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News and Events

Apr 2018: Our lab received a joint R01 with Murry lab and Wang lab, Exciting!

Mar 2018: Congratulations to Dr. Surya Kotha, the second PhD in my lab! I am very proud, Wish her the best!

Oct 2017: Dr. Ying Zheng received ISCRM Innovation Pilot Award! Congrats!

Oct 2017: Nicole Zeinstra received ISCRM Scholar Award! Congrats!

Sep 2017: Dr. Ryan Nagao received NIH K99/R00 award! Big Congrats!

June 2017: Connor Tsuchida and Kiet Phong are leaving to UC Berkeley for Graduate school, Congrats and best wishes!

June 2017: Celina Gunnarsson received UW COE Dean's medal and President Medal, What an achievement!! Congrats!

Mar 2017: Congratulations Dr. Redd! The first Ph.D. from the lab. I am so proud of her! Wish her the best!

Mar 2017: Dr. Samuel Rayner joined our lab as a senior fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care Divison, Welcome!

Dec 2016: Rachel Y. Straughn and Connor Tsuchida received Mary Gates Research Scholarship! Congrats!

Dec 2016: YoonJung Choi passed her general exam, excellent work!

Oct 2016: Connor Tsuchida received a Washington Research Foundation Fellowship! Congrats!

Oct 2016: Alexander Novokhodko received a Levinson Emerging Scholar Award! Congrats!

June 2016: Rachel Y. Straughn and Caleb Perez received a UW Bioengineering Undergraduate Scholarship! Congrats!

June 2016: Kiet Phong, Dominic Tran and Eric Juang graduated with B.S degree in UW Bioengineering, Congrats!

June 2016: Christian Mandrycky passed his qualifying exam, Congrats!

June 2016: Sierra Copner joined for undergraduate summer research, welcome!

May 2016: Amie Adams received UW ITHS TL1 Multidisciiplinary Predoctoral CLinical Research Summer Training grant, Congrats!

May 2016: Amie Adams received NIH BCTG T32 training grant, Congrats!

Apr 2016: Surya Kotha passed her general exam, one more milestone!

Apr 2016: Connor Tsuchida was selected as NYU summer undergraduate research program scholar and a Visiting Summer Research Intern at Wyss Institute, congrats! Many places to explore!

Mar 2016: Caleb Perez was selected for EPFL life sciences summer research, congrats!

Mar 2016: Dominic Tran and Andrew Luo received Mary Gates Research Scholarship, congrats!

Feb 2016: Meredith's paper on patterning vessels in cardiac constructs was accepted by Tissue Engineering, congrats!

Feb 2016: Kiet Phong received Senior Capstone Scholarship, congrats!

Jan 2016: Celina Gunnarsson and Sarah Albrecht joined the lab for captone project, welcome!

Dec 2015: Kiet Phong and Caleb Perez received Mary Gates Research Scholarship, congrats!

Dec 2015: Caleb Perez won "Freshman Medal"! Big achievement, congrats!

Dec 2015: Surya Kotha received ASH Abstract Achievement Award, congrats!

Nov 2015: Jin Xu defended her MS thesis, congrats!

Oct 2015: Giovanni Ligresti and Ryan nagao's paper is accepted in JASN, congrats!

Sep 2015: Meredith Robert's figure, in the collaborative work with Murry lab, was selected as cover image in Sep issue of Development, congrats!

Sep 2015: Connor Tsuchida joined the lab for the undergraduate research, Welcome!

June 2015: Ryan Nagao received UW Nephrology T32 training grant, congrats!

June 2015: Ying's VWF paper is accepted by Nat Comms, congrats!

June 2015: Andrew Luo, Abdirazak Musa and Caleb Perez joined the lab for the summer research, Welcome!

June 2015: Joy Xu and Quanhui Liu graduated from BIOEN undergraduate program, congrats!

May 2015: Kiet Phong received CoMotion Mary Gates Innovation Scholars, congrats!

April 2015: We had a successful engineering discovery day, thanks to everyone's contribution!

Mar 2015: Quanhui Liu received Mary Gates Research Scholarship, congrats!

Feb 2015: Raluca's paper is published in Circ Research, congrats!

Jan 2015: Meredith Roberts received UW CVP T32 training grant, congrats!

Jan 2015: Christian Mandrycky joined the lab for graduate student first year rotation, welcome!

Dec 2014: Kiet Phong received Mary Gates Research Scholarship, congrats!

Oct 2014: Meredith Roberts passed her general exam, congrats!

Oct 2014: Raluca Marcu joined the lab as a postdoc fellow, welcome!!

June 2014: Surya Kotha received UW BCTG training grant, congrats!

Sep 2014: Amie Adams joined the lab for graduate student first year rotation, welcome!

July 2014: Brian Hayes received F32 postdoctoral fellowship, congrats!

Mar 2014: The Youngest lab member Tyler Xu is born ~~~~

Mar 2014: Jin Xu and Dominic Tran received Mary Gates Research Scholarship, congrats!

Feb 2014: Sijie Sun passed her defense, congrats, Dr. Sun!

Jan 2014: Ryan Nagao joined the lab as a postdoc fellow, welcome!

Sep. 2013: Ying Zheng is awarded NIH Director's New Innovator Award, congrats!

Sep. 2013: Ying Zheng is promoted to be a tenure-track assistant professor in UW BIOE, congrats!

Sep. 2013: Michael Carapezza joined the lab as a first year graduate student for rotation, welcome!

Jun. 2013: Congratulations to Surya Kotha for receiving HHMI Scholar Award!

Feb. 2013: Welcome to Surya Kotha for joining our lab for her graduate work!

Feb. 2013: Congratulations to Meredith Roberts for passing her qualifying exam!

Feb. 2013: Xiaolin Zhang joined the lab as a Master graduate student, welcome!

Dec. 2012: Congratulations to Katie Truong for receiving Mary Gates Research Scholarship!

Oct. 2012: Giovanni Ligresti joined the lab as a postdoc working on the kidney project, welcome!

Sep. 2012: Dominic Tran joined the lab as a freshman, welcome!

Sep. 2012: Surya joined the lab as a first year graduate student for rotation, welcome!

Aug. 2012: David Feldman left for MIT for graduate school, Congratulations!

July 2012: Ying Zheng, as a Co-Investigator in a UW team, is awarded NIH/NCATS grant -  “A Tissue Engineered Human Kidney Microphysiological System”.

June 2012: Senior students Lin Qi and Qi Wu graduated and moved to Cornell U and Washington U. for graduate school, congrats!

May 2012: Congratulations to Meredith Roberts for receiving the Bioengineering Cardiovascular Training Grant (BCTG)!

May. 2012: Our paper "In vitro microvessel for the study of angiogenesis and thrombosis" is published in PNAS!

Jan. 2012: David Feldman joined the lab as a research scientist, Welcome!

Jan. 2012. Meredith Roberts joined the lab as a first year graduate student. Welcome!

Jan. 2012: Ying Zheng is awarded UW Royalty Research Fund.

Dec. 2011: Ying Zheng is awarded American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant.

Apr. 2011: Ying Zheng joined UW BIOE as a Research Assistant Professor. Starting magic in an empty lab!