News
May 2024
Chinmay completes his PhD and graduates from Penn State! Congrats!
Zach, Tomi, and Angelica complete their honors theses and graduate from Penn State! Congratulations!
Chinmay's graduation
Zach receives the Department of Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Research Award
December 2023
Jessica presents at the ASCB conference in Boston.
Shelby, Arefeh, and Sakib join the group. Welcome!
October 2023
Tori presents a poster at the BMES conference.
September 2023
Farah presents a poster at the NOBCChE conference.
May 2023
Tori, Blessing, and Erica join the group for the summer. Welcome!
Congratulations to Chinmay Sankhe for receiving a 2nd place oral presentation award at the Penn State College of Engineering Research Symposium!
November 2022
Congratulations to Jessica Sacco for receiving a Penn State Cancer Institute CRTEC travel award!
Zachary Vaneman received 1st place for his poster in the Food, Pharma, and Biotech Division at the AIChE Undergraduate Poster Competition. Congrats Zach!
Malcom presents at the ABRCMS conference.
October 2022
Jessica presents at the BMES and EpiBio conferences.
Quynh joins the group for a lab rotation. Welcome!
September 2022
Farah presents a poster at the NOBBChE conference.
August 2022
Leah, Tomi, Diego, Yuval and Abigail join the group. Welcome!
June 2022
Malcom Diaz Garcia and Jaymarie Mendez join the group for the summer. Welcome!
Zachary Vaneman is awarded a Department of Chemical Engineering Biofellowship to do research in our lab this summer. Congrats!
April 2022
Congratulations to Ava Self for being named a finalist for the Robert F. Guentter, Jr. Undergraduate Thesis Award!
Congratulations to Jessica Sacco for receiving a Department of Chemical Engineering Graduate Excellence Award and for being awarded a NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Graduate Fellowship!
Melissa Ling is awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Congrats!
January 2022
Srikanth Baskar, Farah Douglas, Stella Kibinda, and David Soares join the group. Welcome!
October 2021
Congratulations to Ava Self for being named a Future Leader in Chemical Engineering! She will participate in a national awards symposium for undergraduate researchers.
August 2021
Congratulations to Jessica Sacco for being awarded a NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Graduate Fellowship!
June 2021
Elix Sumner joins the group for the summer. Welcome!
Benjamin Martin is awarded a Department of Chemical Engineering Biofellowship to do research in our lab this summer. Congrats!
January 2021
Congratulations to Chinmay Sankhe for being awarded the Leighton Riess Graduate Fellowship in Engineering!
May 2020
Congratulations to Ava Self for being selected as a 2020 Astronaut Scholar!
April 2020
Congratulations to Melissa Ling for being selected as the student marshal for the Biomedical Engineering department for Spring 2020!
Congratulations to Josh Pezzulo for being selected for the Outstanding Senior Award for Penn State from the Central PA section of AIChE!
October 2019
Jessica joins the group. Welcome!
August 2019
Chinmay receives the best qualifying exam award from the Chemical Engineering Department! Congrats!
Joshua Pezzulo and Jacob Karnick are awarded College of Engineering Equity REU fellowships to do research in our lab this fall. Congrats!
June 2019
Matt Bierowski from Penn State Hershey joins the group for the summer for his medical student research project. He was awarded the Hill Family Medical Student Cancer Research Fund Award for his studies. Congrats!
May 2019
Stephanie Grant from St. Louis University and Anna Trofimoff from the University of Kansas join the group for the summer. Welcome!
Ava Self and Rachel Cecco are awarded Department of Chemical Engineering Biofellowships to do research in our lab this summer. Congrats!
Jacob Karnick is awarded a College of Engineering REU fellowship to do research in our lab this summer. Congrats!
Congratulations to Samantha Stewart and Grant Landwehr (former REU students in our group) for receiving the NSF graduate research fellowship!
The lab is awarded a College of Engineering Multidisciplinary seed grant in collaboration with the Ebrahimi and Kiani groups in Electrical Engineering.
October 2018
Jacob, Chinmay, and Joshua join the group. Welcome!
June 2018
Akanksha Gupta received the Best Student Presentation Award at the Electronic Materials Conference. Congrats!
May 2018
Trezjer Terry from Tuskegee University and Luigi Apollon from WPI join the group for the summer.
April 2018
Paul Blanchard is awarded an NSF graduate research fellowship. Congrats!
May 2017
Hadiyah Page from Tuskegee University and Grant Landwehr from LSU join the group for the summer.
October 2016
Sintu Rongpipi joins the group. Welcome!
Samantha Stewart presented results from her summer REU at the Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
August 2016
Dan Ye is awarded an Advanced Light Source Graduate Fellowship. Congrats Dan!
July 2016
The lab is awarded a Grace Woodward grant to examine structural changes of viruses during cell entry processes in collaboration with Susan Hafenstein.
June 2016
John Woltornist (Cornell University) joined the lab for the summer. Welcome John!
May 2016
Samantha Stewart (University of South Carolina) and Julian Kosacki (University of California, Irvine) join the lab for the summer. Welcome!
Gage Virgi is awarded a Department of Chemical Engineering Biofellowship to do research in our lab this summer. Congrats Gage!
June 2015
Congratulations to Akanksha Gupta for winning 2nd place for her presentation at the Millennium Cafe Pitch Competition.
May 2015
Diego Campos from Northeastern University and Clayton Crews from Tuskegee University join the lab for the summer. Welcome!
Paul Blanchard and Kyle Lorenz are awarded Department of Chemical Engineering Biofellowships to do research in our lab this summer. Congrats Paul and Kyle!
April 2015
Congratulations to Joseph O'Connor for winning 2nd place for his poster presentation at the College of Engineering Research Symposium.
March 2015
Dan Ye joins the group. Welcome Dan!
October 2014
Akanksha Gupta joins the group. Welcome Akanksha!
September 2014
An article by Eric Weidert and Steven Pohler is published in PLoS One. Congrats Eric and Steve!
Krunal Mistry is awarded a Penn State College of Engineering Research Initiative grant to conduct research in the Gomez lab this academic year. Congrats Krunal!
August 2014
Congratulations to Sandeep for passing his candidacy exam!
July 2014
Joseph O’Connor’s paper on the biomechanics and mechanobiology of TGFβ-induced EMT is published in Clinical and Translational Medicine.
June 2014
Todd Thompson from Tuskegee University joins the lab for the summer. Welcome Todd!
May 2014
Sandeep wins the egg toss at the department picnic!
Kira Ragazzo from Carnegie Mellon University and Joseph Hunter from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County join the lab for the summer. Welcome!
April 2014
Matt Bierowski and Krunal Mistry are awarded Penn State College of Engineering Research Experience for Undergraduates grants to perform research in the Gomez lab this summer. Congratulations!
John Veiszlemlein is awarded a Department of Chemical Engineering Biofellowship to do research in our lab this summer. Congrats John!
Congratulations to Joseph O’Connor and Steven Pohler for each winning a Best Poster Award at the College of Engineering Research Symposium.
March 2014
Dr. Manish Kumar and Dr. Esther Gomez will direct a NSF-sponsored REU program in Integration of Biology and Materials. More details: [Penn State REU].
February 2014
Joseph O’Connor presented his work at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
January 2014
Alison Roby joins the lab through the WISER program at Penn State. Welcome Alison!
December 2013
Joseph O’Connor’s work on the effect of cell shape on TGFβ-induced EMT is published in PLoS One.
November 2013
Joseph Wokpetah and Steven Pohler presented talks at the AIChE Meeting in San Francisco.
October 2013
Joseph O’Connor presented his work at the Biophysical Society Pennsylvania Network Meeting.
September 2013
Joseph O’Connor presented at the Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting in Seattle.
May 2013
Parth Ashar and Kaitlyn Johnson complete their undergraduate honors theses in the Gomez lab.
April 2013
Joseph O’Connor receives a Reiss Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations Joe!