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- Matt Arkenberg. "Enzymatic peptide ligation for in situ encapsulation and delivery of pancreatic islets" Thu. April 12. 2:45pm (Room 210/211)
- Han Nguyen. "Riboflavin as a visible light photoinitiator for dynamic stiffening of cell-laden hydrogels" Thu. April 12. 5:30pm (Room 208/209)
- Dustin Moore. "Reversibly stiffened hydrogels via enzyme-mediated peptide ligation" Fri. April 13. 2pm (Room 204/205)
- Britney Hudson. "Hypoxia-Inducible Hydrogels via Enzyme-Immobilization" Fri. April 13. 3:15pm (Room 204/205)
- Hung-Yi Liu. "Desmoplasia-mimetic gels with modular and temporal properties for modeling pancreatic cancer" Sat. April 14. 10:45am (Grand Ballroom D)
- (Feb) Fang-Yi's paper "Facile synthesis of rapidly degrading PEG-based thiol-norbornene hydrogels" is published on ACS Macro Letters. Congrats!
- (Feb) Han's paper "Probing osteocyte functions in gelatin hydrogels with tunable viscoelasticity" is published on Biomacromolecules. Congrats!'
- (Sep) Matt's paper "Dynamic click hydrogels for xeno-free culture of induced pluripotent stem cells" is published on Advanced Biosystems. Congrats!
- (Sep) Prof Lin has been appointed to Thomas J. Linnemeier Guidant Foundation Endowed Chair in Biomedical Engineering.
- (Aug) The lab welcomes a new Postdoc Dr. Zhongliang Jiang.
- (Aug) A new review paper on dynamic hydrogels has been accepted to Journal of Materials Chemistry B and will be highlighted on the journal front cover! Congrats to Matt and Han for the excellent contribution.
- (April) Hunter successfully defended his MS thesis. Congrats!
- (April) The Purdue University & Indiana University Boards of Trustees have approved Prof. Lin's promotion to Full Professor (effective July 1, 2020).
- (November) The lab says farewell to Gino and Kevin as they start their next chapters in life.
- (August) The lab welcomes three new members: postdocs Drs. Fang-Yi Lin and Min Hee Kim, and PhD student Chun-Yi (Wilbert) Chang.
- (July) Former lab member Britney Hundson's hypoxia-inducing hydrogel paper was recently published on Emergent Materials.
- (July) Gino successfully defended his PhD dissertation! Congratulations, Dr. Liu!
- (July) The lab receives a grant from the Walther Cancer Foundation. This is the Tier 2 award of the Oncology Physical Sciences & Engineering Embedding Program (Co-PIs: Drs. C. Lin, M. Ivan, and H. Konig).
- (May) The Lab welcomes two summer students: Rishi Das (NSF REU program) and Anthony Tam (Indianapolis Project SEED/STEM program). They will be working on various aspects of bioengineered microgels for tissue engineering applications.
- (April) Congratulations to Han, Kevin, and Dustin for successfully defending their MS theses.
- (February) Gino's new work has been accepted as a feature paper on the journal Gels! "A Diffusion-Reaction Model for Predicting Enzyme-Mediated Dynamic Hydrogel Stiffening." Gels 2019 (5) 17. Download the article here.
- (January) Han's new paper "Enzymatic Crosslinking of Dynamic Thiol-Norbornene Click Hydrogels" has been published! ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2019 (5) 1247-1256
- (December) The lab receives an NIH R01 grant (Title: BRAVE hydrogels for interrogating cell-matrix interactions in pancreatic desmoplasia) from the National Cancer Institute.
- (July) The lab says farewell to Britney and welcomes Hunter Johnson!
- (May) Prof. Lin joins the Editorial Board of journal Gels.
- (April) Congratulations to Matt on receiving a 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship to support his PhD research and education! Matt has also been offered a T32 Fellowship in the Bioengineering Interdisciplinary Training in Diabetes Research program in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University.
- (April) Gino will present a poster at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018 in Chicago.
- (April) The lab will deliver 6 oral presentations (5 regular talks and 1 rapid fire talk) and 1 poster in the 2018 Annual Meeting of Society for Biomaterials in Atlanta.
- Matt Arkenberg. "Enzymatic peptide ligation for in situ encapsulation and delivery of pancreatic islets" Thu. April 12. 2:45pm (Room 210/211)
- Han Nguyen. "Riboflavin as a visible light photoinitiator for dynamic stiffening of cell-laden hydrogels" Thu. April 12. 5:30pm (Room 208/209)
- Dustin Moore. "Reversibly stiffened hydrogels via enzyme-mediated peptide ligation" Fri. April 13. 2pm (Room 204/205)
- Britney Hudson. "Hypoxia-Inducible Hydrogels via Enzyme-Immobilization" Fri. April 13. 3:15pm (Room 204/205)
- Hung-Yi Liu. "Desmoplasia-mimetic gels with modular and temporal properties for modeling pancreatic cancer" Sat. April 14. 10:45am (Grand Ballroom D)
- (March) Matt receives a Travel Fellowship Award from IUPUI Graduate School to support his travel to the 2018 Annual Meeting of SFB.
- (January) Gino's enzyme-responsive dynamic hydrogel paper has been accepted to Biomaterials. Congrats!
- (January) Prof. Lin named to the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering.
2017
- (November) Matt's Biomaterials Science paper highlighted on the journal cover (thanks to Gino's creative art work)!
- (September) Matt's paper on orthogonal enzymatic reactions for crosslinking and tuning PEG-peptide hydrogels has been accepted for publication on Biomaterials Science. Congrats!
- (August) Prof. Lin receives the 2017 Abraham M. Max Distinguished Professor Award from IUPUI Purdue School of Engineering & Technology.
- (August) Congrats to Matt on receiving a poster award from the 3rd annual IU Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Symposium Day.
- (July) The lab says farewell to Camron as he starts his next chapter of life adventure in Roche Diagnostics!
- (July) The lab welcomes three new BME graduate students: Dustin Moore, Kevin Peuler, and Han Nguyen; as well as one IPREP fellow Britney Hudson.
- (April) Jon has been selected to participate in the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) in the summer by IUPUI Center for Research and Learning.
- (April) The lab presented four abstracts (one podium, three posters) in the 2017 Annual Meeting of Society for Biomaterials.
- (March) Camron successfully defended his MS thesis. Congrats!
- (March) The lab says farewell to John, who has accepted a position at Zimmer Biomet.
- (March) Camron's paper on hypoxia-inducing enzyme-immobilized hydrogels has been accepted to Journal of Biotechnology. Congrats!
- (March) Congrats to Camron on receiving a Travel Fellowship Award from the IUPUI Graduate School.
- (February) The lab welcomes a new undergraduate researcher Jon Stoller.
- (January) The lab participates in the Project SEED/STEM program and welcomes three high school students: Nathan Dlmmitt, Haley Gill, and Haley Davis.
- (January) The lab has a paper accepted for publication in Biomaterials Science (Shih, Liu, et al.). Congrats!
- (November) John successfully defended his MS thesis and has another manuscript accepted for publication in RSC Advances. Congrats!
- (November) Tanja's MS thesis has been awarded the Distinguished Master's Thesis Award by the IUPUI Graduate School! The Graduate School has also nominated her work for the 2017 Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Distinguished Master's Thesis Award! Congratulations, Tanja!
- (October) The Lab has two papers accepted for publication in Acta Biomaterialia (Liu HY et al.) and Journal of Applied Polymer Science (Greene T et al.). Congrats!
- (September) Hannie has accepted a research engineer position at Cook Medical. Congrats!
- (June) Hannie's paper: 'Tuning stiffness of cell-laden hydrogels via host-guest interactions' has been accepted to and featured on the front cover of Journal of Materials Chemistry B. Congrats!
- (June) Prof. Lin has been appointed as an Honorary Scientist and Advisor on Agricultural Science & Technology by the Rural Development Administration of the Republic of Korea.
- (June) The lab says farewell to Dr. Tsai-Yu Lin, who has accepted an industrial job as a senior scientist. Congrats on the new job!
- (June) This summer the lab welcomes two visiting scholars from S. Korea (Drs. Kwang-Gill Lee and HaeYong Kweon).
- (May) Prof. Lin has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
- (May) Hannie successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congrats Dr. Shih!
- (May) The Lab welcomes a new graduate student Matthew Arkenberg!
- (April) Our paper "Designing visible light cured thiol-acrylate hydrogels for studying HIPPO pathway activation in hepatocellular carcinorma cells" was featured on the back cover of Macromolecular Bioscience.
- (March) Hannie has been selected by Purdue University College of Engineering to receive the 2016 Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award! Congrats!
- (February) John receives a Graduate-Professional Educational Grant for supporting his travel to the 2016 ACS National Meeting in San Diego. Congrats!
- (January) The lab welcomes a new PhD student, Hung-Yi Liu.
- (January) Hannie has been selected to receive a Joe Bourland Travel Award and an A. H. Ismail Interdisciplinary Program Doctoral Research Travel Award from Purdue University to attend and present her research in the 2016 American Chemical Society Spring Meeting. Congrats!
- (December) The lab receives a Pilot Funding for Research Use of Core Facilities from Indiana Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute.
- (November) Tanja successfully defended her MS thesis. Congrats!
- (November) Tsai-Yu and John’s co-author paper has been accepted to Macromolecular Bioscience. Congrats!
- (October) John’s first paper on PEG-silk hybrid hydrogel has been accepted to Journal of Applied Polymer Science. Congrats!
- (October) Tanja’s first paper on modularly crosslinked gelatin hydrogel has been accepted to ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. Congrats!
- (October) Dr. Tsai-Yu Lin has been promoted to Research Assistant Professor! Congrats!
- (August) Hannie successfully passed the final stage of qualifying exam and is now a PhD candidate! Congrats!
- (June) The lab receives a Research Support Funds Grant (RSFG) from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to study the Hippo pathway in hepatocellular carcinoma cells in engineered 3D matrix.
- (June) The lab says farewell to Krista and welcomes three new graduate students - Brent Hukill, John Bragg, and Camron Dawes.
- (June) Prof. Lin was invited to participate the 2015 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, an annual symposium held by the National Academy of Engineering. About 100 outstanding engineers under the age of 45 are invited to discuss cutting-edge developments in selected engineering topics.
- (June) Hannie’s photoclick PEG-CD hydrogel paper has been accepted to Biomacromolecules. Congrats!
- (April) Prof. Lin has a review paper about crosslinking chemistry of biomimetic PEG hydrogels accepted to the journalRSC Advances.
- (April) Hannie has been selected by the School of Engineering and Technology to receive a Purdue Research Foundation Doctoral Research Grant. Congrats!
- (April) Tanja won an ECTM poster award from the ‘Engineering Cells and Their Microenvironment’ Special Interest Group (SIG) in the 2015 SFB annual meeting. Congrats!
- (April) John presented a poster in the 2015 IUPUI Research Day.
- (April) Prof. Lin organizes (with Prof. A. Kloxin of University of Delaware) a symposium ‘Advanced Hydrogels with Hierarchal Structure for Biological Applications‘ for the 2015 SFB Annual meeting.
- (March) Hannie and Tanja each has an abstract accepted (oral and poster presentation, respectively) to the 2015 Society for Biomaterials annual meeting in Charlotte, NC.
- (March) Hannie has been selected to receive a Joe Bourland Travel Award from Purdue University to attend and present her research in the 2015 Society for Biomaterials annual meeting. Congrats!
- (February) Prof. Lin has been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
- (November) Our new review paper about thiol-norbornene photo-click hydrogels is featured on the front cover of Journal of Applied Polymer Science. Check out the cover and the article here.
- (November) The lab is featured in the 2014 BME department newsletter. Check out the newsletter here.
- (November) Hannie’s “Visible light-initiated interfacial thiol-ene photopolymerization for forming islet surface conformal coating” manuscript has been accepted to Journal of Material Chemistry B. Congrats!
- (October) The lab has an invited review paper on thiol-norbornene hydrogels for tissue engineering applications accepted to Journal of Applied Polymer Science. Congrats!
- (September) John Bragg receives a UROP grant from IUPUI Center for Research and Learning. Congrats!
- (September) The lab welcomes a new undergraduate researcher - Krista Hakola. Welcome!
- (September) “Gelatin hydrogels formed by orthogonal thiol-norbornene photochemistry for cell encapsulation” is one of the Top 10 Most-accessed Biomaterials Science articles.
- (August) Former postdoc Chang Seok’s paper on thiol-ene hydrogels for modeling pancreatic cancer cell behaviors in 3D has been accepted to Biomaterials. Congrats!
- (August) Former postdoc Chang Seok accepts an Assistant Professor position in Department of Biosystems and Biomaterials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University in Korea. Congrats to Professor Ki!
- (July) The Lab receives another NIH R21 grant: Adaptable hydrogel platform to study pancreatic cancer. This is a collaborative project between the Lin Research Group and Dr. Murray Korc at IU School of Medicine.
- (July) Our orthogonally cross-linked gelatin hydrogel paper was featured in the front cover of the August issue of Biomaterials Science!
- (May) The Lab says farewell to Dr. Chang Seok Ki, Elaine Hao, Zach Munoz, and welcomes two new undergraduate researchers John Bragg and Timothy Emmel!
- (May) Tsai-Yu’s paper on manipulating hepatocyte cell fate in 3D has been accepted to Biomaterials. Congrats!
- (April) Elaine successfully defended her MS thesis. Congrats!
- (April) The lab receives another research funding support from 100 Voices of Hope for Breast Cancer Research to develop drug analogs for treatment of bone metastasis. The lead PIs of this project are Dr. Hari Nakshatri (IUSM) and Dr. Hiroki Yokota (IUPUI BME).
- (April) The lab receives a FORCES (Funding Opportunities for Research Commercialization and Economic Success) grant from IUPUI OVCR to develop advanced hydrogel systems for simultaneous delivery of hydrophobic and hydrophilic drugs.
- (April) Chien-Chi receives a Purdue Research Foundation Summer Faculty Research Grant.
- (April) Zach and Hannie’s orthogonal gelatin hydrogel paper has been accepted to Biomaterials Science. Congrats!
- (March) The lab receives an Indiana University Collaborative Research Grant (IUCRG) to develop 3D biomimetic hydrogels for functional liver tissue engineering. This work is a new research collaboration with Prof. Guoli Dai’s group in the Department of Biology at IUPUI Purdue School of Science.
- (March) Hannie receives an Honorable Mention in the Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) award competition for the upcoming Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. Congrats!
- (January) The lab welcomes new graduate student Tanja Greene!
- (January) Andrew & Chang Seok’s microgels paper was accepted to Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics. Congrats!
2013
- (November) Chien-Chi co-organizes a Symposium on ‘Synthetic Tools for Understanding Biological Phenomena’ for the Materials Research Society (MRS) 2013 Fall Meeting.
- (June) The lab welcomes new postdoc Dr. Tsai-Yu Lin!
- (April) Congrats to Hannie and Asad on successfully defending their MS thesis!
- (April) Zach was selected as a UROP summer fellow and will continue his research in our lab this summer. Congrats!
- (March) Four Lin Research Group members will deliver 5 presentations (4 talks, 1 poster) in 2013 Society For Biomaterials Annual Meeting in Boston (April 10-13).
- (March) Arika was selected as one of the 2013 IUPUI TOP 100 students. Congrats!
- (January) Chien-Chi was selected to receive a Young Investigator Award from the Frontiers in Bioengineering Workshop organized by Georgia Institute of Technology. Congrats!
- (January) Undergraduate researcher Zach Munoz joins the lab. Welcome!
- (January) The lab has been awarded a pilot grant from the IUPUI Biomechanics and Biomaterials Research Center(BBRC) to establish a synthetic hydrogel niche for studying pancreatic cancer cell morphogenesis.
- (November) Andrew and Arika to present their research at IURRC18.
- (October) Arika received a Commitment to Engineering Excellence Research Fund from the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI. Congrats!
- (July) The Lab successfully hosted a 2-hr hands-on experience in biomedical engineering for a group of 17 middle school students participating in the Minority Engineering Advancement Program (MEAP).
- (July) Hannie receives an IUPUI 2nd year University Fellowship Award. Congrats!!
- (June) MD/PhD student Jenny Lin will join the lab for her IU/Purdue MSTP program summer rotation.
- (June) Chien-Chi and Dr. Hiroki Yokota has been awarded a FORCE grant (Funding Opportunities for Research Commercialization and Economic Success) from IUPUI OVCR to develop Salubrinal-releasing orthopedic implants.
- (May) Undergraduate researcher Arika Kemp will join the lab to work on a project supported by Purdue School of Engineering and Technology (Commitment to Engineering Excellence Research Fund).
- (May) Undergraduate researcher Andrew Fraser, the 2012 IUPUI Top Male Student Awardee, will join the lab to work on a project supported by a UROP grant.
- (May) Two years in a row the Lin Research Group welcomes IUPUI Top Male Students (Andrew Fraser in 2012 and Asad Raza in 2011)!
- (March) Chien-Chi has been awarded an Indiana Diabetes Research Center Pilot & Feasibility grant entitled: “Biomimetic hydrogel coating for enhancing immuno-isolation of pancreatic islets”!
- (December) Asad receives an Education Enhancement Grant (for presenting at a conference) from the Graduate and Professional Student Government. Congrats!
- (October) Hannie receives an Education Enhancement Grant (for presenting at a conference) from the Graduate and Professional Student Government. Congrats!
- (October) Asad, Hannie, and Kurtis gave poster presentations at the SFB Biomaterials Day in Purdue University, West Lafayette
- (October) Chien-Chi was invited to give a talk at the SFB Biomaterials Day in Purdue University, West Lafayette
- (October) Chien-Chi was invited to give a talk at the 2011 Annual Meeting of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in Minneapolis, MN
- (July) Kurtis presents his summer UROP project “PEG-DTT-albumin hybrid hydrogels for controlled release applications” in the CRL Poster Symposium.
- (July) Our group has been awarded an NIH/NIBIB R21 grant entitled: “Thiol-ene click hydrogels for in situ cell expansion and differentiation”
- (June) Asad & Hannie became graduate students in the lab!
- (May) Kurtis named a summer research fellow from the IUPUI Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP).
- (April) Asad presents a research poster in the IUPUI 2011 Research Day.
- (April) Asad was named the IUPUI Outstanding male student for 2011!
- (April) Hannie was named an IUPUI TOP10 female student for 2011!
- (March) Hannie received a BME Service Award from the department!
- (February) Hannie & Asad received 2011 IUPUI TOP100 students recognition! (link)
- (January) Hannie received a Commitment to Engineering Excellence Research Fund from the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI.
- (January) Asad received an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) research grant from IUPUI Center for Research and Learning.
- (January) Undergraduate researcher Kurtis Lowery joins the lab.
- (November) Chien-Chi received a Research Support Funds Grant (RSFG) from IUPUI OVCR for a project entitled ‘Enhance beta-cell survival & function in autocrine-amplifying hydrogels.’ (press release)
- (October) Undergraduate researcher Hannie Shih joins the lab.
- (August) Undergraduate researcher Asad Raza joins the lab.
- (August) The Lin Research Group opens its door on August 2, 2010.
