Applications for our 2024-2025 GEMINI Fellowship awards are now OPEN and close on June 14, 2024. The award will support a pre-doctoral or post-doctoral researcher working at the interfaces of engineering and health sciences.

Apply here: iem.slideroom.com/#/permalink/pr…

It’s a great day for our UC San Diego chemical and nano engineers! Thanks to a $21M gift from CorDx founder Aiiso Yufeng Li and his wife, Dongdong Li, NANO UC San Diego will be renamed the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering today.ucsd.edu/story/21-milli…

Big milestone today… Promoted to Full Professor! 😎

Many, many thanks to my lab/mentees, who have done a ton of heavy lifting over the past ~9 years to get us here! Special thanks also to mentors, collaborators, (especially) advocates, family, friends, etc, for their support!

New manuscript! Excited to contribute to the 'Hydrogels in the Clinic' series in BioTM_Buzz with Samir Mitragotri, John Clegg, and Zongmin Zhao. We hope that consolidating this information will advance the clinical translation of new technologies. aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Learned so much about the capabilities of SBF-SEM from Antentor Othrell Hinton, Jr PhD (A.J. Hinton)! Such a fun a visit and truly an honor to host you for a seminar visit at UCSD BioSciences♥️♥️♥️ The leaders in this picture gives me so much hope. JoAnn Trejo - Unity, Decency, Science & Yes, Truth Lisa M. Jones Lab Elizabeth Villa Prof. Brian Aguado

Don't miss this awesome event!!

Next week I’ll be hosting my dear friend Antentor Othrell Hinton, Jr PhD (A.J. Hinton) for a seminar visit at UCSD BioSciences! Please stop by to hear Hinton Laboratory at Vanderbilt lab’s amazing research on the role of MICOS in mitochondrial integrity!

Feeling so lucky to have celebrated graduation yesterday with 3 of my fellow PhDs from the lab of the amazing Kristopher Kilian! Had the best of times being a part of LAB&ME at UNSW Science 💞🧪 Chantal Kopecky Sara Romanazzo Bram Soliman Yiling

Excited to share that Claudia Fischbach-Teschl Claudia Fischbach Fischbach Lab will be our next director of Cornell BME, effective July 1! More: bme.cornell.edu/news/fischbach…

Using hydrogels to model heart valve disease, Prof. Brian Aguado UC San Diego hopes to develop sex-specific combinations of drugs to treat or prevent the disease.

🎧 Stephanie DeMarco, PhD has more in a new DDN Dialogues episode!
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The BUMMP symposium showcased show stopping research from our amazing mentees. Shoutout to @neal_lab BUMMP students Rosa and Jacqueline for their amazing poster presentation and congrats Rosa for best poster award. This is IMPACT💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

🌟🔬Congratulations to these outstanding scientists! Stephanie Fraley , Daniela Valdez-Jasso, PhD , UCSD Engineering , UC San Diego Health
UC San Diego Researchers Honored as Prebys Research Heroes today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san-d…

We are excited to invite you to our Industry Interview Panel on May 14th at 2pm EST! Please register to hear from our speakers Jorge Barter, Melissa Mendoza-Seale, Franklin Mejia (Franklin Mejía), and Jorge Jimenez(@arcoiris_phd)!
Registration link: shorturl.at/tvKV1

We are expanding 🌟 Postdoc positions are available in my lab at UC San Diego UCSD Sanford Stem Cell Institute 🥳! If you are excited about stem cells, and would like to join a growing team- please contact me. Please RT 📣🙏🏽

Join us in congratulating Clemons Lab @Caltech, our Science Program Officer for DEI, on his election to the @americanacade bit.ly/3vZ7OLE

Alexa play California Love 💙🎵💛 UC San Diego Bioengineering can’t wait for the #BIC2024 UC-Wide Symposium, June 24-25, early 🐦 registration deadline May 1! Stay tuned for an unofficial beach bonfire to welcome our guests on June 23! 🔥 Timothy L. Downing Stephanie Fraley Christopher Hernandez Olabisi Lab

👇👇Great lineup for #BIC2024 👇👇

🔬🌟UC bioengineering scientists are pushing the boundaries of knowledge through groundbreaking research. What they are discovering? Find out! Register➡️ Innovations in Bioengineering for Precise Medicine: Unraveling Biological Variables, UC BIC 2024 2024bic.ucsd.edu/home

Honored to be named the ISEH Janet Rowley Award winner. Grateful to my amazing Robert Signer team, brilliant collaborators & generous mentors. Big congrats to this year's other awardees Columbia Stem Cell Initiative (CSCI) Majeti Lab Ross Levine Katherine King MDPhD - all remarkable scientists & mentors!

I’m so honored to receive this year’s U.S. National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman award, the highest honor in the USA 🇺🇸 to early-career scientists and engineers + $1M to advance my research. Thanks for the awesome cover story and feature photo Johns Hopkins Engineering!