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To conclude 2025, we built an interactive webpage to illustrate our modeling of (i) cell retention at different injection depth and (ii) how injection volume affect hypoxia and growth rate, out of our recently published OPTRACE paper (https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202514183).

Here is the website:https://liangy10.github.io/OPTRACE/, in which you could tune the parameters and see how the outcome changes.

All codes are available from the open-access paper and our lab github (https://github.com/liangy10/OPTRACE).

Hope our work could help push forward stem cell therapy of brain diseases.

Wish everyone a wonderful 2026!

Thrilled to share the good news that one of our recent studies has just been published in Advanced Science (impact factor of ~14). This work reflects the strong research culture and momentum enabled by our department, and it was also made possible by the unwavering support and guidance of our program directors, Prof. Walczak and Prof. Janowski. A huge thank-you to our outstanding team!

Links to the publication and related materials are below:

Paper: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202514183

Audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16m5UbbljajAbXKFfzDmYIxQpP-8lG_XR/view?usp=drive_link

Video: https://youtu.be/-4xu3TVvXWo

12/2025: Celebration of the publication of one of our major projects!

Excited to share that our manuscript, "OPTRACE: Optical Imaging–Guided Transplantation and Tracking of Cells in the Mouse Brain," has been accepted for publication in Advanced Science!

A massive congratulations to the entire team—your dedication, expertise, and collaborative spirit made this possible. Special thanks to everyone for their unwavering support throughout the process, from experiments to revisions. Couldn't have done it without you!

Proud to host our incredible cohort of summer interns at the Program in Image Guided Neurointerventions (PIGN), University of Maryland School of Medicine! Join us on July 24 for a morning of innovative research presentations, discovery, and scientific celebration.
Looking forward to supporting these bright minds as they share what they've accomplished this summer!

7/2025:

Lab common lunch:)

6/2025: Welcome, Zara Zhao, Matthew Yang, Hailey Wang and Joy Dong! talented high school students joining our lab for this summer.

5/2025: Welcome Laasya Ravipati! A summer intern from the Nathan Schnaper Intern Program in Translational Cancer Research (NSIP).

5/2025: Welcome Eilley Barron, our new rotation student!

4/2025: Dr. Liang was invited to organize the In Vivo Imaging session at ASNTR 2025 and presented his work.

4/2025: A warm welcome to Dr. Honglin Tan! She is starting today officially as a postdoc fellow!

1/2025: Dr. Jinghui Wang and Yajie Liang went to SIGN 2025 and gave talks on our exciting work!

12/2024: Welcome Ben! Our first PhD rotation student:)

11/2024: Congrats to Sean Yu, our lab alumni, who got admitted by Yale University!

07/2024: Concluding seminar. Proud of you guys!

05/2024: Welcome our summer interns: Anjika, Olek and Shylah!

05/2024: Members of our whole PIGN program;)

05/2024: A fruitful day for our lab members: Jinghui and Neha at the Maryland Stem Cell Symposium. Great job presenting your work to our research community!

05/2024: Phenomenal job from Miki for the presentation of his Capstone project! Mechanical Engineering Senior Capstone Day Spring 2024 - YouTube

05/2024: Great news for the lab: Jinghui got the Postdoctoral fellowship from Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund ! Yajie Liang also got the award through Discovery program from MSCRF! Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission Announces $15.4 Million in Awards to Accelerate Cures | MSCRF

04/2024: Congrats to Lab Alumni Ethan Bai for accepting the offer from the Johns Hopkins University for undergrad study! A brand new journey ahead!

04/2024: Congrats to Miki for his admission to the PhD program at Johns Hopkins University! Proud of you!

03/2023: Yajie Liang was invited to give a talk at the Stem Cell Club of Regenerative Medicine Institute at University of Pennsylvania. Many thanks to Professor Guo-li Ming for the invitation!

01/2024: Fantastic job done by our lab members: Miki, Colleen and Jinghui at SIGN conference in India! Congrats for the awards!

08/2023: Concluding seminar for summer interns: Ethan Bai, Sean Yu and Nehan Chandra, proud of your achievements!

6/2023: Summer interns joined the lab. Welcome Miki, Colleen, Sean, Ethan and Neha!

5/2023: Dr. Jinghui Wang joined the lab. Welcome Jinghui!

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