News

2024

July:

  • Our team has received funding from the 2024 Pilot Project Program by the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science.

         We are excited to collaborate with Dr. Jones Douglas, a vascular surgeon at UMass Chan Medical School, to develop fully bioresorbable vascular grafts for bypass surgery.

  • Dr. Ding was invited by Dr. Shayn Peirce-Cottler, Chair of BME at UVA, to speak at the Seventh Annual Mid-Atlantic Advanced Biomanufacturing Symposium at the University of Virginia on July 11-12, 2024.

May:

  • Dr. Ding gave a talk at the 12th World Biomaterials Congress 2024 in Daegu, Korea on May 26-31, 2024.                                                                                                                                                     .                     

  • Our collaborative work with Northwestern University has been published in Bioactive Materials. Check it out here.

         Liam Warlick, a senior undergraduate student and mentee of Dr. Ding, made significant contributions to the control of drug release from 3D-printed vascular scaffolds in this work. Inspired by his research experience with Dr. Ding, Liam decided to pursue a PhD and has received an NSF fellowship for graduate school. He will be attending UCSB for his PhD studies. Best of luck to him on his journey!

  • Congratulations to our P.h.D student, Rao Fu, for winning the 2024 BME Sotak Research Excellence Award!

 

 

February: First 3D-printed fully bioresorbable polymer stent in our lab!

  

2023

 

1. The results of our first lab survey have been released. We are delighted to observe that individuals in the lab are experiencing both joy and productivity. Moving forward, we remain committed to enhancing our lab environment and mentorship.

 

Lab-Survey-ResultDownload

 

2. We celebrated the beginning of the holiday season, welcomed our dear friend, Evan Jones, who came to visit us from Northwestern University, and enjoyed the New England seafood! 

 

 

3. Dr. Ding was invited to give a talk in the Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at WPI on Nov. 8th.

4. Dr. Guillermo Ameer from Northwestern University and Dr. Guohao Dai from Northeastern University visited us and delivered great seminars in our department!

5. Our Ph.D. student, Rao Fu gave a talk on her research project “Additive Manufacturing of Regenerative Scaffolds with Micropatterns” at BMES 2023 in Seattle!