Congratulations to Nicole for winning the Master’s Thesis Award in the Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering category which is given to the top theses defended at Auburn from 2016-2018! Nicole was also named as an Outstanding Master’s Student campus wide for 2018.
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!
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!
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.
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.
Congratulations to Lipke Lab member Ferdous for being awarded the 100+ Women Strong Graduate Leadership award! Check out our Instagram.
Congratulations to Lipke Lab members Morgan and Yuan for their wins at the Alabama NSF EPSCoR Science and Technology Open House poster competition! Check out our Instagram.
Congratulations to Lipke Lab member Iman for winning the Auburn SHOWCASE Creative Scholarship Exhibition with his submission “Elucidation of the Adipocytic Microenvironment”. For more information.