Dr. Tavana and his collaborator at Vanderbilt University were awarded a research grant to study clinical cancer treatment regimens in engineered tumor models.
New Diversity Grant
Dr. Tavana was awarded a new grant from NIH to support Justin Putman’s research in our lab toward the NCI’s goal of increasing diversity in cancer research.
PhD Defense
Pradip successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Shahi Thakuri! Using a 3D tumor model, he showed that cancer cells develop adaptive resistance to drugs by activation of feedback signaling […]
Summer Camp
We hosted Akron Public School students in a two-week summer camp, thanks to funding from NSF to make it possible to offer the opportunity to these talented young women!
Conference presentations
Sunil and Dr. Tavana gave a poster and a podium presentation at the 2019 Midwest Tumor Microenvironment Conference in University of Notre Dame.
More awards to Maddie and Pradip!
Maddie and Pradip won best poster presentation awards for undergraduate research and graduate research at the 2019 University of Akron Interdisciplinary Symposium. Congratulations on back-to-back achievements!
Awards to Maddie and Pradip
Part of the highly competitive LIFE Awards at the University of Akron, Maddie won this year’s Top 10 Senior Award and Pradip won the Doctoral Scholar Award. Well-deserved and congratulations!
Paper on cancer drug resistance
Pradip’s paper on morphological quantification of cancer drug resistance in tumor spheroid cultures is published in Assay and Drug Development Technologies!
Pradip’s candidacy exam
Pradip successfully passed his PhD candidacy. His project explores mechanisms of drug resistance of colon cancer cells in 3D cultures and novel treatment modalities to overcome drug resistance.
Paper on modeling lung airways
Antonio’s paper to create 3D computational and physical models of tracheobronchial tree is published in Annals of Biomedical Engineering!