News and Press
2020
- 04/08/2020: Dr. Fu has been selected as a Council Member for the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Special Interest Group (CMBE-SIG)!
- 03/31/2020: Samuel was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! (link)
- 03/30/2020: Dr. Fu has been elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)! (link)
- 03/17/2020: IBBL was awarded the Robert M. Caddell Memorial Award for Research, for their significant contributions to the emerging field of synthetic embryology.
2019
- 12/11/2019: Yuanyuan's paper is published in Science Advances online today! (link)
- 10/31/2019: Nature News on primate embryos grown in the lab features Dr. Fu's comment! (link)
- 09/11/2019: Yi's Nature paper is published online today! (link)
- 08/05/2019: IBBL welcomes its newest member, Samuel Byung-Deuk Lee. Welcome on board, Samuel!
- 07/26/2019: Congratulations to Sajedeh! She was just awarded the NIH T32 Fellowship from the Center for Organogenesis Training Program.
2018
- 12/12/2018: Fu co-authors a commentary on the subject of synthetic embryos in a Commentary published in Nature! (link)
- 07/04/2018: Our research on developing synthetic models of human embryogenesis is featured in a News Feature published in Nature! (link)
- 05/21/2018: Congratulations to Xufeng and Yubing. Their paper on modeling embryonic patterning of neuroectoderm tissue using human pluripotent stem cells has been published in Nature Materials!
- 03/28/2018: Xufeng won the Outstanding Poster Award from the 9th International Conference on Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology!
- 02/19/2018: Congratulations to Yue! He just won the pestigious ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, which is given in recognition of the most exceptional scholarly work produced by doctoral students at the University of Michigan.
- 01/17/2018: Dr. Fu has been selected for the George J. Huebner, Jr. Research Excellence Award from the UM College of Engineering!
- 01/10/2018: Zida has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Li! (see Group Photos)
2017
- 11/14/2017: Congratulations to Yue! He just won the Postdoctoral Fellow Shooting Star Award from the 2018 BMES - Cell and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) conference. (see Student Awards)
- 09/19/2017: Our group's research on using human pluripotent stem cells for modeling human embryonic development is highlighted by MIT Technology Review. (link)
- 09/07/2017: Congratulations to Koh Meng! His work on using long-term fluidic tumoroid culture to study the tumor invasion front is published today online by Scientific Reports. (see Publications)
- 09/06/2017: Congratulations to Yue! His Nature Communications paper on the human amniotic sac developmental model is recommended in F1000Prime as being of special significance in its field. (see Publications)
- 09/01/2017: IBBL welcomes two new Ph.D. students, Agnes M. Resto Irizarry and Sicong Wang. Welcome on board, Agnes and Sicong. (see Members)
- 08/08/2017: Congratulations to Yue! His most recent paper on using human pluripotent stem cells for modeling early human development is just officially published online by Nature Communications. (see Publications)
- 04/22/2017: Congratulations to Yi! His manuscript on using a microfluidic angiogenesis platform to study Notch signaling is just accepted by Lab on a Chip. (see Publications)
- 04/21/2017: Congratulations to Xufeng! His manuscript on using the acoustic tweezing cytometry for enhancing osteogenesis of human mesenchymal stem cells is just accepted by Biomaterials. (see Publications)
- 04/12/2017: Our group's cell mechanics research has been highlighted in the Technology Feature by Nature. (link)
2016
- 12/14/2016: Yue has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Shao! (see Group Photos)
- 12/12/2016: Congratulations to Yue! His manuscript on in vitro modeling of amniogenesis using human pluripotent stem cells is just published by Nature Materials. (see Group Photos and Publications)
- 12/08/2016: Undergraduate student Parker Haffey working at IBBL won the Best Poster Award for the RISE program! (see Group Photos)
- 11/17/2016: Shinuo has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Weng! (see Group Photos)
- 11/11/2016: Congratulations to Yue! He just won the Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding Ph.D. Research. (see Student Awards, Group Photos, and Mechanical Engineering News)
- 11/10/2016: Fu's paper published to Nature Materials.
- 10/04/2016: Li receives Baxter Young Investigator Award.
- 09/25/2016: Fu's research featured as cover story of two Small issues.
- 08/19/2016: Congratulations to Zida! He was selected to receive the Baxter Young Investigator Award (Tier 1). (see Student Awards)
- 06/13/2016: Congratulations to Zeta! His manuscript on developing the vacuum-pressure accelerated movement (V-PAM) technology for accelerating biofluid filling in complex microfluidic networks is accepted by Small. (see Publications)
- 05/30/2016: Congratulations to Shinuo and Yue! Their manuscript on single-cell mechanical homeostasis is just published by Nature Materials. (see Publications)
- 05/23/2016: IBBL alumnus Prof. Weiqiang Chen has won the American Heart Association Scientist Development Award!
- 05/17/2016: Fu's research featured as cover story of two journals.
- 05/04/2016: Congratulations to Zida! His manuscript on developing a miniaturized device for precise measurements of dynamic blood clot retraction forces is accepted by Small. (see Publications)
- 03/02/2016: Congratulations to Yue! He was selected to receive the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. (see Student Awards)
- 02/29/2016: Congratulations to Yubing! His PhD thesis dissertation has been chosen for Honorable Mention for the Rackham Graduate School’s 2015 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards. (see Student Awards)
- 02/27/2016: Congratulations to Shinuo! She was selected for the 2016 Ivor K. McIvor Award. (see Student Awards)
- 01/29/2016: Congratulations to Raymond and other co-authors! His manuscript on developing a microfluidic elasticity microcytometer for multiparametric biomechanical and biochemical phenotypic profiling of live single cancer cells is accepted by Small. (see Publications)
- 01/26/2016: Congratulations to Yi! His manuscript on a microengineered 3D biomimetic model to study leukemic cell induced bone marrow angiogenesis is accepted by Advanced Healthcare Materials. (see Publications)
2015
- 11/05/2015: 2014-2015 Mechanical Engineering Annual Report released. Our microfluidic systems immunology research is highlighted! (see Y2014-2015 Report)
- 10/28/2015: Our collaborative research with Dr. Deborah L. Gumucio's lab is published in Stem Cell Report! (see Publications)
- 07/09/2015: Congratulations to Xiang! His manuscript on a desktop aligner for multilayer assembly of PDMS-based microfluidic devices is accepted by Review of Scientific Instruments. (see Publications)
- 06/17/2015: Congratulations to Yubing for his successful PhD thesis defense! (see Group Photos)
- 05/15/2015: Congratulations to Zeta! His manuscript on using highly integrated microfluidics and AlphaLISA technology for rapid, quantitative immunoassays is accepted by Scientific Reports. (see Publications)
- 04/06/2015: Chance encounter leads to use of life-saving blood analysis device.
- 04/06/2015: Congratulations to Shinuo! She just won the Rackham Summer Award! (see Student Awards)
- 03/14/2015: Congratulations to Yubing! He just received a tenure-track faculty offer from UMass Amherst! He will start his exciting journey and future endeavors as an assistant professor later this year!
- 02/26/2015: Congratulations to Weiqiang! He just won the prestigious ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, which is given in recognition of the most exceptional scholarly work produced by doctoral students at the University of Michigan. (see Student Awards)
- 02/19/2015: Congratulations to Yue! He was selected for the 2015 Ivor K. McIvor Award. (see Student Awards)
- 02/18/2015: Congratulations to Shinuo! She was awarded the Barbour Scholarship from the UM Rackham Graduate School. (see Student Awards)
- 02/03/2015: Congratulations to Yubing! He was awarded the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, with the recognition of Special Award of Excellence. (see Student Awards)
- 01/28/2015: Congratulations to Yubing, Yue, and Jianming! Their manuscripts were accepted by Biophysical Journal and Biomaterials! (see Publications)
- 01/21/2015: Congratulations to Yi! He has won the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship. (see Student Awards)
2014
- 10/07/2014: MCubed grant precedes larger NIH award of $3 million.
- 10/01/2014: Congratulations to Zida and Jianming! Both of them have successfully passed ME Ph.D. qualifying exam.
- 09/09/2014: Congratulations to Xiang! His review paper on functional phenotyping of blood cells was accepted by Trends in Biotechnology! (see Publications)
- 08/20/2014: Congratulations to Yubing! His ACS Chemical Neuroscience paper was selected as the front cover story for 2014 Aug. 20 issue of ACS Chemical Neuroscience. (see Publications)
- 05/28/2014: Congratulations to Yubing! His manuscript was just accepted by ACS Chemical Neuroscience! (see Publications)
- 05/06/2014: Congratulations to Xiang! His manuscript was just accepted by Lab on Chip! (see Publications)
- 04/20/2014: ASME Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine (JNEM), Special Topic on: Nanoscale materials, devices, and systems for biosensing, biomanipulation, and biofabrication. (see Call for Papers)
- 04/14/2014: How a Silly Putty ingredient could advance stem cell therapies. (see Michigan News, Detroit Local 4 News, Crain's Detroit Business, ABC 7 Sarasota - WWSB, ABC News Radio, Headlines & Global News, Red Orbit, The Doctor Will See You Now, Consultant, Guardian Liberty Voice, The Australian, International Business Times UK, The Times of India, Israel Herald, Business Standard, Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinelt, Medical News Today)
- 04/04/2014: Congratulations to Weiqiang! He just received a tenure-track faculty offer from the New York Univ.! He will start his exciting journey as an assistant professor from this Sept.
- 04/03/2014: Congratulations to Yubing! He just won the 2014 Robert M. Caddell Memorial Award for Research together with Dr. Fu!
- 04/03/2014: Congratulations to Yue! He was just awarded the 2014 Alexander Azarkhin Scholarship!
- 03/04/2014: Congratulations to Yubing! His manuscript was just accepted by Nature Materials! (see Publications)
- 01/28/2014: Dr. Fu was selected for the Mechanical Engineering Department Outstanding Achievement Award!
- 01/14/2014: Weiqiang had just won the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad!
2013
- 12/31/2013: Congratulations to Yue! He was just awarded the Keystone Symposia Future of Science Fund Scholarship.
- 12/26/2013: Congratulations to Yue! His manuscript was just accepted in Integrative Biology! (see Publications)
- 11/16/2013: Congratulations to Weiqiang! He has just won the UM CoE Richard F. & Eleanor A. Towner Prize for Outstanding Ph.D. Research.
- 10/18/2013: Congratulations to Xiang for passing the Ph.D. qualify exam!
- 10/14/2013: Congratulations to Yue on his review paper accepted in Advanced Materials! (see Publications)
- 08/05/2013: Congratulations to Weiqiang! He has been just awarded the Baxter Young Investigator Award as well as the UM Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant!
- 07/10/2013: Congratulations to Weiqiang! He has been just awarded the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship!
- 06/28/2013: Congratulations to Yubing on our collaborative paper published in Scientific Reports with Dr. Cheri Deng's lab! (see Publications)
- 05/21/2013: Congratulations to Weiqiang, for winning the Best Student Seminar Speaker Award for the MBSTP Seminar Series!
- 03/20/2013: Fu's research featured as front cover story of three journals. (see UM ME News)
- 02/08/2013: Congratulations to Weiqiang! He has just won the UM CoE Richard F. & Eleanor A. Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement.
- 02/06/2013: Congratulations to Weiqiang and Yue for their great achievements in the ASME 2013 2nd Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB2013)! They have won the Outstanding Poster Award (Weiqiang) and the Outstanding Student Podium Talk Award (Yue) from the conference.
- 02/05/2013: Congratulations to Yubing! His paper is selected as the front cover story for 2013, Issue 3 of Integrative Biology. (see Publications)
- 02/01/2013: Rounding up rare cells: Engineers and doctors connect to solve major diagnosis challenges (see UM Engineering News)
- 01/22/2013: Congratulations to Weiqiang! His Small and ACS Nano papers are both selected as the front cover story. (see Publications)
2012
- 12/15/2012: Congratulations to Yubing on our Integrative Biology paper!
- 12/03/2012: Congratulations to Weiqiang on our Advanced Healthcare Materials paper!
- 11/29/2012: Congratulations to Weiqiang on our ACS Nano paper!
(Note: this paper is highlighted by UM Homepage, UM News Service, UM Health System, UM ME Dept. News, C&EN Online Story, ACS Nano Podcast, Medical News Today, MediLexicon, ScienceDaily, PhysOrg, and Bio-Medicine)
- 11/19/2012: Congratulations to Weiqiang. He is selected by UMich to compete for the prestigious HHMI International Graduate Student Research Fellowship!
- 11/06/2012: Congratulations to Weiqiang. He has been selected as a winner for the poster session of Microfluidics in the 7th Annual UM Engineering Graduate Symposium.
- 10/02/2012: Congratulations to Yue for passing the Ph.D. qualify exam!
- 08/15/2012: Congratulations to Raymond and Shinuo on our Integrative Biology paper!
- 07/11/2012: IBBL receives funding from National Science Foundation to support research on nanofluidics for single molecule analysis and biosensing.
- 07/11/2012: Congratulations to Joel and Weiqiang on our Lab on Chip paper! Our first microfluidic immunophenotyping paper.
- 06/28/2012: Congratulations to Yubing on our Langmuir paper!
- 06/20/2012: Our Lab on Chip paper was selected as one of the top 10% of all Lab on a Chip articles published this year. To have achieved this category, the article is deemed by the reviewers and the editors to show a breakthrough in device technology, methodology or demonstrate important new results enabled by miniaturisation. See Lab on Chip Top 10%.
- 06/19/2012: Congratulations to Weiqiang on our Small paper!
- 06/11/2012: Our stem cell research is highlighted in UM ME Dept News, and UM CoE News.
- 06/05/2012: Dr. Fu is awarded American Heart Association Scientist Development Award.
- 05/21/2012: IBBL receives funding support from UM-SJTU Biomedical Technology Collaboration for microfluidic immunophenotyping research. See University Record.
- 05/21/2012: IBBL receives funding from UM Comprehensive Cancer Center Prostate SPORE to support pilot research on circulating tumor cells (CTCs).
- 05/11/2012: Dr. Fu is awarded National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
- 04/24/2012: Our ACS Nano paper is highlighted in C&EN Online Story.
- 04/18/2012: Congratulations to Yubing on our PLoS ONE paper! This work is also highlighted by ESC & iPSC News.
- 04/17/2012: Congratulations to Weiqiang. He was awarded a grant from the Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research!
- 04/16/2012: Congratulations to Yubing and Shinuo on our WIREs Nanomedicine & Nanobiotechnology review paper!
- 04/09/2012: Congratulations to Weiqiang on our ACS Nano paper! This work is highlighted by ESC & iPSC News.
- 02/29/2012: The Fu lab to present 2 orals at 2012 ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC 2012).
- 02/24/2012: Congratulations to Raymond on our Lab on Chip paper!
- 01/23/2012: Weiqiang's Lab on Chip paper was the top ten most accessed articles during the months of Nov. and Dec. of 2011.
- 01/01/2012: IBBL receives funding from Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) to support pilot research on single-cell analysis of dendritic cells after cardiopulmonary bypass.
2011
- 12/08/2011: Congratulations to Jenn and Raymond on our Lab on Chip paper!
- 11/23/2011: Congratulations to Yubing for winning the 2011-2012 Rackham International Student Fellowship!
- 11/15/2011: Congratulations to Yubing. He is selected by UMich to compete for the prestigious HHMI International Graduate Student Research Fellowship!
- 11/04/2011: Congratulations to Weiqiang and Raymond on our Lab on Chip paper!
- 10/09/2011: Congratulations to Shinuo, Weiqiang, and Yubing, for passing the Ph.D. qualify exam!
- 10/01/2011: Congratulations to Jenn for winning 2011 BMES Shu Chien Symposium Travel Award!
- 10/01/2011: Congratulations to Weiqiang for winning MicroTAS 2011 Student Travel Grant!
- 09/01/2011: Congratulations to Shinuo on our Biomaterials article!
- 09/01/2011: Congratulations to Raymond, for taking a faculty position at the City Univ. of Hong Kong. We will miss you, Ray!
- 08/14/2011: A new Ph.D. student, Yue Shao, joined the Fu Lab; Welcome, Yue!
- 08/01/2011: IBBL receives funding from National Science Foundation to support research on mechanobiology in human stem cells.
- 07/31/2011: The Fu lab to present 2 orals & 1 poster at MicroTAS 2011 (8% acceptance rate for oral presentation).
- 07/31/2011: The Fu lab to present 2 orals & 1 poster at BMES 2011.
- 06/31/2011: Congratulations to Jenn, for her 2nd place in the Ph.D. Student Paper Competition at the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference.
- 05/31/2011: Congratulations to Jenn, for her Best Poster Award in the 2011 UM Annual Symposium of the Microfluidics in Biomedical Sciences Training Program.
- 05/2011: IBBL research highlighted in 2010 UM Mechanical Engineering Annual Report!
2010
- 10/08/2010: Jenn passed her PhD qualify exam. Congratulations to Jenn!
- 10/01/2010: Our Nature Methods work is highlighted in Popular Science!
- 09/01/2010: IBBL welcomes his newest members. Raymond and Yubing, welcome on board!
- 09/01/2010: Stem cells feel the difference, by Amnon Buxboim and Dennis Discher, Nature Methods, vol. 7, 695, 2010. (link)
- 09/01/2010: Our Nature Methods paper is published as the cover story. (link)
- 08/02/2010: New insights into how stem cells determine what tissue to become, by UMich News Service, ScienceDaily, EurekAlert by AAAS, PhysOrg, etc.
- 08/02/2010: Fu published in Nature Methods, by UMich ME Dept.
- 08/02/2010: Mechanical regulation effects stem cell development, adhesion, by Penn News.
- 06/10/2010: Group webpages have been updated.
- 06/01/2010: Chen Chen has joined IBBL as an undergraduate research assistant.
- 05/25/2010: Our manuscript about mechanical regulation of stem cell differentiation has been accepted by Nature Methods!
- 05/24/2010: IBBL welcomes his newest doctoral student. Weiqiang, welcome on board!
- 05/20/2010: IBBL has moved in 2009 G.G. Brown, a completely renovated new lab.
2005 - 2009
- 09/01/2009: IBBL is established in the Mechanical Engineering Dept. at UMich.
- 07/22/2007: Senturia prize winner seeks new challenges, by MEMS@MIT Newsletter.
- 04/11/2010: Dr. Fu named recipient of 2007 Peake Awards, by Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT.
- 02/21/2007: Microsieve device promises to speed up separation, sorting of proteins, by ScienceDaily, EurekAlert by AAAS, PhysOrg.com, etc.
- 02/07/2007: MIT improves protein sorting with a new microchip, by MIT News Office / MIT Tech Talk.
- 02/2007: Going their separate ways, Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 2, 32, 2007. (link)
- 02/2007: A fork in the nano-road, by Robert Austin, Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 2, 79-80, 2007. (link)
- 09/11/2006: MIT molecular sieve advances protein research, by MIT News Office.
- 05/12/2006: Business mixes with conscience in $100K, by Boston Business Journal.
- 12/06/2005: Nanotechnology for membranes, filters and sieves, by Jan C.T. Eijkel and Albert van den Berg, Lab Chip, vol. 6, 19-23, 2006. (link)
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