01.03.2012
We wish Scott Verbridge all the best for his new position as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Virginiatech.
01.03.2012
Congratulations! Youjin has received an undergraduate research award by the Engineering Learning Initiative.
11.04.2011
Maureen has been selected to receive a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship by the Hartwell Foundation. Congratulations!
10.05.2011
Two new PhD students - Peter DelNero and Frank He - have joined the lab. Welcome!
10.05.2011
Young Hye has received a MOGAM fellowship from South Korea and Kelsey has been awarded an undergraduate research fellowship by the Engineering Learning Initiative. Congratulations to both!
07.26.2011
Two new R21 grants funded by the NCI will support our projects 'Mineralized 3-D tumor models to study breast cancer bone metastasis' and 'Fibronectin and its role in tumor stiffness and vascularization'.
07.01.2011
David has received a two-year Research Fellowship from the American Brain Tumor Association!
03.22.2011
Siddharth's and Debra's (a PhD student in Lara Estroff's lab) joint paper on 'Hydroxyapatite nanoparticle-containing scaffolds for the study of breast cancer bone metastasis', has been accepted for publication in Biomaterials. Congratulations!
03.22.2011
Brian Kwee, an undergrad in the lab, has won the first prize at this year's Bioexpo poster competition.
01.19.2011
Emily's paper entitled "Stiffness of Photocrosslinked RGD-Alginate Gels Regulates Adipose Progenitor Cell Behavior" has been accepted by Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Congratulations!
12.14.2010
Emily's paper 'Adipose progenitor cells increase fibronectin matrix strain and unfolding in breast tumors' has been accepted for publication in Physical Biology. Congratulations!
12.14.2010
Congratulations to Bo Ri for having been awarded a prestigious MOGAM Scholarship from South Korea.
11.05.2010
Bo Ri's poster was awarded the 3rd prize at this year's Cornell Stem Cell Symposium. Congratulations!
10.18.2010
Congratulations to Maya for receiving an award by the NASA/New York Space Grant Consortium’s for Undergraduate Early Science & Engineering Research and Iriny for having been awarded an undergraduate research grant from the Engineering Learning Initiative.
09.14.2010
Two new PhD students, Young-Hye Song and Ryan Nolan, have joined the lab. Welcome!
05.27.2010
Brian and Jimmy, undergraduate researchers, have received awards for the summer. Brian received the Engineering Learning Initiatives grant and Jimmy received the New York State Stem Cell grant. Congratulations!
05.10.2010
Siddharth
has passed his A exam and is now officially a PhD candidate. Congratulations!
03.18.2010
Jimmy and Christine, undergraduates in the lab, have won second and third place at this year's BioExpo.
03.17.2010
Emily has been selected for a STAR award by the Society for Biomaterials for her work titled 'Tumor Microenvironmental Cues Signal Host Tissue Progenitor Cells to Promote Tumorigenesis' to be presented at the 2010 Annual SFB meeting in Seattle. Congratulations!
03.09.2010
Scott's and Emily's review article on 'Tissue-Engineered 3-D Tumor Models to Study Tumor Angiogenesis' has been accepted by Tissue Engineering.
03.09.2010
Scott's and Nakwon's article on 'Oxygen-controlled 3-D cultures to analyze tumor angiogenesis' has been accepted for publication in tissue engineering.
01.08.2010
Siddharth's paper 'A Novel 3-D Mineralized Tumor Model to Study Breast Cancer Bone Metastasis' has been accepted by PLoS ONE. Congratulations!
10.30.2009
Claudia will lead one of the projects of the recently funded NIH PS-OC center at Cornell. This center will apply physical science approaches to advance research on cancer. For more information: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/NCICenter.html
10.22.2009
David Infanger, a new postdoc, has joined the lab. Welcome David!
10.14.2009
Claudia will be the lead PI on a NIH RC-1 grant and will collaborate with Ithaca and Weill Cornell-based researchers on 'Microfluidic tumor models to analyze the role of physicochemical cues in the angiogenic switch'.
10.14.2009
Emily has received the 2nd price at the poster contest of the Cornell Annual Stem Cell Symposium.
05.06.2009
Ramya has been awarded a fellowship by the Engineering Learning Initiative for her proposed summer project on biomineralized culture systems to study bone metastasis. Congratulations Ramya!!!
04.10.2009
Siddharth, a 2nd year PhD student in the lab, has been awarded a predoctoral NSF fellowship for his work on engineered bone metastasis models. Congrats to Sid!
04.10.2009
Ramya, an undergraduate researcher in the lab, has been featured in the Cornell Engineering Magazine.
03.18.2009
Christine has been awarded the best poster award at this year's Bioexpo. Caroline, Dan, and Siddharth have been co-authors on the poster. Congratulations to all!