01.05.2011   Sravanti receiving the Peterson Award from BIOT, ACS for best student presentation in 2012!!! 04.01.2013   Quinton Smith receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Quinton Smith, 1st year graduate student in the Chemical and Biomolecular Department, receives a 3 years NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.     04.03.2013   Congratulations to Rohan who successfully defended his Master's thesis!     03.23.2012   Congratulations to our newest doctors, Donny and Laura, who successfully defended their PhD dissertations!     12.12.2011   Big congratulations to Sravanti for receiving the prestigious NRSA fellowship from NHLBI!     10.31.2011   Congratulations to Laura who has been chosen as a 2011 MRS Fall Meeting Graduate Student Award Finalist! Laura will present 2 talks in the upcoming MRS meeting and will receive either a Gold or Silver Award– good luck!!!     10.30.2011   Congratulations to Stephen Zhao for winning the 3rd place in the 2011 AIChE national student conference     09.20.2011   Donny has been named 2011 Siebel Scholar. Congratulations!!! [continued]     08.23.2011   Watch Sravanti in a short video on growing induced pluripotent stem cells. [continued]     07.25.2011   Check out the commentary by Geissler and Angele to Donny's recent publication in Blood. [read more]     06.24.2011   Congratulations to Sravanti for receiving pre-doctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association!     05.13.2011   Several of our students have been recognized for their excellent performances: Congratulations to Elizabeth Peijnenburg for being selected to receive the Fall 2011 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award Congratulations to Joanna Tsao and Frederick Kuo for wining ChemBE Research Awards and Siah-Hong for academic achievement     02.06.2011   Sharon Gerecht has been awarded an NSF CAREER Award to study the interplay of hypoxia and the extracellular matrix during vascular differentiation. [read more]/     01.05.2011   Two of our recent publications were featured on covers: Laura's recent work on patterning vascular networks which was published in Soft Matter. Laura and Sravanti Feature Article in Macromolecular Biosciences reviewing biomaterials to reconstruct embryonic stem cell niches.     01.05.2011   Two of our graduate students receive travel award: Erbil to attend the 4th International Tissue Engineering in Crete, Greece. Donny to attend the 2011 Experimental Biology Conference.     04.08.2010   Several of our junior students have been recognized for their excellent performances: Vivek Bose receives the ChemBE Undergraduate Research Award for his contribution to research in the field of ChemBE. Peter Li receives the the Special Service Award for his outstanding contributions to the Department of ChemBE. Siah Hong Tan receives the AiChe Award for Scholastic Achievement which recognize juniors with highest scholastic standing.     11.02.2009   Our lab is leading a project in the newly established NIH PS-OC center at Hopkins. This Engineering in Oncology Center will apply physical science approaches to advance research on cancer. For more information: [http://engineering.oncology.jhu.edu]/     05.26.2009   Guoming Sun receives Postdoctoral Fellowship from Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund. Guoming Sun receives Postdoctoral Fellowship from Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund. This grant is awarded to exceptional postdoctoral fellows who conduct basic and/or translational research on human stem cells in the State of Maryland.     04.21.2009   Laura Beasman receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Laura Beasman, 2nd year graduate student in the Chemical and Biomolecular Department, receives a 3 years NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.     03.21.2009   Several of our junior students have been recognized for their excellent performances: * Rachel Truitt receives the AiChe Award for Scholastic Achievement which recognize juniors with highest scholastic standing. * Matt Moura receives the ChemBE Undergraduate Research Award for his contribution to research in the field of ChemBE. * Michelle Ho receives the Fisher award, a new award for excelling academically and involvement in research related to cancer.     02.12.2009   Dr. Gerecht receives March of Dimes Foundation Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award. The March of Dimes Foundation's mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. The Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award is designed to support young scientists just embarking on their independent research careers and whose research interests are consonant with those of the Foundation.     07.12.2008   Dr. Gerecht receives American Heart Association Scientist Development Award. The American Heart Association National Scientist Development Grant supports highly promising beginning scientists in their progress toward independence by encouraging and adequately funding research projects that can bridge the gap between completion of research training and readines for successful competition as an independent investigator.   05.14.2008   Rachel Truitt receives Paul A. C. Cook Award from the ChemBE Department. This award is given to outstanding sophomores or juniors in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department who are best all-around students.   05.06.2008   Dr. Gerecht was awarded the 2008 Maryland Outstanding Young Engineer Award. The award is sponsored by the Maryland Academy of Sciences and conferred by the Maryland Science Center in the hopes of encouraging the important work of young scientists and engineers in the state of Maryland, and to increase public awareness of their accomplishments. Dr. Gerecht receives this award for her work in the science and engineering of stem cells. Prior recipients include Sol Snyder and Bill Phillips (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1997).