2025 

12/02     The 1st paper of Chen Lab is officially online today. Congrats to the team!!!

11/13 Dr. Hu presented his work on cryo-lift out at the 1st CASE VA CARE Symposium.

10/31 Dr. Gopakumar will join our lab in February 2026. Welcome, Vidya. 

09/25 Dr. Chen was invited to give a seminar talk in the BME department at CWRU.

09/18 Together with the whole department, we enjoyed our first department annual retreat and presented our research at the University Farm. 

08/05 Dr. Chen Receives Secondary Appointment in Biomedical Engineering, Case School of Medicine.

07/14 Congrats to Mai, who has been selected as Postdoc of the Month by the Daily CWRU. 

07/12 Our first lab retreat was held at University Farm.

06/01 Welcome Ellie from Gilmour Academy. 

05/12 Congrats to Mai on her PhD defense and welcome to our lab in June!

05/05 Dr. Chen presents OCT contrast agents for corneal stromal cell tracking at ARVO. 

04/24     Welcome Wei Sun!

04/14     Welcome Tao Hu!

04/01 Welcome Xiaoyan Ma!

01/22 Dr. Chen becomes a member of the CWRU Center for Imaging Research. Looking forward to new collaborations!

01/16 Dr. Chen becomes a member of the Visual Sciences Research Center at CWRU. 

01/16 Dr. Chen was selected as an Early Career Board Member (ECB) of ACS Applied Nano Materials. Congrats!

01/01 The Chen Lab-ACT with Biomaterials officially opens. Congrats!

2024 

What can AI do in terms of nanoparticle quantification?

Check out our most recent paper-Quantifying particle concentration via AI-enhanced optical coherence tomography, featured by Nanoscale profiles: contributors to the 2024 Emerging Investigators collection. 

The Chen Lab-ACT with Biomaterials is settled at CWRU!

We are excited to announce that the Chen Lab-ACT with Biomaterials is settled at the CWRU Pharmacology Department! ACT with Biomaterials stands for advancing curative therapies with biomaterials. Our goal is to use our knowledge and experiences to improve human health. We are hiring highly motivated postdoc and graduate students with the same goal.