Copyright 2016 Biomedical Microdevices Laboratory
2016
3.31.2016: BML goes to MRS Spring 2016:
- Harish & Daniel Nampe (Tsutsui Group, UCR ME) present their work on ultrahigh throughput mechanoporation.
- Duncan, Yibo Jiang (Christopher Group, UCR CEE), Vinh, & Kenny present their work on nanoporous titania growth.
- Bryan, Xiolong Ma (Zhu Group, NCSU MSE), & Duncan present their work on nanocrystalline Ti stents.

1.13.2016: Prashant Ghaiy (UCR ME Undergrad) joins the BML.

2015
12.09.2015: Samantha Corber (BS PHYS & CHEM, Washburn Univ) joins the BML.

12.1.2015: Omid accepts job as Process Development Engineer at CBRITE.

10.17.2015: Prof. Rao invited to give talk at City of Hope - UC Riverside Biomedical Research Initiative Workshop.

10.1.2015: Cesar selected for HSI Undergraduate Research Award for Fall 2015 quarter.

9.24.2015: Kenneth Ply (UCR ME Undergrad) joins the BML.

8.25.2015: Prof. Rao invited to give talk at T Cell Therapeutics Research Laboratory, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope.

8.24.2015: Congrats to Duncan for passing his masters defense!

9.13.2015: Omid's paper entitled "Fenestrated titanium microneedles for ocular drug delivery" published in Sensors and Actuators B.

9.1.2015: Profs. L Mangolini (ME), G Aguilar (ME), E Franco (ME), S Skumar (ME), SM Mathaudhu (ME), and Rao awarded DoEd grant entitled “GAANN Fellowships in Mechanical Engineering."

7.28.2015: Chris Chapman (Seker Group, UCD BME) and Shannon's paper entitled "Substrate Topography Guides Pore Morphology Evolution in Nanoporous Gold Thin Films" published in Scripta Materialia.

7.10.2015: Thuy Luu (Liu Group, UCI BME) and Shannon's abstract on macrophage response to nanopatterned Ti accepted for poster at BMES 2015.

6.10.2015: Shannon's paper entitled “Vascular stents with submicrometer-scale surface patterning realized via titanium deep reactive ion etching" published in Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.

5.28.2015
: Congrats to Ryan for passing his masters defense!

5.14.2015: Profs. SM Mathaudhu (ME), Rao, H Liu (BIEN), G Aguilar (ME), D Kisailus (CEE), and Y Kodera (ME) awarded UCR Collaborative Seed Grant entitled “Synthesis and processing of revolutionary nanostructured biomaterials”.

5.11.2015: Mathieu Desquesnes (Masters candidate, Nuclear Engineering, ENSICAEN, France) joins BML for Summer.

5.7.2015: Harish wins Outstanding Teaching Assistant award from Department of Bioengineering!

4.30.2015: Profs. Rao and H Tsutsui (ME) awarded UCR Collaborative Seed Grant entitled “Ultrahigh throughput mechanoporation proof-of-concept study for adoptive cell transfer cancer immunotherapy”.

4.15.2015: Thuy Luu (Liu Group, UCI BME) and Shannon's abstract on macrophage response to nanopatterned Ti accepted for poster at SFB 2015.

4.14.2015: Cesar Patino (UCR ME Undergrad) and Vinh Nguyen (UCR BIEN Undergrad) join the BML.

1.7.2015: Chris Chapman (Seker Group, UCD BME) and Shannon's abstract on topography effects on nanoporous gold morphology accepted for poster at MRS Spring 2015.

2014
12.2.2014: Congrats to Omid for passing his doctoral defense!

10.2.2014: Shanthi & Shannon's paper entitled “Comparative Endothelial Cell Response on Topographically Patterned Titanium and Silicon Substrates with Micrometer to Sub-Micrometer Feature Sizes" published in PLOS ONE.

9.8.2014: Cara's paper entitled “Modular reservoir concept for MEMS-based transdermal drug delivery systems" published in Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.

8.28.2014: Congrats to Shannon for passing her doctoral defense!

8.26.2014: Omid's paper entitled “Wafer-scale titanium anodic bonding for microfluidic applications" published in Sensors and Actuators B.

6.23.2014: Vik Haz (UCR BIEN Undergrad) joins the BML.

6.21.2014: Gerardo Hernandez-Linan (Bachelors candidate, Mechatronics, UNAM, Mexico), joins the BML for Summer.

6.18.2014: BML goes to 15th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium:
- Prashanthi & Shannon present their work on endothelial response to nanopatterned Ti.
- Thuy Luu (Liu Group, UCI BME) and Shannon present their work on macrophage response to nanopatterned Ti.
- Shannon presents her work on nanopatterned stents.
Best Poster Award
- Harish & Daniel Nampe (Tsutsui Group, UCR ME) present their work on ultrahigh throughput mechanoporation.
- Ryan & Shannon present their work on flow diverter devices.
- Omid & Alex present their work on Ti anodic bonding.

6.16.2014: Congrats to BML members walking in Commencement: Omid (PhD), Shannon (PhD), & Justin (MS).

5.29.2014: Harish wins Best Poster Award at UCR ME GSA Symposium for his work on ultrahigh throughput mechanoporation.

5.5.2012: Pierre Genot (Masters candidate, Electronics & Applied Physics, ENSICAEN, France) joins BML for Summer.

4.23.2014: Yasaman Damestani's (Aguilar Group, UCR ME) paper entitled “Optical clearing agent perfusion enhancement via combination of microneedle poration, heating, and pneumatic pressure" published in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine.

4.7.2014:
Hiral Shah (UCR BIEN Undergrad) joins the BML.

4.1.2014: Prof. Rao awarded patent entitled “Monocyclic high aspect ratio titanium inductively coupled plasma deep etching process and products so produced” (U.S. Patent No. 8,685,266).

2.2.2014: BML goes to ASME NEMB 2014:
- Harish and Daniel (Tsutsui Group, UCR ME) present their work on ultrahigh throughput mechanoporation.
- Shanthi, Shannon, & Ryan present their work on endothelial cell signaling on sub-micrometer patterned Ti.
- Shanthi, Shannon, & Ryan present their work on endothelial cell response to sub-micrometer patterned Ti.
- Shannon, Ryan, & Shanthi present their work on surface patterned stents.
- Omid & Amin Famili (Kahook Group, CU School of Medicine) present their work on fenestrated Ti microneedles.
- Omid presents his work on Ti anodic bonding.
Audience Choice Poster Award Link
- Prof. Rao serves as Session Co-Chair for Track 5 Manufacturing and Materials for Nanomedicine, Biology, & Nanoengineering, Session 5-2.

1.30.2014: Erandi Rivera (Autonomous Univ. of Baja California, Mexico PhD Student) joins BML for research internship.

1.13.2014: Matt Lai (UCR BIEN Undergrad) joins the BML.
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