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.
Current and former members of the Lipke Lab had a wonderful time attending the 2018 BMES Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
To see more content from BMES 2018, check out our Instagram.
We are so proud of Ferdous for planning and executing the Auburn Engineering GRAND Showcase which served to teach 4th – 8th grade students about the Grand Challenges for Engineering!
Morgan and Yuan volunteered and demonstrated to 4th – 8th grade students how we can employ hydrogels to engineer better medicines!
Thank Nicole for volunteering to photograph during this event.
Congratulations to Lipke Lab member Ferdous for being awarded the 100+ Women Strong Graduate Leadership award! Check out our Instagram.