November 15, 2025
The Wang Lab attended the 10th Notre Dame-Purdue Soft Matter Symposium! James gave a great presentation on his work, while Gaeun and Yichen won the best poster award! Congratulations!
September 26, 2025
James and Farbod won the best poster award at 11th Annual Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Symposium! Congratulations!
August 20, 2025
Dr. Wang won the 2025 ACS PMSE Early Investigator Award!
July 28, 2025
Gaeun won the Harper Cancer Research Institute’s Interdisciplinary Interface Training Program (IITP), and congratulations!
July 1, 2025
Dr. Wang named standing member of NIH Innovations in Nanosystems and Nanotechnology Study Section. As a member, Wang will play a critical role in shaping federal funding priorities for biomedical research. Check out the news on the College of Engineering website!
July 1, 2025
Dr. Wang has been named Keating Crawford Collegiate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering—a prestigious title awarded by the university and college in recognition of excellence in research, teaching and service. Check out the news on the College of Engineering website!
June 19, 2025
James won the Edison Innovation Fellowship! This fellowship will provide the opportunity to PhD student to learn how to generate impact from research innovations, entrepreneurship, and deep-tech commercialization. Congrats!
June 18, 2025
Dr. Wang was invited to speak at the 2025 GRC Cancer Nanotechnology in Italy and share our work on chiral structure for nanomedicine design!
June 12, 2025
Yao won the MSE Fellowship for his work on “NIR GQD Biosensors”. Congrats!
May 8, 2025
Gaeun’s research was selected as one of only four oral presentations out of 170 abstracts submitted to Cancer Research Day at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center!
April 14, 2025
Gaeun gave an excellent presentation at the 2025 Harper Cancer Research Day and she won the Exceptional Mentor Award from HCRI, congratulations!
April 11, 2025
Farbod won the 2025 BIPH Summer Graduate Fellowship, congratulations!
April 11, 2025
Gaeun won the 2025-2026 Berry Family Foundation Fellowship award, congratulations!
April 12, 2025
Wang Lab attended SFB 2025 in Chicago and presented our recent exciting work!
April 3, 2025
Courtney successfully defended her master thesis! Congrats!
March 31, 2025
James delivered a great talk on his project, “Stimulative piezoelectric nanofibrous scaffolds for enhanced small extracellular vesicle production in 3D cultures” at BIPH Symposium! Great job!
March 20, 2025
Hyunsu’s paper won “2024 Outstanding CBE Paper: Soft Matter & Nanomaterials”! Congratulations on an impressive piece of research. Check out this work on A Bioinert Hydrogel Framework for Precision 3D Cell Cultures: Advancing Automated High-Content and High-Throughput Drug Screening published in Small Science
February 14, 2025
Congrats Yichen for winning the BELS Supplemental Professional Development Award! This award allows Yichen to extend his work on photodynamic therapy using graphene nanotherapeutics to translational applications.
February 10, 2025
Runyao has had a successful PhD defense! Congrats, Dr. Zhu!
January 27, 2025
Our “Emerging Investigator” article, entitled “Stimulative piezoelectric nanofibrous scaffolds for enhanced small extracellular vesicle production in 3D cultures”, is featured in Biomaterials Science Blog. Check it out on the journal blog!
January 14, 2025
Hyunsu has been awarded the Scientific Artificial Intelligent (SAI) Fellowship to empower his work on “Biomimetic Hydrogel-based Platform for High-yield Engineered Organoid Culture for and High-Content Drug Testing” with AI tools!
January 5, 2025
Dr. Wang won the 2025 BMES CMBE Rising Star Award and shared our work at the Award Talk!
December 13, 2024
Congrats to Gaeun for the poster award at 2024 COSE research symposium!
November 5, 2024
Our new paper “Stimulative Piezoelectric Nanofibrous Scaffolds for Enhanced Small Extracellular Vesicle Production in 3D Cultures.” is featured as Emerging Investigator Award in Biomaterials Science, along with a back cover!
October 30, 2024
We have had a successful AIChE 2024! Our lab is well presented.
October 5, 2024
Congrats to Gaeun for the poster award at Annual ND-Purdue Soft Matter Symposium! And thanks to all group members participating in this event!
September 27, 2024
Gaeun and Hyunsu gave excellent talks at SFB 2024 regional meeting!
July 16, 2024
Tiago won the MSE Fellowship for his work on “Biomimetic Hydrogel-based Platform for Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis Models”. Congrats!
May 22, 2024
Hyunsu has been awarded the Leiva Fellowship from BIPH for his work on “Biomimetic Hydrogel-based Platform for High-yield Engineered Organoid Culture for and High-Content Drug Testing”. Congrats!
May 20, 2024
Gaeun’s new paper is featured in ACS Applied Bio Material, along with a nice supplementary cover “Homebound journey: An exosome returns to its cellular origins“!
April 14, 2024
Gaeun received an award on Cancer Research Day of HCRI and gave a great talk.
April 4, 2024
Courtney received Kaneb Center Outstanding TA Awards! Congrats!
March 21, 2024
We have had a great time at ACS Spring 2024, for both science and fun.
February 9, 2024
Our recent review “Interplay of graphene–DNA interactions: Unveiling sensing potential of graphene materials“, is featured by @AIP_Publishing and @AppliedPhysRev in the collection of “New Carbon Materials”.
January 8, 2024
Prof. Wang receives NSF CAREER award, one of the most prestigious honors awarded to early-career faculty, to Engineer Chiral Nanoscale Interactions for Enhancing Nanomaterial Transport and Uptake in Tissue and at Biointerfaces!
December 8, 2023
Hyunsu gave an awesome talk at IEEE NANOMED 2023 on his work regarding 3D culture for drug screening.
November 7, 2023
Hyunsu gave an excellent talk at AIChE 2023 on his work regarding chirality-enhanced nanocarrier transport.
October 7, 2023
Congrats to James for the poster award at Annual ND-Purdue Soft Matter Symposium.
October 6, 2023
Congrats to Runyao for the great oral presentation at Annual ND CBE Graduate Research Symposium.
September 7, 2023
We receive a NIH NCI R21 to develop “A Scalable Continuous Production Platform for Large-Scale Manufacturing of Therapeutic Exosomes” by integrating our work with the technology from our collaborator @ChangLab_ND !
August 18, 2023
The Wang Lab is awarded with Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA), which supports us to develop a convergent bioengineering platform based on biomimetic materials to advance multifunctional nanomedicine! Check out our story in the official announcement!
July 1, 2023
The Wang Lab won the STIR award by @NDengineering and @NDscience! Look forward to working with our interdisciplinary team @ChangLab_ND, @XinLu_NotreDame and @DelValleLab on “Reprogramming the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) against cancer with smart combinatorial therapeutic exosomes”! Check out the news from College of Engineering!
June 15, 2023
Our new paper on “Chiral Graphene Quantum Dots Enhanced Drug Loading into Small Extracellular Vesicles” featured in ACS Nano, along with a cool supplementary cover.
June 13, 2023
Our new review paper on biomaterial-enabled 3D cell culture technologies for extracellular vesicle manufacturing by graduate student James Johnston and undergrad Trevor Stone is featured on the cover of Biomaterials Science! Check it out here: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/BM/D3BM00469D
April 17, 2023
Hyunsu has been awarded a 2023 BIPH Summer Graduate Fellowship, working on 3D spheroid culture platform for high-throughput drug screening. Great job!
April 6, 2023
Hyunsu won the Best Poster Award of Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health 2023 Symposium! Congrats!
April 5, 2023
James received Kaneb Center Outstanding TA Awards! Congrats!
November 8, 2022
The collaborative team including the Wang Lab received a grant from the NSF-funded Center for Bioanalytic Metrology (CBM) to work on a project “A High-Throughput Gel Droplet Organoid Drug Screening Platform”! Thanks to CBM for supporting our work!
September 23, 2022
The Wang Lab presented at CBE Graduate Symposium! Well done!
August 16, 2022
The Wang Lab received Berthiaume Institute awards 2022 Discovery Funding to work on the project, “A high throughput and high efficiency platform for therapeutic exosome production and evaluation” !
January 10, 2022
James is named as a MERITS fellow!
January 1, 2022
The Wang Lab received a grant from the NSF-funded Center for Bioanalytic Metrology (CBM) to work on “Smart miniature cell culture platform with PAT for suspension cells”!
August 27, 2021
This is our first group meeting in person! Welcome Youwen to join us!
February 13 , 2021
The Wang Lab received American Cancer Society Award to work on 3D tumor models for drug development. Thanks to Harper Cancer Research Institute for this opportunity!
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