The DBG has licensed an organ-on-chip technology to New Orleans biotech Obatala Sciences. Obatala will use the technology to build disease platforms for curing obesity, diabetes, and cancer. The collaboration has been covered by businesswire in ...
After 17 years of outstanding science in Cambridge, the DBG has moved to the Engineering School’s new campus in Allston. As of March 2, the lab is fully operational and has resumed experiments. Thank you to all alumni and current personnel for constantly raising the bar. Stand by for the next chapter of DBG science!
Congratulations to Dr. Suhwan Kim, who has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Dong-A University in Basun, South Korea! Dr. Kim was an integral part of our brain team for over a year as a postdoctoral fellow. We wish him the best on this next step in his career!
Dr. Kevin Kit Parker launched Biophysics Reviews, a new peer-reviewed journal for the biophysics research community on December 14. Produced by scientific publisher AIP Publishing, the aims to expand “on the tradition of excellence set by Applied Physics Reviews (APR) by publishing high impact, cutting edge research and reviews that are valuable for both emerging and experienced researchers”. References: 1. KK Parker, L Longobardi, A Sulicz. “Welcome to Biophysics Reviews, a big tent for the biophysics community”. Biophysics Reviews....
Congratulations to Dr. Herdeline Ardoña, who has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the University of California Irvine Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. She joined the Disease Biophysics Group as a postdoctoral fellow in 2017 and was an essential part of our research and mentoring team. Best of luck to you as you settle in and get your research group up and running!
The Disease Biophysics Group congratulates Drs. Aaron Glieberman and Blakely O’Connor for defending and submitting their PhD dissertations in the 2019-2020 academic year! The DBG thanks them for their efforts and bids them good luck in their future endeavors.
Congratulations to DBG alumni Francesco Pasqualini (University of Pavia, Italy) and Ben Maoz (Tel Aviv University, Israel), and longtime associate Maximilian Emmert (Universität Zürich, Switzerland), for being awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant this year!
The DBG would like to extend our congratulations to Seungkuk Ahn for their appointment as an Associate Professor at University College Dublin, Charles Institute of Dermatology. Seungkuk is a DBG nanofiber alum and will be continuing their academic career in ECM fiber engineering and skin pysiopathology.
We would like to welcome our newest Visiting Scholar, Julia Deinsberger. We look forward to working along side Julia during her next 12 months at the DBG.
We would like to welcome our newest grad students Kacper Migacz, Michio Kawai, and Yoonseo Lee. We look forward to working along side these PhD students during their time at the DBG.
The DBG welcomes Yongjun Jang as our newest post-doc. Dr. Jang joins us from Korea University where he completed his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering.Read more about Yongjun Jang Joins the DBG
