News
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 National University of Singapore (NUS)!
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!
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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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