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!
Invited talk
Dr. Tavana gave an invited presentation on cancer drug resistance to the Franklin Club of Akron.
US patent issued
Our automated cell and bioprinter technology was recognized with a US patent (10,119,107)! Dr. Tavana and former student David Petrak are the co-inventors.
New paper on cancer drug resistance
Pradip’s paper on modeling how cancer cells develop resistance to kinase molecular inhibitors is published in Translational Oncology!
New undergraduate researchers
Welcome to Sydnie Tran and Justin Putman who joined the lab as undergraduate research assistants!