Year: 2019

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.

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.