Antonio successfully defended his Master’s thesis. His work led to a new 3D model of human lung airways to allow studies of drug delivery in the lungs. Congratulations!
Ramila’s PhD proposal
Ramila successfully defended her PhD proposal and is now officially a PhD candidate. Congratulations!
Award to Stephanie
Stephanie won the 2017 Joseph L. Verstraete Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Congratulations!
Invited talk at MRS
Dr. Tavana gave an invited talk at the 2017 Materials Research Society spring meeting in Phoenix. His talk was on the design of aqueous two-phase systems for cell printing applications.
Paper and cover page in RSC journal
Ramila’s recent paper on self-regulatory effect of embryonic stem cells on neural differentiation is accepted for publication in Integrative Biology and was featured on the journal cover!
New grant to Dr. Tavana
Dr. Tavana was awarded a Faculty Research Committee Fellowship to identify novel natural compounds that inhibit migration of metastatic breast cancer cells.
Paper in SLAS Discovery
Pradip’s paper on the use of 3D cultures of cancer cells to evaluate the effectiveness of single-agent and combination drug screening is published in SLAS Discovery!
Former student became a professor
The first PhD graduate of the lab, Dr. Ehsan Atefi, is now Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Manhattan College, congratulations!
Travel awards to Stephanie and Pradip
Stephanie and Pradip both won Tony B. Academic Travel Awards to attend the 2017 SLAS meeting and present their research on modeling of drug resistance and tumor-stomal interactions using 3D […]
Presentation at NIH
Dr. Tavana presented at the principal investigators’ meeting at the NIH/NCI.