News & Events

Sharon Glotzer is being inducted in the 2019 Class of the National Academy of Engineering

Rackham International Student Fellowships recognize outstanding international students.

Evan Keller and collaborators from the Department of Urology publish a new article on a surgical grafting technique, for direct implantation of human cancer cells into the bladder lumen.

The article titled “A Surgical Orthotopic Approach to Study the Invasive Progression of Human Bladder Cancer” appears in Nature Protocol.

Dr. Giannobile is being recognized for his achievements in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.

A new publication from Steve Schwendeman and his collaborators from Georgia Tech appears in Nature Biomedical Engineering and features micro-needle patches for long-acting contraceptive delivery.

Latest research findings from the Kotov lab on new structural batteries that are inspired by cartilage.

Recent Publications from BI Research Groups

Crain’s Detroit features Evoq Therapeutics, a startup company co-founded by James Moon and Anna Schwendeman.

Maria Fawaz and Minzhi Yu, both graduate students in Anna Schwendeman’s group, have been awarded predoctoral fellowships from the American Heart Association.

An article from the Lahann lab was recently published in Science. The article is entitled “Templated nanofiber synthesis via chemical vapor polymerization into liquid crystalline films” and reports on nanofiber arrays that can lead to various functional coatings.

Ron Larson is honored with the 2019 Polymer Physics Prize from the American Physical Society.

Recent publications from BI Research Groups

Sharon Glotzer is the 2019 recipient of the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics. The award granted by the American Physical Society with support from IBM recognizes outstanding work and disseminating information in computational physics.

Sunitha Nagrath is the recipient of the 2018 Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award. The award honors the contributions of an individual who has demonstrated exceptional technical advancement and innovation in the field of microfluidics or nanofluidics in his or her early career.

The article entitled “Profiling Heterogeneous Circulating Tumor Cells (CTC) Populations in Pancreatic Cancer Using a Serial Microfluidic CTC Carpet Chip” appears in Advanced Biosystems.