News

• August 2009: Kivilcim's paper, "The role of printing parameters and scaffold biopolymer proerties in the efficacy of a new hybrid nano-bioprinting system," was accepted for publication in Biofabrication.
• July 2009: Dr. Clyne was awarded a Pilot grant from the Nanotechnology Institute for a project titled "Toxicology of bare and coated iron oxide nanoparticles for vascular applications." The project is a collaboration with Vladimir Muzykantov from the University of Pennsylvania.
• July 2009: Dr. Clyne's paper, "Vascular growth factor binding kinetics to the endothelial cell basement membrane, with a kinetics-based correction for substrate binding," was accepted for publication in Cytotechnology.
• July 2009: Congratulations to Krishna Priya Arjunan, who won a scholarship to attend Vasculata 2009 at the Cleveland Clinic.
• July 2009: Kivilcim's paper, "Controlled flame synthesis of Fe2O3 and Fe3O4 nanoparticles: effect of flame configuration, flame temperature and additive loading," was accepted to the Journal of Nanoparticle Research.
• June 2009: Welcome summer students! Heather Weber (Penn State), Alissa Sperling (Lehigh University), Clara Engel (Drexel STAR), and Bora Baydere (Summer Mentorship, Koc High School, Turkey)
• June 2009: Dr. Clyne, Dannielle Figueroa, Kivilcim Buyukhatipoglu, Sameer Kalghatgi, and Steve Kemeny presented their research at the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference in Lake Tahoe, CA. Congratulations to Sameer and Steve who won 2nd place and an honorable mention! It wasn't all work... check out the pictures.
• June 2009: The senior design team, consisting of Pak Kau Lim, Kate Strubinger, Caitlyn Locey, Kwok Lee, and Frank Gillan successfully developed a microfluidic device to test endothelial cell permeability.
• May 2009: Congratulations to Dannielle, who received the NSF IGERT fellowship for the second year.
• May 2009: Manjima Dhar, a senior at Masterman high school, presented her senior project, "Effect of strain on endothelial cells." She worked with Dannielle on the project.
• May 2009: Dr. Clyne was awarded an NIH R03 grant, "Design and development of a dielectrophoretic device for cell mechanics," which provides $150,000 over 2 years.
• May 2009: Dr. Clyne presented an invited seminar, "Bioprinted nanoparticles for tissue engineering," at the IEEE CIMSA special session on Biomanufacturing in Hong Kong.
• April 2009: All lab members and the senior design team presented posters at Drexel Research Day 2009.
• April 2009: Dr. Clyne received funding an NIH R03 grant titled "Design and development of a dielectrophoretic device for cell mechanics."
• March 2009: Dr. Clyne presented her research on the effects of collagen glycation on the plasminogen system balance at the 2009 Vascular Matrix Biology and Bioengineering Workshop in Whistler, BC, Canada.
• February 2009: Dr. Clyne was awarded the Louis and Bessie Stein Fellowship for a collaborative project on local drug delivery with Hebrew University.
• January 2009: Dr. Clyne was awarded a research co-op position, which will allow Karl to get paid while doing his master's thesis this spring and summer.
• January 2009: Kivilcim's paper, "Interaction of superparamagnetic, flame synthesized iron oxide nanoparticles with porcine aortic endothelial cells: toxicity, cellular uptake and proliferation studies" was accepted in the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
• January 2009: Dr. Clyne won her NSF CAREER award! The project, titled “Biochemical and biomechanical interactions within the endothelial cell – basement membrane co-regulatory unit,” provides $400,000 over 5 years and comes from the Biomedical Engineering program in CBET.
• December 2008: The lab made sushi and played Trivial Pursuit (1990's edition). Check out the pictures!
• December 2008: Kavitha defended her master's thesis. Congratulations!
• November 2008: Kivilcim Buyukhatipogly presented her research on combustion synthesized nanoparticles in oral presentations at both ASME and AIChE conferences.
• October 2008: Dr. Clyne presented her work on comparative responses of endothelial and smooth muscle cells in high glucose at the Biomedical Engineering Society meeting.
• September 2008: Dr. Clyne's paper was published in the Journal of Cellular Physiology.
• September 2008: The lab went bowling! Check out the pictures!
• August 2008: Dr. Clyne chaired a session and presented Sameer's plasma medicine project at IEEE EMBC in Vancouver, CA.
• August 2008: Dr. Clyne presented her work on endothelial cells, fibroblast growth factor, and tumor necrosis factor at the Endothelial Cell Phenotypes in Health and Disease Gordon Conference in Maine.
• July 2008: Dannielle Solomon Figuera was awarded a $1000 scholarship to attend Vasculata 2008, a conference on vascular biology in Seattle, WA
• June 2008: Dr. Clyne presented her work on endothelial cell response to growth factors in high glucose conditions at the 9th International Conference on Angiogenesis in Patras, Greece.
• June 2008: Sameer Khalghatgi won the Best Student Paper Award for his work on plasma cell treatment at the 2008 IEEE ICOPS conference.
• April 2008: Dr. Clyne gave a seminar at Temple University in the Mechanical Engineering department.
• April 2008: Dr. Clyne presented her work on endothelial cells, fibroblast growth factor, and tumor necrosis factor at Experimental Biology.
  
• April 2008: Dannielle Solomon Figuera was awarded a Nano IGERT fellowship.
  
• April 2008: Pak Kau Lim won Best Student Paper at Drexel Research Day.
• March 2008: Dr. Clyne gave a seminar at Johns Hopkins University.
• March 2008: Greeshma Manomohan and Kavitha Rajendran presented their dielectrophoretic mechanics device at the spring Materials Research Society Meeting.