Nicole and Dr. Lipke’s new collaborative review article, “Microphysiological Systems as Enabling Tools for Modeling Complexity in the Tumor Microenvironment and Accelerating Cancer Drug Development”, was recently published in Advanced Functional Materials! This article discusses tumor heterogeneity and complexity, and reviews recent advancements in engineered tumor microenvironments for application in cancer progression research and novel drug discovery.
Congratulations to Lipke Lab undergraduates Gabi and Luke for winning 1st and 2nd place overall in the STEM category for their oral presentations at the university-wide Auburn Student Research Symposium! We are so proud of both of them for their dedication to their research and phenomenal presentations!
Lipke Lab undergraduate researchers Gabi, Michaela, Joshita, Emma, Bryana, and Luke, as well as graduate researcher Iman, presented their work at the Auburn Student Research Symposium. We are so proud of their hard work and dedication to the Lipke Lab!
Congratulations to Iman Hassani for receiving the Society for Biomaterials STAR Award, which recognizes research excellence, outstanding contribution to the meeting, and develops future leaders within SFB! Iman was very excited to have the opportunity to travel to Seattle for the first time, present our lab’s cancer tissue engineering work, and to network with other SFB members throughout the meeting. Morgan Ellis also received an Honorable Mention for the STAR Award!
Lipke Lab graduate students Iman, Yuan, Morgan, and Nicole were all awarded talks at the 2019 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting, and Benny and Ferdous were awarded poster presentations! Iman and Yuan traveled to Seattle, WA and gave all 6 presentations between the two of them. We are so proud of them for representing the Lipke Lab and Auburn so well!
Congratulations to Dr. Lipke and PhD Candidate, Yuan Tian, for receiving the LAUNCH Innovation Grant! Their proposal, “Flexible microfluidic platform for rapid production of uniform cell-laden hydrogel microtissues,” was funded to commercialize our tissue microsphere encapsulation system. From Dr. Lipke, “We are very excited to receive this award. Our system for producing tissue microspheres has the potential to advance a wide range of fields, including drug discovery, therapeutic cell production, bioprinting and veterinary and human regenerative medicine. This funding will enable us to take important steps in bringing this technology from the lab to industries that can use it.”. For more information, please read the Auburn Engineering news article.
Lipke Lab researchers Nicole and Benny attended and presented at the American Association of Cancer Researchers annual meeting! It was a wonderful opportunity to network with the best minds in cancer research and medicine from around the world.
Congratulations to Lipke Lab graduate members, Nicole and Iman, on the renewal of their AURIC Fellowships! Nicole’s work is entitled “Three-dimensional engineered tumor models for in vitro recapitulation of the native tumor microenvironment” and Iman’s work is entitled “Investigation of obesity-induced colorectal cancer risk in three-dimensional tissue engineered models of patient-derived xenograft tumors”.
We are so excited to congratulate former Lipke Lab member, Dr. Shantanu Pradhan, on receiving the Auburn University Distinguished Dissertation award for his work “Three-dimensional Tissue-engineered Cancer Models for Tumorigenic Studies and Drug-testing Applications”! As this university-wide honor is only awarded once every two years, Shantanu was selected from a very large pool of Auburn doctoral graduates and we couldn’t be more proud of him! Congratulations, Dr. Pradhan! We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
We are so proud of our three Lipke Lab graduate researchers, Ferdous, Iman, and Yuan, who presented and received awards at the 2018 Auburn Graduate Engineering Research Showcase! Ferdous and Yuan each received Honorable Mention Awards, and Iman received the Best of Chemical Engineering Award.
