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June 2025. Maggie sucessfully passes her doctoral comprehensive oral and written examination.

May 2025. Josh, Juhi, and Sierra all graduated from their respective undergraduate degree programs and Emily graduated from her masters program. Congrats everyone!

May 2025. Arezoo, Greg, and Grace all graduated from their respective PhD programs. We are so proud!

April 2025. Josh is awarded the NSF-GRFP. Congrats Josh!

April 2025. Arezoo successfully defends her doctoral dissertation titled “Modulating Immune Responses in Vaccine Immunotherapy: The Impact of Adjuvant Crystallinity and Controlled Antigen Release on Immune Responses”. Congrats Dr. Esrafili!

April 2025. Grace successfully defends her doctoral dissertation titled “The role of dynamic physical cues on mesenchymal stem cell behavior”. Congrats Dr. Schwarz!

April 2025. Greg successfully defends his doctoral dissertation titled “Development and characterization of a shear-thinning hydrogel and neuregluin-1 presenting microgel for neural tissue engineering applications”. Congrats Dr. Jensen!

March 2025. Josh, Juhi, and Sierra all successfully defend their honors thesis projects!

March 2025. Grace and Maggie present oral talks on their research at the National Graduate Research Polymer Conference.

February 2025. Maggie is selected as an Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholar.

February 2025. Maggie and Josh present posters at the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting.

December 2024. Cheng joins the lab.

December 2024. Holiday Lab Social!

November 2024. Emily presents at the MORE symposium on her research, “Delivery of Alpha-Ketoglutarate from Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels for Bone Repair Applications.” Meir presents his work at the FURI symposium with a poster titled “Measuring the Local Strain During Tensile Testing of Electrospun Fibrous Mats for Tissue Engineering Applications.”

November 2024. Maggie wins first place at the Society for Biomaterials Industry Connect for her oral presentation titled “Improving Bone Regeneration with Implantable Biomaterials and Immunomodulatory Agents”. Emily wins third place in the poster competition!

November 2024. Arezoo’s paper titled “Crystallinity of covalent organic frameworks controls immune responses” is published by Nature Communications. Maggie and Josh are co-authors. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54227-9

October 2024. Grace attends the 2024 BMES Annual Meeting and presents her research titled “Magento-Responsive Fibers for Temporal Control over Fiber Alignment within Fiber-Hydrogel Composites”.

October 2024. Greg attends Biointerface 2024 held by the Surfaces in Biomaterials Foundation. He presented a poster and won 3rd place in a student 3-minute thesis competition.

September 2024. Arezoo attends the 2024 Society For Biomaterials Regional Symposia and presented a poster titled, “Modulating Immune Responses in Vaccine Immunotherapy: The Impact of Adjuvant Crystallinity”.

April 2024. Emily sucessfully defends her senior honors thesis.

April 2024. The lab is awarded patent no. US 11,965,269 B2 titled “Manufacturing Gradient Materials Using Magnetically-Assisted Electrospinning”.

April 2024. Arezoo passes her comprehensive exam.

April 2024. Grace presents a talk at the Biological Design Graduate Program Seminar.

April 2024. Emily presents a poster titled, “The Release of Alpha-Ketoglutarate from Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels for Bone Repair Applications” at the Spring FURI Symposium. Her project is highlighted by the Fulton Forge Student Research Expo.

April 2024. Emily successfully defended her Honors Thesis.

April 2024. Maggie won 2nd place in the SBHSE Grand Slam Competition.

February 2024. The lab attends the 4th Symposium in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Grace gave a talk titled, “Using magnetic fields to control fiber alignment within static and dynamic hydrogels”. Greg presented a poster.

December 2023. Fallon’s paper, “Using dynamic biomaterials to study the temporal role of bioactive peptides during osteogenesis” is published in Biomaterials Advances.

November 2023. Emily presents a poster titled, “The Release of Alpha-Ketoglutarate from Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels for Bone Repair Applications” at the Fall FURI Symposium.

October 2023.  The lab attends the Southwest Biomaterials Day. Grace won 1st place and Arezoo won 3rd place for their talks in the rapid-fire competition. Greg, Grace, and Juhi presented posters.

October 2023. Lab social!

August 2023. Maggie and Ella join the lab.

June 2023. Sanika accepts a post-doctoral position at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

April 2023. The lab attends the 2023 SFB Annual Meeting & Exposition. Greg gave a talk titled, “Design of cell-adhesive guest-host hydrogels for neural tissue engineering”. Grace presented a poster titled, “Using magnetic fields to control fiber alignment within static and dynamic hydrogels” and gave a 3-minute thesis presentation.

April 2023. Juhi presented a poster titled, “Evaluating the Forces During Injection for Shear-Thinning Hydrogels” at Mayo Clinic Symposium on Regenerative Medicine & Surgery 2023.

March 2023. Greg is selected as an ARCS Scholar.

January 2023. Juhi codes a python program to conduct injection force data analysis.

January 2023. Emily, Sierra, and Meir join the lab.

December 2022. Grace passes her comprehensive exam.

November 2022. The lab attends the 2022 AIChE Annual Meeting. Grace gave a talk titled, “Using Magnetic Fields to Control Fiber Alignment within Fiber-Hydrogel Composites”. Greg gave a talk titled, “Development and characterization of injectable, guest-host hydrogels for neural tissue engineering applications”. Juhi presented a poster titled, “Determining the Effect of Fiber Inclusion in Shear-Thinning Hydrogels on Injection Forces” at AIChE Undergraduate Student Poster Competition.

October 2022. The lab attends the Southwest Biomaterials Day. Grace presented a poster titled, “Fiber-Hydrogel Composites with Magnetically-Responsive Fibers for Controllable Alignment”. Juhi presented a poster.

October 2022. The lab presented posters at the 3rd Symposium in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Juhi’s poster was titled, “Evaluating the Injection Force for Shear-Thinning Hydrogels With and Without Encapsulated Fibers”. Greg’s was titled, “Development and characterization of guest-host hydrogels for traumatic brain injury applications”. Grace’s was titled, “Dynamic Control of Alignment within Fiber-Hydrogel Composites”.

July 2022. Greg passes his comprehensive exam.

July 2022. Sanika joins the lab.

June 2022. Juhi joins the lab.

May 2022. Quinn successfully defends his Honors Thesis: Characterization of Norbornene-Modified Cellulose Electrospun Fibers in Different Solvent Systems for Biomedical Applications.

December 2021. Fallon and Kevin both successfully defend their doctoral dissertations! Congrats!

May 2021. Grace passes her qualifying exam.

May 2021. Lincoln graduates with a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering.

May 2021. Morgan graduates with a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering.

April 2021. Fallon and Kevin give oral presentations at the Society for Biomaterials Conference.

January 2021. Quinn joins the lab.

January 2021. Morgan accepts a job offer with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to be a Process Engineer.

December 2020.  Greg passes his qualifying exam.

November 2020. Dr. Holloway elected to the AICHE Board of Directors.

August 2020. Kevin and Fallon pass their comprehensive exams.

May 2020. Lincoln successfully defends his Honors Thesis: Controlling the Electrospun Scaffold Profile at the Interface between Varying Fiber Alignment.”

February 2020. The lab hosts an event for Open Door

February 2020. Morgan joins the lab.

October 2019. Greg joins the lab.

May 2019. Grace joins the lab.

February 2019. The lab hosts an event for Night of the Open Door

November 2018. Amber, Andrew, and Nathan present posters at the FURI symposium.

April 2018. Corey receives an internship with the FDA.

April 2018. Alessandra hired to work at Intel.

April 2018. Minh successfully defends his Honors Thesis: Fabrication of Fiber Alignment and Chemical Gradient Scaffold for Tendon-Bone Repair Using Electrospinning.

March 2018. Alessandra successfully defends her Honors Thesis: Utilizing Magnetic Electrospinning to Create Gradients in Fiber Alignment for Interfacial Tissue Engineering.

February 2018. Adriana and Alessandra are awarded Gore funding.

January 2018. Lindsey and Andrew are accepted into the Master’s Opportunity in Research Engineering Program.

January 2018. Corey joins the Holloway Lab.

December 2017. Lindsey presents her Master’s project at the Biomedical Engineering Symposium.

November 2017. Adriana and Amber present their projects at FURI Symposium.

October 2017.  Alessandra presents poster American Institute of Chemical Engineers national conference student poster competition.

October 2017. Julianne presents electrospinning work at American Institute of Chemical Engineers national conference.

October 2017. Fallon and Kevin present their projects at the Biomedical Engineering Society Conference.

September 2017. Fallon presents at the Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Association Symposium.

September 2017. Andrew joins the Holloway Lab.

August 2017. Kevin and Fallon defend Qualifiers.

May 2017. Jasmine joins the Holloway Lab.

April 2017.  Fallon presents at ASU’s Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Bioengineering Symposium.

March 2017. Adriana accepted into the Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute REU program.

March 2017. Nathan joins the Holloway Lab.

February 2017. Kevin and Fallon present their poster at the Mayo Clinic Regenerative Medicine and Surgery Symposium.

February 2017. Adriana joins the Holloway Lab.

September 2016. Amber joins the Holloway Lab.

August 2016. Kevin and Fallon join the Holloway Lab.

June 2016. The Holloway lab website is live.

March 2016. Dean’s Fellowship awarded to Fallon and Kevin.

March 2016. Undergraduates Alessandra and Minh join the Holloway lab.

January 2016. Julianne Holloway joins the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy at ASU.