Chris and Michael win Northeastern’s PEAK Ascent Award!

Chris Meehan, a Chemical Engineering student, and Michael Parrish, a Bioengineering student, were recently awarded Northeastern’s PEAK Ascent award for Fall 2019. A new program, the PEAK Experiences Awards are a progressively structured sequence of opportunities designed to… Read More

James places 2nd place in Falling Walls Boston competition

James Sinoimeri, Chemical Engineering undergraduate student, placed 2nd place in the Falling Walls Boston competition with his pitch, “Breaking the Walls of cancer drug development using hypoxia-inducing cryogels (HICs)”. Falling Walls is an international forum in which scientists… Read More

Zach joins Northeastern’s NSF I-Corps Program

Zach Rogers was selected to join Northeastern University’s NSF I-Corps Program for Fall 2019 with his proposal, “Hypoxia-inducing cryogels as a fast and inexpensive technology for hypoxic cell culture conditions”. This program is designed to help scientists begin… Read More

Lauren wins Honors Early Research Award!

Lauren Gerbereux, Chemical Engineering student, was recently awarded the Northeastern University Honors Early Research Award through her research project, “Optimization of Hypoxia-Inducing Cryogels”. Congrats Lauren! More information can be found here.

Kasturi’s SEM image has been featured on the front cover page of the September issue of Advanced Healthcare Materials!

Congrats Kasturi and team (M. Rezaeeyazdi, T. Colombani, and S. A. Bencherif)! In this cover picture, a scanning electron micrograph (SEM) is shown displaying Pseudomonas aeruginosa, rod‐shaped bacteria, nested on the polymer walls of a cryogel scaffold. The… Read More

Laboratory Twitter account is now live!

The LAMP Biomaterials has just launched a Twitter account! Follow us for the latest news on our research, lab members and activities. Check it out here.

Mahboobeh successfully defends her PhD dissertation

On August 9th, 2019, Mahboobeh RezaeeYazdi defended her dissertation “Designing Injectable and Autoclavable Cryogel Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Tumor/Tissue Reconstruction”, earning her doctoral degree.  Many congratulations to Dr. RezaeeYazdi! This is a huge accomplishment that requires a tremendous amount of hard work… Read More

“Strategies to prevent dopamine oxidation and related cytotoxicity using various antioxidants and nitrogenation” published in Emergent Materials

Congratulations to Devyesh Rana and team (Thibault Colombani, Halimatu S. Mohammed, Loek J. Eggermont, Samantha Johnson, Nasim Annabi, and Sidi A. Bencherif) on their recent publication, reporting on the use of antioxidants, alone or in combination with nitrogenation,… Read More

“Autoclavable and Injectable Cryogels for Biomedical Applications” published in Advanced Healthcare Materials

Congratulations to Pierre Villard and team (Mahboobeh Rezaeeyazdi, Thibault Colombani, Kasturi Joshi‐Navare, Devyesh Rana, Adnan Memic, and Sidi A. Bencherif) on their recent publication, reporting on the engineering of robust and biomimetic cryogels that remain functional and injectable… Read More