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Undergraduate lab alumni Steve Xu was awarded the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship For New Americans, which supports the graduate educations of naturalized citizens and permanent residents. Congratulations Steve on winning such a prestigious award and making your lab and

Congratulations to lab member Brandi Scully for winning the best poster award (and $500) at the Baylor College of Medicine James K. Alexander Research Symposium.  WAY TO GO!!

Yesterday afternoon, Chris Durst became Dr. Chris Durst, PhD in Bioengineering. Congratulations on the deserved degree, and thank you for helping to making the lab what it is today. Please share your future billions with the rest of us.

Congratulations to graduate student Chris Durst, who just had his paper “Flexural Characterization of Cell Encapsulated PEGDA Hydrogels with Applications for Tissue Engineered Heart Valves” accepted for publication in Acta Biomaterialia.  Way to go!

Huzzah!  Congrats to Hubert, Libby, and Nikhil. Hubert’s paper, “Elastic fibers in the aortic valve spongiosa: a fresh perspective on their structure and role in overall tissue function,” has been accepted to Acta Biomaterialia. Libby’s paper, “Insight into pathologic abnormalities

Nikhil defended his dissertation today.  Look out world!

Welcome to Ayodeji (Ayo) Jejelowo, who is joining the lab as an NIH-funded Post-Masters Research Assistant.  Ayo originally earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins (he is the 3rd JHU alum to join the lab) and just got

Happy birthday to the best advisor, professor, friend, and boss in the whole wide world! Jane with her cupcake from Crave Cupcakes

Jane was elected to the College of Fellows for the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).