Members of the Lipke Lab, including Dr. Lipke, Nicole, Mohammad, and Justin, presented two posters, one rapid fire, and three oral platform presentations at the 2022 SFB Annual Meeting. Mohammad was awarded both a STAR award and an honorable mention and Justin was awarded the Tissue Engineering SIG poster competition award. Congratulations to all! We were very excited for the opportunity to share our work with the biomaterials community.
Category: Awards
Peter is Named a Goldwater Scholar
We want to wish a huge congratulations to our undergraduate researcher, Peter Abraham, who was named a Barry M. Goldwater scholar. Throughout the past several years, Peter has made numerous outstanding contributions to our cancer research projects and is highly deserving of this prestigious award! For more info on Peter’s research and the Goldwater award, check out this news release. This semester, Peter also had his research published in PLOS One, won 1st place at the AIChE Regional Conference Technical Presentation competition, and was elected to serve as the Auburn AIChE Internal Vice President. Congratulations on all of your accomplishments, Peter! We are so proud of you!
Ravi wins at AIChE Regional Conference
Congratulations to Lipke Lab undergraduate researcher Ravi Nataraj for winning 2nd place at the AIChE Regional Conference Poster Competition for his work, “Adaptation of a Microfluidic System for Use in High-Throughput Drug Screening”. Ravi was also recently elected to co-lead the BMES Design Team and will work towards developing a cost-effective, adjustable foot and ankle prothesis specifically targeted to female populations. This design will enable a multitude of shoe options ranging from tennis shoes to high heels! Keep up the awesome work, Ravi!
Mohammadjafar Awarded AHA Predoctoral Fellowship
We are ecstatic to announce that Lipke Lab graduate researcher, Mohammadjafar Hashemi, was awarded a 2-year American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship for his research studying the link between cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Since being awarded the fellowship, Mohammadjafar had the opportunity to be a guest on the Auburn Engineers #GINNing Podcast. Click here to listen to him discuss his research and his plans for the future. Congratulations, Mohammadjafar!
Lipke Lab wins at the 2021 Graduate Engineering Research Showcase
The Lipke Lab had a strong showing at the 2021 Graduate Engineering Research Showcase. Mayra and Mohammad each received honorable mentions for their poster presentations, putting their work in the top 8 out of 140 Presenters.
Peter wins at annual Boshell Research Day
Lipke Lab undergraduate researcher, Peter Abraham, was awarded second place for his oral presentation, “Transcriptomic analysis to uncover the differential effects of obesity on the consensus molecular subtypes of colorectal cancer” at the 2021 Boshell Research Day!
Grace wins at the Annual Boshell Research Day
Lipke Lab undergraduate researcher, Grace Hester, presented her poster entitled “in vitro 3D Engineered CRC Tissue Model to Mimic Non-obese and Obese Microenvironments” at the 2021 Boshell Research Day. Grace won 4th place out of 36 graduate and undergraduate presentations!
Bryana awarded NSF GRFP!
We want to send a huge congratulations to former Lipke Lab undergraduate researcher, Bryana Harris, for being named a 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellow! Bryana is currently a PhD student in biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia, working under the advisement of Dr. Saucerman. Congrats Bryana! We are so proud of you!
Joshita named an execeptional graduate by the AU honors college!
We are so proud of senior undergraduate researcher, Joshita Suresh, for her exceptional contributions to our lab throughout the past four years! Joshita was named an exceptional graduate by the Auburn University Honors College due to her academic excellence and phenomenal undergraduate honors thesis submission entitled, “Development of in vitro prostate cancer culture to recapitulate the native tumor microenvironment”. Congratulations Joshita, we wish you the best of luck as you pursue your graduate studies at the University of Colorado Boulder this fall!
Dr. Lipke awarded Senior Auburn Alumni Engineering Research Award for Excellence!
We are so excited to share that Dr. Lipke was awarded the Senior Auburn Alumni Engineering Research Award for Excellence! This prestigious award recognizes excellence in engineering research at Auburn University and is a testament to Dr. Lipke’s leadership and the Lipke Lab’s research efforts as a whole.