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Jul 1, 2022
Wen awarded CLOVES grant
Congratulations to Dr. Wen Yih Aw, a biomolecular engineering (BME) postdoctoral fellow in the Polacheck Lab, for recently receiving a...
May 19, 2022
Elizabeth awarded NIH F31
Elizabeth was awarded a prestigious F31 National Research Service Predoctoral Award from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute....
May 12, 2022
Sarah awarded T32
Sarah has been awarded a position on the Comparative Molecular Medicine Training Fellowship through NCSU. The objective of the training...
Apr 12, 2022
UNC/NCSU BME Retreat
The lab came out in force and presented a whole bunch of posters at the annual retreat, which focused on closer collaboration with NCCU....
Apr 6, 2022
Sara awarded a SURF
Sara was awarded funding from the College of Arts and Sciences to conduct summer research in the lab. Her work will focus on 3D printing...
Mar 14, 2022
Elizabeth presents at Biomaterials Day
Elizabeth presented her work on developing engineered approaches for understanding and treating vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome at the...
Feb 22, 2022
Stephanie awarded Renal T32 training fellowship
The highly competitive position will enable Stephanie to train alongside scientists and clinicians working to address challenges with the...
Feb 8, 2022
Grace awarded prestigious Lucas Scholarship
The funding provided by the Biomedical Engineering Department and UNC School of Medicine will support her efforts to control the...
Jan 20, 2022
Gi-hun publishes in Biofabrication
Congrats to Gi-hun and all of his co-authors for the hard work that went into the development of the MuLTi-Flow platform. Check out the...
Dec 16, 2021
Hiring postdocs to develop vasculature-on-chip models
We are seeking to hire postdoctoral associates to develop microfluidic models for drug testing in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)....
Dec 16, 2021
Emily wins undergraduate research award
Emily was one of four undergraduates in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering to win the BME Excellence in Undergraduate...
Dec 16, 2021
Polacheck awarded R35 MIRA
The 5 year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institute for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) will fund three project areas within the...
Oct 16, 2021
Hiring engineering research technicians!
We are hiring engineers with bachelors degrees in mechanical engineering or related fields. The position involves building tissue...
Oct 15, 2021
4 presentations at BMES
Congratulations to Elizabeth, Emily, Stephanie, and Wen for presenting 2 podium presentations and 2 posters at BMES in Orlando. Stephanie...
Aug 20, 2021
Sandra publishes in Biomicrofluidics
Sandra's work during her 4-month visit to the Polacheck Lab in 2018 was recently published in Biomicrofluidics. Sandra is a PhD candidate...
Jul 1, 2021
Polacheck awarded an AHA Career Development Grant
Bill was awarded the 3-yr grant to further develop cell biology and zebrafish approaches within his lab. Dr. Aw will be leading the...
Jun 29, 2021
Collaboration with Baker Lab published in Acta Biomaterialia
Work led by the newly-minted Dr. Willy Wang in Dr. Brendon Baker's lab at Michigan demonstrates the role of porous media properties in...
Jun 7, 2021
Collaboration with Trappmann Lab published in Nature Communications
Today, work from the Trappmann Lab investigating the role of matrix adhesion and degradability was published in Nature Communications. A...
Apr 19, 2021
Crescentia presents a virtual talk at the Society for Biomaterials annual meeting
Crescentia was awarded a virtual talk to present an update on her work to grow vascular networks within decellularized porcine...
Apr 9, 2021
Elizabeth presents an update at the DEFY VEDS scientific meeting
Elizabeth joined leading clinicians and scientists working to understand the mechanisms that underly vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome to...
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