Halil Tekin selected as MIT’s Outstanding UROP Graduate Mentor
April 28, 2012
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!
Dr. Shilpa Sant appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
April 09, 2012
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.
Dr. Hojae Bae appointed as an Assistant Professor at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea!
January 30, 2012
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!
Prof. Khademhosseini receives the ACS-BIOT Young Investigator Award
January 30, 2012
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.
The Khademhosseini Lab uses a multi-disciplinary approach, to develop microscale and nanoscale technologies with the ultimate goal of generating tissue-engineered organs and controlling cell behavior.
A. Khademhosseini, J. Vacanti, R. Langer. “Tissue Engineering: Next Generation Tissue Constructs and Challenges to Clinical Practice” Scientific American. 300(1):64-71(2009).
Y.-S. Hwang*, B.G. Chung*, D. Ortmann*, N. Hattori, H.-C. Moeller, A. Khademhosseini. “Microwell mediated control of embryoid body size regulates embryonic stem cell fate via differential expression of WNT5a and WNT11” Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences USA. 106(40):16978-83(2009).
Y. Du*, E. Lo*, A. Shamsher, A. Khademhosseini. “Directed assembly of cell-laden microgels for fabrication of 3D tissue constructs” Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences USA. 150(28)：9522-9527(2009).
Y. Ling, J. Rubin, Y. Deng, C. Huang, U. Demirci, J. M. Karpae and A. Khademhosseini. A cell-laden microfluidic hydrogel”. Lab Chip, 7, 756–762. (2007).
