I had the honor of delivering an oral presentation at the 2025 International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Annual Meeting, the largest global conference in the field. My talk, titled “Spatiotemporal Tunable Microenvironment for Next-Generation Organoids: Recapitulating Primitive Streak Formation to Notogenesis,” introduced a pioneering approach to modeling early human development through engineered stem cell systems.
In addition, I was awarded the ISSCR Zhongmei Chen Yong Award for Scientific Excellence.
While it wasn’t selected as one of the final three, I’m honored that our work on spatial cell fate control—achieved by tuning spatial stiffness using our hydrogel system—was recognized by a leading journal in developmental biology.https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.201621
Huge thanks to my amazing co-authors and collaborators. I’m grateful for your support throughout this project!
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/collection/17876/Outstanding-Paper-Prize-2024
Interviewed by ASHBI (Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology)
Interviewed by Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering
Received travel support for the Wnt Conference, and a report was published on JSDB