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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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