Category: News
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Jon Gilvey’s MS Defense and Commencement
Jon successfully defended his MS Thesis entitled “Effects of thrombin on the growth of pancreatic cancer cells and cancer associated fibroblasts using a microfluidic model.” He will continue his PhD study at Purdue.
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Anuhya received Award at SURF Symposium
Anu received an Outstanding Researcher Award at 2020 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium. She has performed a computational research and presented her poster as below. Research Title: Effects of Cell-Cell Contact During Multicellular Migration Graduate Mentor: Hye-Ran Moon PI: Dr. Bumsoo Han Department: School of Mechanical Engineering
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Hye-ran Moon’s PhD Defense
Hye-ran successfully defended her Ph.D. defense via WebEx. She will stay at the group as a Postdoc. DIRECTED CELL MIGRATION INDUCED BY MULTIPLE CUES IN THE ENGINEERED MICROENVIRONMENT ABSTRACT Directed cancer cell migration induced by the environmental signals is a critical process in cancer metastasis. Cancer cells are exposed to complex chemical and mechanical signals…
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Ann Steele’s Thesis Defense
Ann successfully finished her thesis defense through online final exam. Her thesis title is “Finite Element Mechanics Analysis of Growth and Invasion of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.” She will start her new research fellow position at GE Research Laboratory.
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SB3C 2020 is postponed to 2021.
Due to COVID-19, SB3C meeting is postponed to 2021. I found this at SB3C website. Yingnan, Hye-ran and Cih were at SB3C 2018.
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Group Photo of 2020 Spring
We were holding our group meeting online during 2020 Spring COVID-19 outbreak.
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High throughput histology of spheroids and organoids
Please note Purdue news release regarding our new platform to transfer spheroids & organoids from multi-well plates to a single histology cassette. This idea was initially developed by a contract from NCI and is recently funded by the Purdue Research Foundation for commercialization. We are developing this new collapsable basket array using 3D printing and…
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Our Alumnus, Dr. Ozcelikkale, received his first research grant.
Dr. Ozcelikkale, who starts his faculty appointment at METU Mechanical Engineering, receives a prestigious grant from TUBITAK (Turkish NSF) to establish his lab and begin a project on cancer immunotherapy modeling on a microfluidic platform. It is called TUBITAK 2232: International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers. This is currently the biggest grant given to an individual researcher…
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A News Release Featuring the Pancreatic Cancer Model
Our recent paper regarding PDAC tumor models are featured in multiple news media including Purdue Today. Note here for more details.
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Quantitative Measurement of Pain
Note this news release. An US patent is filed based on Yingnan’s research to quantitatively measure pain induced by subcutaneous injection of biologics drug.