Dr. Banerjee received the National Science Foundation EAGER grant (2015-2017) titled "Biomanufacturing: Engineered hydrogel capsules for controlled scalable cultures of pluripotent stem cells". News Release and Grant Details
Lab undergrads, Sarah Casne and Julie Hartz win the best poster award given by the Pitt Innovation Institute at Science 2015 conference. The poster was titled: "The Ugly Side of Nano: Toward Understanding Nanoparticle Toxicity". They were mentored by grad students, Thomas Richardson and Sharlee Mahoney. Congratulations to the team!
May 2015
Saik-Kia Goh has been selected as a finalist for the 2015 NIH Director's Early Independence Award (EIA/DP5). He will attend an in-person interview by the EIA/DP5 Editorial Review Board – a panel of distinguished scientific leaders charged with identifying and evaluating the next generation of highly promising and successful biomedical and bio-behavioral scientists. Congratulations Kia and all the best! More details of the DP5 award can be found here.
Dr. Joe Candiello received NSF travel award to present his work at Regenerative Medicine Workshop at Hilton Head, May 13-16, 2015. He will be presenting a poster (in combination with a poster spotlight) on his work titled "Substrate mediated controlled generation of multicellular islet organoids from hPSC derived pancreatic progenitor cells". Congratulations Joe!!
OXE ChemE Department Research Day: Thomas Richardson won the best oral presentation award for his talk entitled "The effect of alginate capsule composition on pancreatic differentiation of human embryonic stem cells". Congratulations Tommy!
McGowan Institute Annual Retreat: Shibin Mathew secured first place in the poster competition at MIRM in the category of "Computation and Modeling" for his "TGF-beta signaling during endoderm differentiation" work. Congratulations Shibin!
Apply for Graduate student or Post-doctoral Research Position !
We have opening for multiple PhD and Post-doctoral positions. Background in Chemical Engineering or Bioengineering will be preferred. Research topics include (but not limited to):
High throughput analysis of differentiating stem cells
Quantitative analysis of stochastic differentiation process
Systems theory of signaling pathways
Optimization based algorithm development for network analysis
