea. Dr. Oh worked on innovative microfluidic system to generate tissue constructs and will continue this work in his new position. We wish him great success in his new endeavor. |
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| Dr. Akhilesh K. Gaharwar and Dr. Shilpa Sant receives 2013 CMBE-BMES Rising Star/Fellow Award |
Posted: December 10, 2012
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It is with great pride that we announce that Dr. Akhilesh Gaharwar and lab alumni Dr. Shilpa Sant are selected for 2013 Cellular & Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) - Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Rising Star/Fellow Award. They both are invited to present oral talks based on their research carried out in Khademhosseini's lab. The award will be presented at the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Conference in Hawaii (USA) in Jan 2013. Congratulations Dr. Gaharwar and Dr. Sant! |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini receives the Small Young Innovator Award |
Posted: December 09, 2012
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We are happy to announce that Prof. Khademhosseini is a recipient of the Small Young Innovator Award, supported by Nanyang Technological University and Wiley VCH. The Small Young Innovator Award recognizes outstanding, interdisciplinary scientific work in the development and fundamental understanding of nanoscience and nanotechnology by a young scientist or engineer. The award recipient must also show exceptional promise as a developing leader in the areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Prof. Khademhosseini received this distinction for important contributions to the application of micro/nanotechnology to biomaterials and tissue engineering. The award will be presented at the Small Sciences Symposium in Singapore in Dec 2012. |
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| Congratulations to Dr. Keekyoung Kim for faculty position at University of British Columbia, BC Canada. |
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It is with great pride that we announce that Dr. Keekyoung Kim, an
alumni of the lab (NSERC PDF fellow 2010-2012) has accepted an offer
to start a faculty position at the University of British Columbia
Okanagan Campus in Kelowna, BC Canada. Dr. Kim worked in the area of
microarray and microfludics during his stay in the lab and developed
microarray platforms for high-throughput screening and microfludic
devices for fabricating microscale tissues. At the University of
British Columbia he will be appointed at the School of Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering Program. We wish him all the best in his future
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| Dr. Gauvin receives an award from Laval University |
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Congratulations to lab alumni Dr. Bob Gauvin (FQRNT Fellow, 2010-2011) for receiving the 2012 "Outstanding Graduate Under 35 Award" from Laval University in Québec, Canada. This award recognizes the excellence of early career achievements for Laval graduates under 35 years of age. While in the Khademhosseini Lab, Bob specialized in microfabrication approaches for tissue engineering and soft tissue mechanics. He currently is the Scientific Liaison Officer at the Quebec Center for Functional Materials. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini receives the T. G. Park Award for Emerging Biomaterials |
Posted: September 11, 2012
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We are proud to announce that Prof. Khademhosseini is the recipient of the 2013 T. G. Park Award for Emerging Biomaterial.s. This prize is awarded in honor of the late Prof. Park for landmark contributions to the biomaterials particularly for researchers who have led this field with innovative and challenging sprit. The Award lecture and the prize will be given in at KAIST, Korea in 2013. |
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| Congratulations to lab members/alumni for excitingindustrial and academic positions! |
Posted: September 09, 2012
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Congratulations are in order for a few of ourcurrent members and alumni who have found academic and industrial positions. Serge Ostrovidov has been promoted to Assistant Professor atWPI-AIMR at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. Serge has previously developedimportant methods for generating microscale neural and muscle tissues. Also, Alpesh Patel will be LivingProof in Cambridge as Sr. ResearchScientist. Alpesh developed advancedbiomaterials for tissue engineering applications while being a NSERC fellow inthe lab. Finally, Nezam Nezamoddini-Kachouie,an alumni of the lab (also an NSERC fellow 2008-2010), is appointed as anAssistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Florida Tech starting 2012. While in the lab Nezam worked on theapplications of image processing and statistical analysis to high-throughputstem cell research and combinatorial experiment design. |
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| Congratulations to Dr. Akhilesh Gaharwar for receiving annual Acta Student Award!! |
Posted: September 09, 2012
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We are proud that Dr. Akhilesh Gaharwar has been selected to receive “The Annual Acta Student Award” for his primary contribution to his manuscript published in Acta Biomaterialia in 2011. Acta Biomaterialia only makes two of these awards each year. The award will be presented to Dr. Gaharwar at the Materials Science and Technology Conference and Exposition (MS&T) 2012, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Congratulations Dr. Gaharwar! |
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| Dr. Khademhosseini selected as the 2012 Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award winner |
Posted: September 09, 2012
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Dr. Khademhosseini has been selected as the 2012 Young Investigator Award winner by the Biochemical Engineering Journal. This award recognizes outstanding excellence in research and practice contributed to the field of biochemical engineering by a community member under the age of 40. Dr. Khademhosseini will also give a plenary lecture at the 2012 AIChE annual meeting held October 28 to November 2, 2012, in Pittsburgh. view more information: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/biochemical-engineering-journal/young-investigator-award/ |
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| Halil Tekin selected as MIT’s Outstanding UROP Graduate Mentor |
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We are proud that our own Halil Tekin has been selected by MIT as the winner of the 2012 UROP Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. This award is a highly distinguished MIT award given to research mentors who demonstrated exceptional guidance and teaching in research setting. Halil has spent a great deal of time working with and training UROP students in the lab. In last four years, he has mentored over seven MIT undergraduate students most of who were involved in publication of journal articles, conference presentations, and patent applications. The award, which is nominated directly by UROP students, is a testament to the great experience that these students have had while working with Halil in our lab. Congratulations Halil! |
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| Dr. Shilpa Sant appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh |
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It is with great pride that we announce that Dr. Shilpa Sant has accepted an offer to start a faculty position at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Sant worked in the area of tissue engineering during her stay in the lab and developed numerous biomaterials for cardiovascular and tooth tissue engineering applications. At the University of Pittsburgh she will be appointed at the School of Pharmacy and the Bioengineering Department. We wish her all the best in her future career. |
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| Dr. Hojae Bae appointed as an Assistant Professor at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea! |
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We are proud to announce that Dr. Hojae Bae will be joining the faculty of the Department of Maxillofacial Biomedical Engineering and Institute of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, effective from March 2012. He joined the lab few years back and Hojae has transformed himself into one of the most accomplished members and has set high bar about what an individual can accomplish. He has shown this through great passion, leadership, and vision. We wish him all the best with his future career! |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini receives the ACS-BIOT Young Investigator Award |
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We are happy to announce that Dr. Khademhosseini has been selected as the 2012 Young Investigator Award of the American Chemical Society – Biochemical Technology Division. The Division of Biochemical Technology Young Investigator Award is intended to recognize an outstanding young contributor to the field of biochemical technology and active participant in the division programs. Dr. Khademhosseini received this award for his outstanding contributions in utilizing micro/nanoscale technologies and biomaterials for directing stem cell differentiation and engineering functional tissues for regenerative medicine and biosensing applications. The award will be given at the Spring ACS meeting in San Diego, CA, March 25-29, 2012. |
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| Prof. Khademhossieni receives the 2012 Curtis McGraw Award of the American Society for Engineering Education |
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Congratulations to Prof. Khademhosseini for receiving the 2012 Curtis McGraw Award of the ASEE . This is a major award given to younger engineers (under the age of 40). The Curtis W. McGraw Research Award was established in 1957 to recognize outstanding early achievements by young engineering college research workers and to encourage the continuance of such productivity. The annual award is sponsored by the Engineering Research Council with the assistance of the McGraw-Hill Book Company. It is based on research activity in one or more types of research ordinarily carried on by engineering colleges or institutes of technology as well as achievement of important advances accepted by colleagues and by others in the field of specialization with emphasis on quality rather than quantity as well as sound and productive thinking and with a promise for making other significant contributions. |
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| Congratulations to Halil Tekin for receiving the Bioanalysis Highly Commended Young Investigator Award |
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Bioanalysis Young Investigator awards are to recognize and encourage young scientists in bioanalysis field and highlight their work for bioanalytical community. Halil Tekin was selected for the 2011 Bioanalysis Highly Commended Young Investigator Award after being highly commended by editorial board members and readers of Bioanalysis journal for his outstanding work in tissue engineering and its potential applications in high-throughput drug screening and bioanalytical studies. |
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| Congratulations to Halil Tekin for receiving Materials Research Society Best Student Oral Presentation Award |
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Materials Research Society (MRS) presented the Best Student Oral Presentation Award to Halil Tekin for his outstanding oral presentation entitled “Dynamic Micromolding Method” at 2011 Fall Meeting. According to MRS, “student awards are to recognize students of exceptional ability who show promise for significant future achievement in materials research”. Halil Tekin’s talk was based on his recent article published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini is the recipient of IUPAC Polymer Award |
Posted: December 18, 2011
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Congratulations to Prof. Khademhosseini who has been selected as the 2012 Polymer International - International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Polymer Award recipient for creativity in applied polymer science or polymer technology. This award celebrates the achievements of young researchers in the polymer community. The 2012 Award will be presented at the IUPAC World Polymer Congress - MACRO 2012, 24-29 June, 2012, Blacksburg, VA, USA. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini is elected as a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering |
Posted: December 04, 2011
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Congratulations to Prof. Khademhosseini for his election as a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Prof. Khademhosseini was selected by the existing fellowship of the AIMBE. AIMBE is a nonprofit organization that provides leadership and advocacy in medical and biological engineering for the benefit of society. The College of Fellows is comprised of about 1,000 of the country’s most outstanding biomedical and biological engineers in academia, industry, and government. |
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| Dr. Khademhosseini selected as the 2012 Biotechnology and Bioengineering Daniel I.C. Wang Award recipient |
Posted: November 16, 2011
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We are proud to announce that Prof. Khademhosseini has been selected as the 2012 Biotechnology and Bioengineering Daniel I.C. Wang Award recipient by the Biotechnology & Bioengineering Journal. This award honors an accomplished younger member of our community for outstanding contributions to the field of bioengineering as well as his or her commitment to the Journal and the community it serves. In addition to the recognition, Prof. Khademhosseini will also give a keynote lecture at the 2012 Spring ACS Annual Meeting, to be held in San Diego, California, March 25-29, 2012. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini receives the Pioneers of Miniaturization Prize |
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Prof. Khademhosseini was selected as the winner of the 2011 Pioneers of Miniaturization Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Lab on a Chip Journal and Corning Incorporated. The Pioneer Prize is awarded annually for extraordinary or outstanding contributions to the understanding or development of miniaturized systems. It one of the most highly recognized prizes in the field of micro-technology. Prof. Khademhosseini received this prize for his leadership in the engineering of microfabricated tissue structures with biomimetic architecture and function. The prize was announced at the 2011 MicroTAS meeting in Seattle. |
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| President Obama to recognize Prof. Khademhosseini with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) |
Posted: September 28, 2011
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Prof. Khademhosseini has been selected to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. The White House, following recommendations from participating agencies, confers the awards annually. The recipients will receive this distinction directly from President Obama at a meeting at White House. The PECASE website mentions that “the Presidential Awards are intended to recognize some of the finest scientists and engineers who, while early in their research careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge during the twenty-first century. The Awards will foster innovative and far-reaching developments in science and technology, increase awareness of careers in science and engineering, give recognition to the scientific missions of participating agencies, enhance connections between fundamental research and national goals, and highlight the importance of science and technology for the nation's future.” |
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| Congratulations to Dr. Jason W. Nichol for faculty/Chair position at Endicott College in Beverly, MA |
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We are proud to announce that Dr. Jason Nichol will be joining Endicott College as the first Chair of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics & Assistant Professor of Biotechnology starting August 15th, 2011. As Chair, Jason will be the administrator in charge of all the science departments (currently Mathematics, Biotechnology, Computer Science and Environmental Science), as well as teaching and research in Biotechnology. In our lab, Dr. Nichol was a Tissue Engineering subgroup leader, as well as engineered cell-laden micropatterning techniques in hydrogels to control cell alignment for cardiac and other regenerative medicine applications. We wish him continued success in this new role on Boston’s beautiful North Shore!
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| Congratulations to Dr. Ying-Chieh Chen for faculty position in National Hsin-Chu University in Taiwan |
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We are proud to announce that Dr. Ying-Chieh Chen will be joining the Department of Applied Science, National Hsin-Chu University, Taiwan, as an assistant professor starting Aug. 1st, 2011. In our lab, Dr. Chen mainly worked on developing vascular network formation in vitro and in vivo into three-dimensional photocrosslinkable hydrogels for tissue engineering and regenerative applications. We wish her all the best in the future! |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini selected as the Associate Editor for Lab on a Chip |
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It is with great pleasure that we announce that Prof. Khademhosseini has been selected as the Associate Editor for Research Highlights for the leading journal in the field of bio-micro-technology, Lab on a Chip. As part of this new role, Prof. Khademhosseini along with selected co-authors, will contribute a bi-weekly column to the journal in which they highlight the latest breakthroughs in the field. The new column will starting this summer and will continue in every upcoming issue of the journal (24 per year). Tips about new and exciting papers that may be considered to be highlighted should be sent directly to alik@rics.bwh.harvard.edu.
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| Prof. Khademhosseini selected by the National Academy of Engineering for the Frontiers of Engineering meeting |
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Congratulations to Prof. Khademhosseini who has been selected by the National Academy of Engineering as one of the participants in the prestigious U.S. Frontiers of Engineering meeting. The annual 3 day meeting brings together leading engineers ages 30-45 from industry, academia and government to discuss pioneering research in different engineering fields. Each year’s program is designed to provide these leading engineers with an opportunity to learn about cutting-edge developments in fields other than their own, to initiate collaborations and establish cross-disciplinary and cross-sector contacts with their peers early in their careers. This year’s themes will be: Additive Manufacturing, Engineering Sustainable Buildings, Semantic Processing, and Neuroprosthetics. The meeting will be held at Google headquarters in Mountain View California from Sept 19 to 21. More information about this can be found at: http://www.naefrontiers.org/
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| Dr. Bob Gauvin joins the Weapons Effects and Protection Section at Defence R&D Canada. |
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Bob will work as a Defence Scientist at Defence R&D Canada in Valcartier,
QC, starting June 1st 2011. The Weapons Effects and Protection Section aims
at the development and the optimization of military protection gear and
equipment. This work will involve biomechanical studies of ballistic and
blast injuries, especially TBI, correlated to material response to
high-stress and high-rate impacts. During his stay in the Khademhosseini
Lab, Bob has been using microfabrication technologies to develop biomimetic
materials and to engineer their mechanical and biological properties. We
wish him all the best in land of old-time hockey!
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| Prof. Khademhosseini receives the 2011 IEEE Early Career Award in Nanotechnology |
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Prof. Khademhosseini is the recipient of the 2011 IEEE Early Career Award in Nanotechnology. This decision was announced on April 15, 2011, by the IEEE Nanotechnology Council, which consists of 21 IEEE member societies. The award recognizes an individual who has made contributions with major impact on the field of nanotechnology at the early stages of their career. The citation of the award is “for outstanding nano- and micro-engineering innovations for controlling the cellular environment for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine”. Prof. Khademhosseini will receive this recognition at the IEEE NANO 2011 Conference in Portland, Oregon on Monday, August 15, 2011. NANO is the flagship IEEE conference in nanotechnology for researchers working at the interface of nanotechnology and the other fields including electronic materials, photonics, bio-and medical devices, alternative energy, environmental protection, and other current and future electrical and electronic applications. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini selected as the Donald D. Harrington Fellow at UT Austin |
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This award will allow Prof. Khademhosseini to be a visiting scholar in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at UT Austin for the fall 2011 semester. The Donald D. Harrington Fellows Program supports outstanding faculty that are near the beginning of their professional careers. Fellowships are awarded annually to the most highly qualified applicants from universities throughout the United States and around the world. The Donald D. Harrington Fellows Program is one of the most well-endowed visiting scholar and graduate fellow programs in the nation, and the most prestigious at The University of Texas at Austin.
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| Dr. Ian Wheeldon will join UC-Riverside as faculty |
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We are proud to announce that Dr. Ian Wheeldon will be joining the Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Riverside starting July 1st, 2011. At UC, Riverside Dr. Wheeldon will be developing protein engineering technologies and bio-inspired designs to address current challenges in bioenergy, biocatalysis, and biological materials. In our lab, Dr. Wheeldon has been designing combinatorial biomaterials synthesis and screening technologies.We wish him all the best in the future! |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini is promoted to Associate Professor |
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Prof. Khademhosseini is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at Harvard University. This appointment is retroactive to September 1 2010, nearly four years since the lab started. This promotion was based on his outstanding accomplishments in research and education. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini receives the 2011 Sloan Fellowship |
Posted: February 15, 2011
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Congratulations to Prof. Khademhosseini who has been awarded a Sloan fellowship (http://www.sloan.org/
fellowships/).
Annually the Sloan fellowship is given by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to scientists, mathematicians and economists who are at an early stage of their research careers. The Sloan Research Fellowships have been awarded since 1955, and 38 of the fellows have gone on to win the Nobel Prize. Current or former Sloan Fellows have been chosen to receive the National Medal of Science 57 times, the Fields Medal 14 times, and the John Bates Clark Medal–the most prestigious honor for young economists–9 times. |
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| Congratulations to Dr. Hojae Bae for faculty position at Harvard Medical School! |
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We are proud to announce that Dr. Hojae Bae has been appointed as an Instructor of the Department of Medicine in Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bae worked on number of projects during his postdoctoral research fellow in our lab including stem cell bioengineering and biomaterial based hydrogels. Dr. Bae’s future works will concentrate on exploring controlling the cell behavior, such as stem cell differentiation or 3D cellular migration by tuning the hydrogel properties. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini joins the faculty of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering |
Posted: December 31, 2010
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Prof. Khademhosseini has been elected as an Associate Faculty of the Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. The Wyss Institute which was initiated by the largest single gift to Harvard University brings together leading faculty from across Harvard University and affiliated institutes to use bioinspired approaches to address challenges in a range of fields ranging from biomedicine and energy. Dr. Khademhosseini’s involvement at Wyss will revolve around development of self-assembling microsystems and biomimetic materials. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini receives the Y.C. Fung Young Investigator award of ASME |
Posted: December 10, 2010
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Congratulations to Prof. Khademhosseini for receiving the Y.C. Fung
Young Investigator award of the American Society for Mechanical
Engineers (ASME). The Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award is awarded
annually to a young investigator who has demonstrated significant
potential to make substantial contributions to the field of
Bioengineering. The award was established by the Bioengineering
Division in 1985 and operated as a division award until 1998 when it
was elevated to a Society award. The award prize and a medal will be
presented to Dr. Khademhosseini at the annual Summer Bioengineering
Conference of ASME. Previous winners of the award are listed here: http://www.asme.org/Governance/
Honors/SocietyAwards/YC_Fung_Young_Investigator.cfm
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| Profs. Khademhosseini receives the 2011 Society for Biomaterials Young Investigator Award |
Posted: November 01, 2010
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Congratulations to Prof. Khademhosseini for receiving the Young Investigator
Award of the Society for Biomaterials (SFB). The SFB Young Investigator
award is given annually to recognize an individual who has demonstrated
outstanding achievement in the field of biomaterials research within ten
years following his/her terminal degree. The award lecture and prize will be given at the SFB Annual meeting at Orlando, Florida, April 13-16, 2011. The co-recipient of this award is Prof. Jeff Karp also from Harvard University. Prof. Khademhosseini and Karp, who are close friends, started graduate school at University of Toronto and spent time at MIT prior to their faculty careers.
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| Congratulations to Dr. Murugan Ramalingam for faculty position at the INSERM (France)! |
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We are proud to announce that Dr. Murugan Ramalingam, who is an Assistant Professor at the WPI-AIMR (Tohoku University, Japan), will be joining INSERM (National Institute of Health and Medical Research) Research Center at the University of Strasbourg, France. Concurrently, Dr. Murugan holds Adjunct Professorship at the WPI-AIMR, Japan and continues to collaborate with Dr. Ali Khademhosseini. His research interests are focused on the development of multiphase biomaterials, through conventional to biomimetics, biodevices, cell patterning and tissue engineering. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors! |
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| Dr. Khademhosseini receives the 2010 TERMIS-NA Young Investigator Award |
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We are happy to announce that Dr. Ali Khademhosseini will be presented with the 2010 Young Investigator Award during the upcoming Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS-NA) Annual Conference. The 2010 TERMIS-NA Conference will be held from December 5-8 in Orlando, Florida. TERMIS-NA Young Investigator award is given annually to an individual within ten years of a PhD who has made outstanding contributions in the area of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Dr. Khademhosseini will also get the opportunity to present the work of the laboratory during a plenary session at the 2010 TERMIS-NA Annual Conference. |
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| Congratulations to Dr. Yanan Du for faculty position at Tsinghua University! |
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We are proud to announce that Dr. Yanan Du will be joining the Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, China, as a principle investigator and tenure-track professor. In our lab, Dr. Du mainly worked on developing bottom-up approaches for tissue engineering and microfluidic systems for gradient generation and cell-based biosensing. We wish him all the best in the future! |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini received the AIChE Colburn Award |
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Congratulations to Prof. Khademhosseini for receiving the 2010 American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Allan F. Colburn Award for excellence in publications by a young member of the institute. This award is sponsored by E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company and will be presented at the AIChE Annual Meeting. Previous winners of the award are listed here: http://www.aiche.org/about/awards/allanpcolburn.aspx
AIChE is the global professional community for over 40,000 chemical engineers in 93 countries. |
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| Dr. Khademhosseini receives the 2010 ACS Unilever Award. |
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Dr. Khademhosseini was selected as the winner of the ACS Colloid and Surface Science Division Unilever Award for 2010. The award is to recognize and encourage fundamental work in colloid or surfactant science carried out in North America by researchers in the early stages of their careers. The award presentation and the lecture will be held during the IACIS/ACS 84th Colloid and Surface Science Division joint meeting at The University of Akron in Akron, Ohio on June 20-23, 2010 (http://www.colloids2010.org). |
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| Congratulations to Dr. Khademhosseini for receiving the 2010 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award |
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Dr. Khademhosseini has received the U.S. Navy’s 2010 Young Investigator award (YIP). ONR's young investigators are considered among the top academic researchers in the country based on their past research achievements, potential for continued outstanding research efforts, and strong support and commitment from their respective universities and research institutions. YIP seeks to identify and support academic scientists and engineers who have received a doctorate or equivalent degrees within the past five years and who show exceptional promise for doing cutting-edge research. YIP's objectives are to attract outstanding faculty members of institutions of higher education to the Department of the Navy's research program, support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers |
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| Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Hancock for receiving the STAR award |
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The Society for Biomaterials presented the 2010 Northeast Biomaterials Day Conference STAR Award to our own Dr. Matthew Hancock for an outstanding post-doctoral oral presentation entitled “Generating long material gradients by convection and alternating flow in a microchannel”. The Student Travel Achievement Recognitions (STARs) recognize research excellence and develop future leaders within the Society for Biomaterials. Dr. Hancock’s talk was based on a recent article published in the journal Biomaterials and co-authored with Dr. Yanan Du, Jiankang He, Jose Villa-Uribe, Ben Wang, Dr. Donald Cropek and Prof. Ali Khademhosseini.
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| Congratulations to Dr. Adam Hacking for faculty position at Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital |
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We are proud to announce that Dr. S. Adam Hacking, who was a post doc in the lab for the past couple of years will be joining Harvard Medical School and the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital as a faculty starting April 1, 2010. Dr. Hacking will be working on novel approaches to enhance bone regeneration, combat implant infection and improve orthopedic care. We wish him all the best in the future!
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| Khademhosseini Lab students get into outstanding schools! |
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We are proud to announce that Khademhosseini lab students Alex Bick, Sandeep Koshy and Mahdokht Masaeli have been accepted to world class graduate programs. Alex worked as an undergraduate student in the lab for four years, developing microfluidic hydrogels and understanding how cell-extracellular matrix interactions promote endothelial mesenchymal transformation. Alex will be attending the Harvard-MIT MD/PhD medical-scientist training program in the fall. Sandeep was a visiting student from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada who worked on developing a new hydrogel system for tissue engineering in our lab. Sandeep will matriculate in the Medical Engineering/Medical Physics doctoral program at Harvard-MIT. Mahdokht was a visiting student from Northeastern University in Boston and mainly worked on self assembly of hydrogels for tissue engineering. She is going to attend the Biomedical Engineering program at either Columbia University or UCLA. All three of these students published one or more papers while in our lab. We congratulate Alex, Sandeep and Mahdokht for their wonderful accomplishments and look forward to their continued development and success as scientists in the future. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini received the 2010 ALA Innovation Award |
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Congratulations to Prof. Khademhosseini for receiving the 2010 Association for Lab Automation (ALA) Innovation Award. The ALA Innovation Award recognizes seminal research and development in laboratory automation presented in podium presentations at the annual LabAutomation conference. To be granted the Innovation Award, the presented work must be exceedingly innovative contributing to the exploration of automation technologies in the laboratory. In addition, it must exhibit independence of thought, clarity of vision, extraordinary technical originality, and unique integration and automation strategies. Prof. Khademhosseini received this award for research in the development of microengineered hydrogels for tissue engineering and stem cell bioengineering.
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| Congratulations to Dr. Won Gu Lee for faculty position at Kyung Hee University! |
Posted: December 17, 2009
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We are proud to announce that Dr. Won Gu Lee will be joining the faculty of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Korea. In our lab Won Gu worked on developing microfluidic systems for screening stem cell microenvironments in a high-throughput manner. His research interests focus on "Enabling technology platforms for diagnostics, therapeutics, and future medicine". We wish him all the best in the future!
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| Congratulations to Dr. Bonggeun Chung for faculty position at Hanyang University! |
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We are proud to announce that Dr. Bonggeun Chung will be joining the faculty of the Engineering School of Hanyang University in Korea. Hanyang University has one of the best and oldest engineering schools in Korea. In particular it has graduated many accomplished people including chairmen, vice chairmen, and CEOs of the nation's leading companies, such as Hyundai, Samsung, and LG (wikipedia.org).
Bonggeun joined the lab as one of its earliest members and saw its growth. He also significantly contributed to this growth through many great papers, endless passion, leadership and vision. Bonggeun joins a growing number of our alumni who are faculty at various institutions all over the world. We wish him all the best in the future! |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini receives the IAMBE Award for Young Faculty |
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Congratulations to Prof. Khademhosseini who has received the International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) Award for Young Faculty Members. This award is given to a faculty member under the age of 40 years who has demonstrated outstanding scientific achievements in the area of bioengineering. The award will be presented to Dr. Khademhosseini at the annual World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering in Munich. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini receives the NSF CAREER and Class of 7T6 awards ! |
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Prof. Khademhosseini is the recipient of two recent awards. He was one of the awardees of the 2009 National Science Foundation Early Career award. This award which is annually given to the nation’s most promising young faculty will be used to study mesoscale self-assembly of hydrophilic molecules. In addition, Prof. Khademhosseini receives his alma mater’s Early Career award. He is one of the recipients of the University of Toronto Engineering alumni’s class of 7T6 award. This award, which is annually given to an early career alumni after ten years of graduation from U of T’s Engineering School, will be celebrated at an event in November 2009. |
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| Congratulations to Mahesh for receiving Randolph G. Wei UROP Award! |
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Mahesh K. Vidula, an MIT biological engineering undergraduate student in Khademhosseini’ lab, has been selected as a co-recipient of the 2009 Randolph G. Wei UROP Award. The Wei UROP Award is given to active UROP participant for outstanding work "at the interface of the life sciences and engineering. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini highlights the progress in tissue engineering in Scientific American |
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Profs. Khademhosseini, along with Prof. Robert Langer of MIT and Prof. Jay Vacanti of Harvard, wrote an article in May 2009 edition of the Scientific American magazine to highlight the progress in Tissue Engineering over the past decade. Scientific American, is one of the oldest, most popular and most prestigious scientific magazines in the world. |
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| Dr. JinSeok Kim returned to KIST in Korea |
Posted: February 25, 2009
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February 25, 2009
Dr. Kim is going back to work in Korea after 1 year of working in this lab as a post doc and visiting researcher. He is a senior research scientist at Nano-Bio Research Center in Korea Institue of Science and Technology. His work has been focused on cardiac tissue engineering to develop natural 3D heart tissue and myofiber organization of cardiomyocyte in our lab. JinSeok is also interested in functional nano-micro devices and applications of cardiac tissue engineering. |
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| Dr. Yu-Shik Hwang appointed as an Assistant Professor in Korea |
Posted: February 19, 2009
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Congratulations to Yu-Shik's appointment as a assistant professor in college of dentistry, Kyunghee University, Seoul, effective from March 2009. He has focused on Microengineered Microwell Array based Embryonic Stem Cell fate specification study during his postdoctoral training in our lab. Yu-Shik's research interest includes Embryonic Stem Cell and Adult Stem Cell based Bioengineering and Tissue Engineering. |
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| Dr. Lifeng Kang appointed as a Lecturer in Singapore |
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Congratulations to Lifeng's appointment as a Lecturer in Department of
Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, effective from February 2009.
He has focused on hydrogel microwell array study during his 2-year
postdoctoral training in our lab. Lifeng’s research interest includes the
development of biomaterials for drug delivery and tissue engineering. |
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| Dr. Bonggeun Chung is appointed as an Instructor in Harvard Medical School |
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Congratulations to Dr. Bonggeun Chung !! Dr. Chung has been appointed as an Instructor of the Department of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology (HST) in Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chung has contributed to a number of projects during his postdoctoral research fellow in our lab including stem cell bioengineering and cell-based high-throughput microfluidics. |
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| Congratulations to Dr. Jae Hong Park |
Posted: September 16, 2008
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Congratulations to Dr. Jae Hong Park. He has been appointed as a senior researcher of the NEMS-BIO team in the prestigious Korean National NanoFeb Center, starting from October 15, 2008. His research field is Nano-Micro-Bio device and materials including Nano-micro-fluidics, Nano-Micro-wells, Lab on a Chips (DNA, protein, and cell chips), Bio-sensors, Regenerative medicine (organ chips). He has contributed to a number of projects on microfluidic channel fabrication and biomaterials during his stay in our lab. |
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| Congratulations to Mahesh, Yanan, and Prof. Khademhosseini |
Posted: September 16, 2008
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The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) awarded Mahesh K. Vidula, an MIT biological engineering undergraduate student, the 2008 Undergraduate Student Design and Research Award for the project, "A Pump-less Microfluidic Chip to Detect Cardiac Toxicity"; BMES also awarded Dr. Yanan Du and Prof. Khademhosseini the Outstanding Paper award. Their paper, "Method of bottom up directed assembly of cell-laden microgels", will be published in the new BMES journal “Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering”. |
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| Dr. Shim is appointed as faculty in Korea |
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Congratulations to our own Dr. Jae Sool Shim has been appointed as a faculty member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Korea, starting from September 1,2008. The mecanical engineering at Yeungnam University is one of the biggest in Korea (http://me.yu.ac.kr/index.jsp). He will teach two courses: 'Nanotechnology' and 'Numerical Analysis'. He contributed to a number of projects during his stay in our lab including high-throughput engineering of cellular microenvironments and mathematical analysis of fluid flow in microchannels. |
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| Dr. Khademhosseini receives the IEEE/EMBS Early career award |
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Dr. Khademhosseini received the 2008 IEEE-EMBS early career award. This award is given annually for significant contributions to the field of biomedical engineering as evidenced by innovative research design, product development, patents, and/or publications made by an individual who is within 10 years of completing their highest degree at the time of the nomination. The ceremony will be held on August 21 during the Welcome Reception of EMBC'08. |
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| Congratulations to Dr. Demirci for receiving the CIMIT award for medical technology |
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As reported in Boston Globe, Dr. Utkan Demirci, whose team also includes Dr. Ali Khademhosseini has received a grant from the CIMIT to create a disposable device that medical workers can use to monitor HIV infections on the battlefield or in developing countries with limited resources. |
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| Congrats to Yanan, Edward, Shamsher and Prof. Khademhosseini |
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Congrats to our group for publishing a paper in PNAS in which we developed a bottom-up approach to direct the assembly of cell-laden microgels to generate tissue constructs with tunable microarchitecture and complexity. This assembly process is driven by the tendency of multi-phase liquid-liquid systems to minimize the surface area and the resulting surface free energy between the phases. This bottom-up approach for the directed assembly of cell-laden microgels provides a powerful and highly scalable approach to form biomimetic 3D tissue constructs and opens a new paradigm for directing the assembly of mesoscale materials. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini awarded the 2008 LaMer Award of the American Chemical Society |
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Prof. Khademhosseini has been selected as the 2008 LaMer Award winner by the American Chemical Society. Annually, the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry of the American Chemical Society selects the outstanding PhD Thesis for the year. All PhD candidates from chemistry, materials science, chemical engineering, physics, biochemistry, etc. programs, from US and Canadian Schools, who completed research in colloids or surface chemistry, are eligible for this award. Selection is based on originality, significance, and quality of the work, as well as clearly visible contribution of the student independent of the professor, and promise of the student as a future investigator. As a recognition of this accomplishment he will be giving the LaMer plenary lecture at the ACS Colloids & Surface Science Symposium at NC State University.
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| Prof. Khademhosseini co-edits the book on ‘Micro- and nano engineering the cell microenvironment' |
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Prof. Khademhosseini and colleagues edit the first volume to thoroughly cover the use of micro and nano system technologies involved in developing cell-based bioengineering application. Supported with 140 illustrations and written by pioneers in the field, it explores the top-down and bottom-up technologies that can be used to control various aspects of the cellular microenvironment. (http://tinyurl.com/67styy) |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini wins BMW Science Award |
Posted: December 11, 2007
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Prof. Khademhosseini has won first prize in the doctoral thesis category of the 2007 BMW Science Award competition. The award was presented to Prof. Khademhosseini in a ceremony at the Deutsches Museum in Munich on December 6, 2007. The award, which honors all disciplines, ranks among the most prestigious international prizes for up-and-coming scientists. This year, the award-winning entries competed against a total of 241 submissions from 25 countries and 22 different fields. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini awarded the TR35 Top Young Innovator Award |
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Prof. Khademhosseini has been recognized by Technology Review magazine as one of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35 for the development of novel tissue engineering and cell culture approaches. Selected from more than 300 nominees by a panel of expert judges and the editorial staff of Technology Review, the TR35 is an elite group of accomplished young innovators who exemplify the spirit of innovation in business, technology and the arts. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini awarded NIH funding |
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Prof. Khademhosseini was awarded NIH funding to study the mechanisms of embryonic stem cell differentiation within controlled microengineered systems. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini selected as a finalist for BMW Science Award |
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Prof Khademhosseini was selected as one of the 5 finalists for the BMW Science Award for best PhD thesis. The final selection will be made in Germany in the fall. |
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| Prof. Khademhosseini awarded NIH funding for engineering microenvironments to study epithelial mesenchymal interactions |
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Prof. Khademhosseini and colleagues including Drs. Demirci and Maas were awarded an NIH U54 Center grant to systematically study the mammalian embryonic development. |
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| Dr. Sun Min Kim appointed as Assistant Professor in Kyungwon Univerisity, Korea |
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Dr. Sun Min Kim joined as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of BioNano Technology & Gachon BioNano Research Institute at Kyungwon Univerisity,Korea. Congrats Sun Min |
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| Dr. Sengupta awarded the DOD Era of Hope |
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Congratulatoins to Dr. Sengupta from being awarded the DOD ERA of hope scholar award. |
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| Congratulations Dr. Utkan Demirci on winning TR35! |
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Prof. Utkan Demirci has won Technology Review's 2006 Young Innovator Award. Please join us on congratulating him for this great achievement.
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| Prof. Khademhosseini awarded the Coulter Foundation Early Career Award |
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Prof. Khademhosseini was awarded one of the 2006 Coulter Foundation Early Career Awards. |
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