Pictured: Yuka Sugamura presents her thesis to an audience of students and her thesis committee.  

Congratulations to Dr. Nikkhah for receiving 2018 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award!

Look out for Danh’s  article titled “A Three-Dimensional (3D) Organotypic Microfluidic Model for Glioma Stem Cell – Vascular Interactions” in Biomaterials as part of special theme issue on Ex Vivo Tissue Chip Models in collaborations with Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI)! Eric is a co-authors on the paper as well. Congrats!

Look out for Harpinder’s article titled “The Role of Desmoplasia and Stromal Fibroblasts on Anti-Cancer Drug Resistance in a Microengineered Tumor Model” in the young innovator award issue of the journal Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE).  Mayar and Casey are the co-authors on the paper. Congrats all!  

Pictured: Ali presents his thesis to his PhD committee. It is our great pleasure to announce the successful defense of Ali’s PhD dissertation. He is the first student to do so in the Nikkhah lab. Ali has worked long and hard toward this goal and we could not be more proud of him. He will…

Danh’s paper Breast Cancer Cell Invasion into a Three Dimensional Tumor-Stroma Microenvironment is the Scientific Reports Editor’s Choice for May 2018 in the category of bioengineering. Read about it at: https://www.nature.com/collections/csxtqfpfwt Read the Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep34094

Congratulations to Harpinder on winning the SBHSE Merit Award this year! Well deserved for all her hard work!

This month Dr. Nikkhah was awarded the Arizona New Investigator Award (ABRC). Congratulations!

Today, PhD candidate Harpinder Saini comes one step closer to finishing her PhD. Congrats!

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Danh Truong for being awarded the ARCS and ASU Graduate College Completion Fellowships! [metaslider id=1468] Pictured: Danh Presents his research and gives a speech at the ARCS fellowship dinner.