2025:
January - Mihika Desai and Shreya Prakash join the lab as undergraduate researchers - Welcome!
January - Dean and Jun’s original research article on high aspect ratio microparticles is accepted in ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering!
January - Tuba presents her research at the CMBE Conference in Carlsbad and receives the graduate travel award!
2024:
September - Tuba’s review article, in collaboration with the groups of Dr. Shelly Peyton (Tufts) and Dr. David Mooney (Harvard) is accepted in the Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering!
August - Nicole Mertens joins the lab as a new PhD student - welcome!
July - Taimoor receives the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35 MIRA) from NIH / NIGMS. The $1.9 million award will fund research on using biomaterials to understand cell behavior during wound healing.
May - Maaz Khurram joins the lab as a new PhD student - welcome!
May - We are super excited to host Zhiyuan and Kyle as Purdue SURF scholars over the summer!
April - Dr. Jun Kim joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow - welcome!
April - Tuba presents at the BME Grad Symposium and receives the audience choice award!
April - Dean Stornello receives the 2024 Bruce Helfert Memorial Award and Kyle Heaton receives the Havel-Decker scholarship! Congratulations!
January - Ellie and Leia’s original research article describing granular hydrogels for VML treatment is accepted in Advanced Healthcare Materials!
January - A review paper on implantable biomaterials to treat volumetric muscle loss is published in the Young Investigator’s issue of Cells Tissue Organs! Co-authors include undergraduate students Leia Schiltz, Elizabeth Grivetti, and Ellie Tanner.
January - Tuba Marjan joins the lab as its first PhD student - welcome!
January - Welcoming new undergraduate researchers Ashton Cotton, Alyson Owen, Abhinav Krishnan, Gianna Stinsa, Zhiyuan Chen, and Ultan Fallon to the group.
2023:
October - The lab’s first pre-print is online at BioRxiv! Work co-led by undergraduate students Ellie Tanner and Leia Schiltz.
September - Taimoor receives the Dr. James R. Neff Research Excellence Award from the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation!
August - Welcoming Kyle Heaton and Nikita Rao to the group as undergraduate researchers, and Tuba Marjan as a rotating PhD student from the Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences program.
May - We are super excited to host Ellie, Nikki, and Leia as Purdue SURF scholars over the summer!
April - Congrats to Niharika for getting accepted into the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute summer REU program!
March - Congrats to Trevor for getting accepted into the Stark Neurosciences Research Institute summer REU program at IU Medicine!
March - Dean and Niharika receive Charles Sullivan Outstanding Sophomore Scholarships - Congrats!!
January - The lab is among 10 of a total 60 applicants to receive a competitive internal seed grant to establish collaborations between Purdue West Lafayette and Purdue Indianapolis (aka IUPUI)
2022:
December - We welcome Ronith Dasari, Leia Schiltz, and Trevor Sheehan who will join the lab as undergraduate researchers in Spring ‘23.
August - We welcome Nikki Kulkarni, Dean Stornello, Elizabeth Grivetti, and Niharika Narra who will join the lab as undergraduate researchers this Fall!
August - Exciting times ahead as we start setting up the lab!
June - We welcome Ellie Tanner who will join the lab as an undergraduate researcher in the Fall!
June - We are actively recruiting graduate students. Interested candidates should contact Dr. Qazi directly via email.
May - We are excited to launch the Biomaterials and Tissue Regeneration Lab at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University in August 2022!!
April - Dr. Qazi has accepted an offer to start as Assistant Professor of biomedical engineering at Purdue University!