News

March 2025: Diego and Rachel's publication on transcorneal electrical stimulation is in press: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014483525000971.

December 2024: Diego Gomez-Maldonado celebrated his move to a tenure track position at Texas Tech. Congratulations Diego, we'll miss you!

March 2024: Narges Yazdani successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Narges Yazdani!

November 2023: Diego Gomez-Maldonado presented his work on "Polyethylene Glycol Microgel-Based Hydrogels for Neural Stem Cell Growth" at the annual AIChE conference. https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/667564

September 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Diego Gomez-Maldonado who received an outstanding research award from the ChE Research Showcase for his poster presentation!

August 2023: Diego Gomez-Maldonado presented his work on "Property tuning of PEG microgel-based hydrogels for neural tissue" at the annual fall ACS meeting. https://scimeetings.acs.org/exhibit/Property-tunning-PEG-microgel-based/3922771

August 2023: Congratulations to Dr. McKay Cavanaugh, who successfully defended her dissertation and graduated!

April 2023: Yang Hu presented his talk on "TGF-β1 and PCL Nanofibers to Enhance Schwann Cell Migration" at the Annual Society for Biomaterials conference in San Diego. Excellent work! https://2023.biomaterials.org/sites/default/files/abstracts/404.pdf

August 2022: We said farewell to Future Faculty Fellow Mac Clay as he moves back to the west coast to pursue his faculty career. We wish you the best Mac!

Summer 2022: Congratulations to Alan Zhang, COE'24 for his PEAK Trail-Blazer Award project entitled “Effects of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor on Schwann Cell Migration”!

July 2022: Caterina Bartomeu Garcia successfully defended her dissertation and graduated. Congratulations Dr. Cati Bartomeu Garcia!

May 2022: Ada Vernet Crua successfully defended her dissertation and graduated. Congratulations Dr. Ada Vernet Crua!

April 2022: Narges Yazdani's abstract was nominated as an outstanding contribution to the Society For Biomaterials’ 2022 Annual Meeting being held in Baltimore, Maryland, April 27-30, 2022. The Special Interest Group Chairs of the Society has awarded her with an Honorable Mention. Congratulations Narges!

October 2021: Alan Zhang, COE’24, was awarded a PEAK Base Camp award for his project entitled “The Effect of TGF-ß on Schwann Cell Migration in Early Stages of Nerve Regeneration.” Congratulations Alan!

October 2021: Jenise Martinez, COS’22, was awarded a PEAK Summit Award for her project entitled “Can p75NTR Expression Be Regulated via Electrical Stimulation?” Congratulations Jenise!

April 2021: Diana Philip successfully defended her dissertation and graduated. Congratulations Dr. Diana Philip! 

April 2021: Congratulations to Ada Vernet Crua for receiving the Engineering and Technology, Graduate Award at RISE 2021!

March 2021: Diana Philip has been selected to receive the Life Award for Graduate Excellence and Leadership at The University of Akron. Congratulations Diana!

December 2020: Yang Hu has officially joined our group. He has significant experience in polymer modification and characterization and is interested in learning more about biomedical techniques. Welcome!

October 2020: McKay Cavanaugh has been awarded the Alsaif Doctoral Fellowship! Congratulations McKay.

September 2020: Congratulations to Diana Philip and McKay Cavanaugh for receiving NSF conference awards to attend the 4th International Conference on Epigenetics and Bioengineering (EpiBio)!

July 2020: We've moved! We are excited to announce that we are moving to Northeastern Chemical Engineering.

October 2019: Congratulations to Diana Philip for receiving a travel award to attend BMES.

May 2019: Congratulations to Diana Philip, McKay Cavanaugh, and Sean Sullivan for receiving travel awards to attend SB3C.

April 2019: Congratulations to alumna Hannah Cebull for receiving an honorable mention in NSF GRFP!

April 2019: Congratulations to alumna Carli DeJulius for receiving an NSF GRFP!

January 2019: Congratulations to McKay Cavanaugh for receiving the Njus Scholarship.

August 2018: Congratulations to Eli Malekzadeh for successfully defending her MS thesis.

June 2018: Congratulations to Wafaa Nasir for successfully defending her MS thesis. 

May 2018: Congratulations to Galina Pylypiv for successfully completing her MS degree. 

May 2018: Congratulations to Carli DeJulius for being selected to present the commencement address. 

October 2017: Congratulations to Laney Casella for placing 2nd in the SWE Rapid Fire poster competition. 

October 2017: Congratulations to Carli DeJulius for first place in NXP Foundations Women's STEM Student Acheivement Awards and receiving the Barbara Grosz STEM Student Achievement Award. 

Aug 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Stukel for receiving her PhD!

July 2017: Congratulations to Carli DeJulius for presenting at the Global Grand Challenges Summit in Washington D.C.

June 2017: Congratulations to Carli Dejulius for competing in the SB3C undergraduate competition!

Aug 2016: Congratulations to Jessica Stukel for receiving a BMES Travel Award!

Oct 2015: Congratulations to Carli Dejulius and Jessica Stukel for being selected to receive Bionformatics Scholarships!

Aug 2015: Congratulations to Carli Dejulius for receiving a BMES Travel Award!

Aug 2015: Congratulations to Wenda Zhou for completing his PhD!

May 2015: Congratulations to Jessica Stukel for receiving the Glen O. Njus Graduate Scholarship!

May 2015: Congratulations to Jessica Stukel for receiving Dean's Summer Fellowship!

Apr 2015: Congratulations to Sarah Snyder for receiving an Honorable Mention on her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Application and in the top 28% of the 14,000 applications!

Apr 2014: Sarah Snyder received the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award from UASIS. Congratulations Sarah!

Mar 2015: Congratulations to Jane Bozsik for her awards and good luck moving on to States!

• NEOSEF: NEOSEF Award 11-12th grade biology 2nd place

• U of A District Science Fair-  1st place in Biochemistry

Apr 2014: Congratulations to Jessica Stukel for receiving an Honorable Mention on her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Application and in the top 28% of the 14,000 applications!

Mar 2014: Congratulations to Jane Bozsik for her awards and good luck moving on to States!

• NEOSEF: NEOSEF Award 11-12th grade biology 3rd place 

• NEOSEF: Cleveland clinic department of Neurosciences special award, Society for In Vitro Biology

• U of A District Science Fair-  2nd place in Biochemistry

• ABIA Best Medicine- Cartooning award for health and wellness

Jan 2014: Congratulations to Dimitria Kontoveros for receiving the Glen O. Njus Graduate Scholarship!

Apr 2013: Congratulations to Kartik Sastry for a superior rating at his recent science fair and First place in his division at NEOSEF!