News
June 26, 2025
Farewell lab gathering for Jana Zarubova and Yifan Wu. Thank you for your ground-breaking work and collaborative spirit! Best of luck with all your future endeavours!
June 26, 2025
Congratulations to Yifan Wu, Joyce Huang, and the class of 2025!
June 3, 2025
Congratulations to our students who are graduating this summer: Yifan Wu (Ph.D.), Catherine Ngo (Master of Engineering), Johnathan Horn (B.S.), and Sam Denton (B.S.)! We wish you all the best and continued success!
May 22, 2025
Congratulations to Yifan for the Outstanding PhD Award in the Department of Bioengineering!
May 22, 2025
Congratulations to Yifan Wu, the newest Ph.D in our lab!
April 14, 2025
Welcome Ekta and Catherine to the Li lab!
April 14, 2025
Congratulations to Karina on your M.S. degree!
January 29, 2025
November 22, 2024
November 22, 2024
Welcome Shubing (Brian), Nico, Soomin, Ammabel, Vedant, Alexandra, Jason, and Sara to Li lab!
June 14, 2024
Congratulations to the Class of 2024: Tyler (Ph.D.), Xiao (Ph.D.), Mimi (M.S.), Adelmo (M.S.), Grace (B.S.), Ysabel (B.S.), Silvi (B.S.), Louise (B.S.), Katerina (B.S.), Rianna (B.S.), and Bena (B.S.)!
December 19, 2023
Congratulations to Yang on his faculty position at the Sichuan University!
December 19, 2023
Congratulations to Jace for his M.S. degree!
June 26, 2023
Jennifer Soto and the team demonstrate the role of intracellular tension in chromatin organization, published in Advanced Science!
June 23, 2023
Our mechano-epigenetic engineering project led by Yang Song and Jennifer Soto is funded by NIH.
June 20, 2023
Congratulations to the class of 2023: Andy (Ph.D.), Cher (Ph.D.), Yu (M.S.), Diana (M.S.), Erin (B.S.), Juhi (B.S.)!
May 1, 2023
Our cancer vaccine project led by Mahdi Hasani is funded by CIRM!
April 30, 2023
Andy (Binru) Chen and his team won the first prize in two UCLA innovation competitions as the Tetra-C Therapeutics team!
April 21, 2023
Dr. Li is recognized by the Global Biomaterials Leadership Award by the Chinese Association for Biomaterials at the Society for Biomaterials conference (San Diego, April 21, 2023)
March 17, 2023
The capstone team won the best poster award!
March 16, 2023
We held a lab party to celebrate the milestones of our lab members!
February 17, 2023
Tyler Hoffman gave a presentation on his synthetic biology work, won the student podium presentation prize at the Bioengineering Research Day!
February 12, 2023
Mahdi and Negin’s work is featured by Nature Biomedical Engineering as the cover story!
December 19, 2022
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August 8, 2022
Congrats to Nagin and Mahdi for their paper accepted by Nature Biomedical Engineering!
June 24, 2022
The cover for our paper, Engineered Delivery of Dental Stem-Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles for Periodontal Tissue Regeneration, has been published to Advanced Healthcare Materials!
June 17, 2022
Congratulations to LeeAnn Li, the first MD/PhD student graduating from our group! She will start her residency at Johns Hopkins.
June 11, 2022
Congratulations to all of our graduating seniors: Nico, Raul, Natalie, Cameron, and Josephine and to Nico for being awarded the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research!
Congratulations to Yang, Jennifer and the rest of the team for the acceptance of their manuscript into Nature Materials.
April 2, 2022
Congratulations to our capstone team for the poster award!
January 29, 2022
Welcome to the new lab members: Joyce and Zeyang!
January 29, 2022
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