January, 09, 2025
Joaquin E Leon joins us as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome Joaquin!
December, 24, 2024
Our team member, Kaleb Bierstedt, received "2024-2025 Iowa Innovation Leadership Fellowship". Well deserved and congratulations! (Two awardees from us in a single year, yeah!)
Learn Kaleb's story at "https://innovation.uiowa.edu/people/kaleb-bierstedt"
December, 24, 2024
Our team member, Garret Caltrider, received "2024-2025 Iowa Innovation Leadership Fellowship". Well deserved and congratulations!
Learn Garret's story at "https://innovation.uiowa.edu/people/garret-caltrider"
December, 15, 2024
We heard from Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering that we and our collaborators received an research excellence fund on "Organ-Specific Decellularized Extracellular Matrix for Advanced Biofabrication".
We appreciate support from the department and expect it would thrust our reseaerch on airway tissue engineering!
September, 29, 2024
Dr Xie presented his research of "Combining device and tissue engineering toward an ex vivo airway model of cystic fibrosis lung disease" on North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference 2024@Boston.
August, 02, 2024
Our work on "Dynamic measurement of airway surface liquid volume with an ex vivo trachea-chip" was highlighted as the back cover of Lab on a Chip, August, 2024. Congratulations to all authors!
November, 05, 2023
Dr. Meng-Hsuan Lin joined us as a postdoc research associate. She is a great biologist and now embarked on a new career that integrate airway biology with device/tissue engineering. Welcome on-board, Dr Lin!
October, 29, 2023
We heard from the department that Michael, Kaleb, and Garret passed their qualifying exams, a solid step towards a PhD degree. Congratulations!
October, 20, 2023
Kelab delivered a great presentation on BMES 2023 Annual Meeting @Seattle, on the topic of "Airway Organ Culture: A Model to Study Pulmonary Biology". Congratulations.
October, 20, 2023
Michael delivered a great presentation on BMES 2023 Annual Meeting @Seattle, on the topic of "Trachea-on-a-chip: Assessing mucociliary clearance on cystic fibrosis airways". Congratulations.
August, 21, 2023
Our work on "Acoustic‐Modulated, Selective Particle Deposition for Muti‐Material Additive Manufacturing" was featured as cover images on Advanced Materials Technologies 8 (19). Congratulations to all authors.
April, 20, 2023
We are on the news.
March, 17, 2023
We heard from National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) that our project on "An Engineered Surface of Mucociliary Transport for Medical Devices" was funded as a R01 award.
We deeply appreciate the support from NIH/NIBIB.
September, 22, 2022
Yuliang is interviewed by The Daily Iowan.
September, 22, 2022
Yuliang is on the UIowa Engineering News. Nice smile.
https://engineering.uiowa.edu/news-all/2022/09/ui-engineering-professors-trachea-chip-invention-help-study-lung-disease
August, 18, 2022
We heard from NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) that our project on "trachea-on-a-chip to study particle clearance" was funded as a R21 award.
We deeply appreciate the support from NIH/NHLBI.
August, 17, 2022
Fall 2022 semester starts. We have three graduate students joining this fall, they are Connor Grierson (M.S. student), Garret W Caltrider (Ph.D. student), and Kaleb C Bierstedt (Ph.D. student). Welcome!
May, 19, 2022
We heard from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) that our project on "cystic fibrosis trachea-on-a-chip" was funded as a Pilot and Feasibility Award. We deeply appreciate the support from CFF.
March, 03, 2022
The work of "Cellular and molecular architecture of submucosal glands in wild-type and cystic fibrosis pigs" was published on PNAS. Congratulations!
July, 10, 2021
Michael Scott presented his research on BMES annual conference. Good job, Michael!
August, 30, 2020
Our work on "Acidic Submucosal Gland pH and Elevated Protein Concentration Produce Abnormal Cystic Fibrosis Mucus" was highlighted by Developmental cell. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1534580720305827)
August, 30, 2020
Our work on "Acidic Submucosal Gland pH and Elevated Protein Concentration Produce Abnormal Cystic Fibrosis Mucus" was featured as the front cover of Developmental cell, Volume 54, Issue 4, 24 August 2020. Congrats!
April, 14, 2020
Our website of Pulmonary microfluidic laboratory gets online.
March, 27, 2020
Dr. Yuliang Xie has accepted a job offer from Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa. The Pulmonary microfluidic laboratory will start at August, 2020.