05/03/2018
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| Congratulation to Jessica Smith, Maria Hudock for winning 2018
Erickson Discovery Grants and Sarah Knappman for winning COE REU
summer research grant.
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03/31/2018
|
| Gloria Kim's citrate chemical and mechanical regulation on nerve
regeneration paper was accepted by "Biomaterials".
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10/12/2017
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| News reports on our biodegradable optical fiber work in "Biomaterials".
PSU
news; BIG
10 news; Medgadget.com.
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10/05/2017
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| Congratulation to Gloria Kim who has successfully defended her
PhD dissertation.
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08/28/2017
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| Congratulation to the following students.
Graduate students, Dingying Shan, Chuying Ma both received
CAB-BM Young Investigator Merit Award at
the 254th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting held
in Washing DC. They both presented at the ACS Symposium of Biomaterials
Science and Translational Medicine.
Graduate student, Qiyao Li recieved Best
Poster Award at
the 254th American Chemical Society National Meeting. (only
3 poster awards out of nearly 200 posters)
Summer REU student, Kelly Miller won the first place
in the poster competition out of 65 posters of the
PSU Multi-Campus REU program.
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04/28/2017
|
| Congratulation to Jimin Kim to receive Leighton Riess Graduate
Fellowship in Engineering.
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03/03/2017
|
| Yang laboratory has published 100 papers (92 journal articles
and 8 book chapters) as of 3/3/2017. Many thanks to all our collaborators,
current and past students and postdocs.
|
12/17/2016
|
| Congratulations to Julianne Baker and Hui Xu on their new co-op
jobs!
Julianne Baker, a junior in biomedical engineering with a minor
in engineering leadership development and Hui Xu, a senior in
biomedical engineering, will be participating in co-ops at Bristol-Myers
Squibb and Johnson & Johnson, starting in January 2017. Julianne
joined the lab in May 2016 and Hui joined the lab in January 2016.
Both will be able to apply their technical skills and conceptual
knowledge to real industry situations. Congratulations again!
Also, congratulations to undergraduate students, Ye Zhu and William
Tz-Je Su on receiving PSU College of Engineering Research Initiative
(CERI) awards to work in TBBL in Spring 2017.
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11/24/2016
|
| In collaboration with Prof. Cheng Dong, the immune-cell mediated
cancer drug delivery work was accepted by Small.
PSU
News,
NSF weekly banner and highlight
|
09/01/2016
|
| Congratulation to Jimin Kim whose sweat chloride sensing paper
was just accepted by "Chemical Science".
News: PSU
News; Science
Daily, Phys.org,
Futurity
(Image of the day).
NIBIB news.
|
04/13/2016
|
| TBBL is proud of supporting all our undergraduate
student researchers.
Congratulations to Demetrius Harris for winning "2016 Undergraduate
Exhibition Award" the third place in Engineering.
Congratulations to John Fadel for having been selected for PPG
Undergraduate Research Fellowship for Summer 2016.
Congratulations to Samantha Kirk for having been selected for
the summer 2016 Erickson Discovery Grant.
Congratulations to Brady Goulden for his $1000 award from Office
of Science Engagement at PSU.
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02/19/2016
|
| Scaffold degradation modeling work was featured on IE
Magzine. Congratulation to collaborators Dr. Li Zeng at Texas
A&M and Dr. Xinwei Deng at Virginia Tech.
|
01/31/2016
|
| Congratulation to Jinshan and all co-authors, the work on antibacterial
and antifungal bioglue was accepted by Biomaterials.
|
12/17/2015
|
| Dr. Jian Yang was elected to the American
Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
College of Fellows Class of 2016. Congratulations. News
release (01/25/16)
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12/16/2015
|
| Congratulation to Kevin Rahn and Demetrius Harris for being selected
to receive a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) award
through the College of Engineering Research Initiative (CERI) for
the spring term of 2016.
|
08/26/2015
|
| "Fluorescence imaging enabled poly(Lactide-co-glycolide)"
was accepted by Acta Biomaterialia.
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08/26/2015
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| "Designing
Next-Generation Biomaterials". Dr Yang on QMed News.
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08/26/2015
|
| Wecome Qiyao Li joining our group to pursue her PhD.
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05/09/2015
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| Dr. Yang is promoted to the rank of professor,
effective July 1, 2015.
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05/05/2015
|
| Congratulations to Demetrius Harris on receiving 2015 the Committee
on Institutional Cooperation Summer Research Opportunity Program
(CIC-SROP) fellowship.
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04/17/2015
|
| Congratulations to Sara Orr on her receiving 2015 Erickson Discovery
Grant for undergraduate researchers.
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03/23/2015
|
| Congratulations to Samantha Kirk on her receiving 2015 PPG Undergraduate
Research Fellowship in Materials.
|
03/15/2015
|
| Yixue's review on circulating cell-mediated drug delivery was
accepted by "ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering".
Nice job.
|
02/13/2015
|
| Congratulations to Gloria on her winning Penn State Student Leadership
Award!
|
10/24/2014
|
| The manuscript titled "Development of Injectable Citrate-based
Bioadhesive Bone Implants" was accepted by " Journal
of Materials Chemistry B".
|
10/15/2014
|
| The manuscript titled "Citric Acid-based Hydroxyapatite Composites
Scaffolds Enhance Calvarial Regeneration" was accepted by "Scientific
Reports".
|
10/09/2014
|
| Huck news report: "Novel
chemistry turns conventional polymers into biomedical supermaterials".
|
09/11/2014
|
| The collaborative work with Prof. Kytai Nguyen titled "In-situ
reendothelialization via multifunctional nano-scaffolds" was
accepted by ACS Nano.
|
08/26/2014
|
| Congratulations to Sara Orr and Madeline Ferraro on winning College
of Engineering Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) grants
for Fall 14 and Spring 15.
|
08/19/2014
|
| "Anti-microbial evaluation on citrate polymers" paper
was featured on Frontiers
Publisher website hompage.
|
05/02/2014
|
| Congratulations to Spencer Seipt, Carina Chu, Samuel Vilchez,
Bardi Jahanshahi, Grace Warkulwiz on receiving their College of
Engineering Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Grant for
Summer 2014.
|
03/25/2014
|
| Dr. Yang was appointed as an Associate Editor for "Frontiers
in Biomaterials".
|
03/03/2014
|
| Congratulations to Zack. His paper titled "Development of
Intrinsically Photoluminescent and Photostable Polylactones"
was accepted by "Advanced Materials".
|
2/18/2014
|
| The article titled "Design
strategies for fluorescent biodegradable polymeric biomaterials"
has been selected as a Most
Accessed Manuscript for 2013 for the Journal of
Materials Chemistry B.
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2/6/2014
|
| Yang lab on news. Link
1, Link
2
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1/30/2014
|
| Welcome undergraduate students, Spencer Seipt, Madeline Annabele
Ferraro, John Fadel joining TBBL.
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12/26/2013
|
| Together with Dr. Kytai Nguyen at UTA, Dr. Yang received a multi-PI
NIH/NHLBI grant to develop nanoscaffolds for in situ endothelium
regeneration.
|
11/27/2013
|
| Together with Dr. JT Hsieh at UTSW, Dr. Yang received a multi-PI
NIH/NCI grant to develop nanotechnology for prostate cancer diagnosis
and treatment.
|
11/17/2013
|
| Congratulations to Jinshan. The paper titled "Click chemistry
plays a dual role in biodegradble polymer design" was accepted
by "Advanced Materials".
|
09/06/2013
|
| Congratulations to Richard and all collaborators, the paper titled
"Fabrication and characterization of biomimetic multichanneled
crosslinked-urethane doped polyester nerve guides" was accepted
by "JBMR A".
|
08/19/2013
|
| Welcome new graduate students, Tony, Dingying, Yixue joining TBBL.
|
08/13/2013
|
| Congratulation to Richard, Liang, and Chang. The paper titiled
"Synthesis and Characterization of Biomimetic Citrate-Based
Biodegradable Composites" was accepted by "JBMR
A".
|
07/25/2013
|
| Dr. Yang was invited to attend a NSF-sponsored "Advanced
Biomanufacturing" workshop.
|
07/24/2013
|
| Congratulation to Zhiwei. His paper titiled "Dual Growth
Factor Releasing Multi-functional Nanofibers for Wound Healing"
was accepted by "Acta Biomaterialia ".
|
06/07/2013
|
| Congratulation to Dipendra Gyawali. His paper on "Fluorescence
Imaging Enabled Biodegradable Photostable Polymeric Micelles"
was accepted by "Advanced Healthcare Materials".
|
04/18/2013
|
| iCMBA (adhesive biomaterials) reported by "Project
Design", a Japanese business magazine.
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03/18/2013
|
| Dr. Yang receives an NSF grant through a collaboration with
Dr. Li Zeng at UTA. This grant supports quality profiling study
on tissue engineering scaffold fabrication.
|
03/13/2013
|
| Dr. Yang serves on the editorial board for "Journal
of Analytical & Molecular Techniques".
|
02/12/2013
|
| Congratulation to Yi. His paper on fluorescence imaging enabled
urethane-doped citrate-based biodegradable elastomers was accepted
by "Biomaterials".
|
01/22/2013
|
| "Mussel
Compound Adds Muscle to Surgical Bioadhesives", a news
report from Materials Research Society (MRS).
|
01/10/2013
|
| Bioadhesive
study on the PSU news.
|
01/10/2013
|
| Welcome Tony Bunce and Surge Kalaba joining our lab.
|
10/27/2012
|
| The paper on injectable PEGMC/HA orthopedic composites was
highlighted on "Biomaterial
Science Blog"
|
10/16/2012
|
| Congratulation to Reza. His paper entitled "Design Strategies
and Applications of Tissue Bioadhesives" was accepted by
"Macromolecular Bioscience".
|
10/05/2012
|
| Congratulation to Yi Zhang. His paper entitled "Design
strategies for fluorescent biodegradable polymeric biomaterials"
was accepted by "Journal of Materials Chemistry B".
|
08/16/2012
|
| Congratulation to Reza. His paper regarding "Injectable
biodegradable adhesive polymers for sutureless wound closure"
is available online for "Biomaterials".
|
08/07/2012
|
| We announce the birth of Tranformative Biomaterials and Biotechnology
Laboratory (TBBL) at The Penn State University.
|
05/17/2012
|
| Author
interview by the journal "Gastrointestinal Endoscopy"
was shown online.
|
05/16/2012
|
| Congratulation to Dipendra, Parvathi and collaborator Dr. Kim.
The paper titled "Citrate-based Biodegradable Injectable
hydrogel Composites for Orthopedic Application" was accepted
by a RSC journal "Biomaterials Science".
|
05/16/2012
|
| Congratulation. Graduate student Reza Mehdizadeh received two
awards: excellence in abstract writing for best abstract from
ACES and academic excellence award from MSE department.
|
04/02/2012
|
| Congratulation to Aniket Wadajkar for his paper entitled "Dual
Imaging Enabled Cancer Targeting Nanoparticles" accepted
by "Advanced Healthcare Materials".
|
03/30/2012
|
| Dr. Kytai Nguyen and Dr. Jian Yang are getting a grant from
Cancer Research Foundation of North Texas. Congratulations!
|
02/02/2012
|
| UTA Maverick College Park grand opening. (Video
on Youtube). Yang group research is featured on the video.
|
12/04/2011
|
| Congratulation to Richard Tran, Michael Palmer, and collaborator
Drs. Shou-Jiang Tang and Thomas Abell.. The EMR solution paper
was accepted by a leading medical journal in endoscopy, "Gastrointestinal
Endoscopy".
|
11/21/2011
|
| Congratulation to a former high school summer intern, Diane
Manry for her paper accepted by "Journal of High School Research".
Also congratulation to high school student mentor, Dipen Gyawali.
|
11/11/2011
|
| Congratulation to Richard Tran for successfully defending his
PhD dissertation.
|
11/03/2011
|
| Rheology study on injectable PEGMC/HA composites was accepted
by "Soft Matter".
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07/13/2011
|
| The new NaCl porogen paper was accepted by Biotechnology and
Applied Biochemistry. Congratulations to Richard Tran.
|
07/06/2011
|
| Dr. Yang received a R01 grant from NIH/NIBIB. News
on 01/04/12
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05/06/2011
|
| Congratulation to Jagannath and Richard. The work on CUPE synthesis
and in vivo evaluation was accepted by "Macromolecular Materials
& Engineering".
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05/01/2011
|
| Michael Palmer recevied an award for his oral presentation in
27th Southern Biomedical Engineerong Conference (SBEC).
|
04/22/2011
|
| Upcoming seminars: Dr. Yang will give talks at UT Dallas (05/06/11)
and Biomaterials
Day of Society for Biomaterials at Texas A&M (05/16/11).
|
04/4/2011
|
| Interview
on research in Yang lab. (Interview video included)
|
03/31/2011
|
| Dr. Yang received formal approval for his tenure and promotion
to Associate Professor to be effective on 09/01/2011.
|
02/26/2011
|
| Dr. Yang received "2011 Outstanding Young
Faculty Member Award" from College of Engineering, UTA.
|
01/27/2011
|
| Dr. Yang joins editioral board of "Journal of Microbial
and Biochemical Technology".
|
01/22/2011
|
| Congratulation to Richard Tran on his winning "Potwin
Outstanding Bioengineering Student" award.
|
11/12/2010
|
| Congratulation to Richard Tran on his winning "University
Scholar" award. The University created this award to formally
recognize the top one percent of the student body who exemplify
academic excellence.
|
10/29/2010
|
| Dr. Yang was selected to receive High Impact/High Risk Research
Award from Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas
(CPRIT). Dr Kytai Nguyen is the Co-PI of this award. This is the
first time that UTA researchers receive CPRIT grant. Congratulation!
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09/13/2010
|
| Upcoming seminars: Dr. Yang will give seminars at Southwest
Research Institute (10/12/10), Northwestern University Biomedical
Engineering Department (10/21/2010), and Hong Kong BME2010 conference
(11/03/10, Keynote Speaker).
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09/09/2010
|
| Yang lab research reported by UTArlington
Magazine.
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08/09/2010
| |
Congratulations to Dipen Gyawali. His paper on developing injectable
biomaterials for cell delivery was accepted by a leading journal
"Biomaterials".
|
08/06/2010
| |
Congratulations to collaborator Dr Liping Tang, blood vessel
tissue engineering project received funding supports from American
Heart Association. News
Release!
Congratulations to collaborator Dr Kytai Nguyen, wound dressing
project received funding supports from Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program.
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08/06/2010
| |
Congratulations to Parvathi Nair and Shengyuan Zhou for successfully
defending their MS thesis.
|
07/24/2010 |
|
Yang lab high school outreach on the news.
FW
Star-Telegram report
The Star-Telegram story was the lead feature for Higher Education
in the American Society for Engineering Education’s “First
Bell” e-newsletter (July 22nd)
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07/20/2010 |
|
Congratulations to Elsa
Cigainero (Junior in Biology) and Ibrahim Qattan (Freshman in
Biology) for receiving Summer Research Internship from College
of Engineering
|
04/27/2010 |
|
Dr Yang received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award.
Congratulations! News
Release.
|
03/30/2010 |
|
Congratulation to Jagannath Dey for his paper on CUPE vascular
scaffold accepted by Journal of Biomedical Materials Research
Part A.
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03/08/2010 |
|
Congratulation to Richard Tran, his article on dual- crosslinking
elastomer was accepted by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Journal
"Soft Matter".
|
| 02/22/2010 |
|
Congratulation to Richard Tran, his article titled "Scaffold
Sheet Design Strategy for Soft Tissue Engineering" was accepted
by "Materials". |
| 10/22/2009 |
|
Congratulation to Dipen Gyawali and Richard Tran Their paper titled
"Citric acid derived photocrosslinked biodegradable elastomers"
was accepted by "Journal of Biomaterials Science: Polymer edition".
|
| 9/15/2009 |
|
"Creating
a healthy glow". Research news on "Biophotonics"
Magazine. |
| 8/17/2009 |
|
PNAS paper featured on American
Chemical Society (ACS) "Noteworthy Chemistry". |
| 7/29/2009 |
|
Dr Yang receives funding from NIH/NIBIB for his biomaterial research.
|
| 6/30/2009 |
|
Research on The
Shorthorn News |
| 6/25/2009 |
|
Research on Biodegradable fluorescent polymers was highlighted
in "In
this Issue" of PNAS |
| 6/9/2009 and 6/16/2009 |
|
Dr Yang gave a presentation and lab tours to Summer Bridge Camp
and Access Camp high school students (9th -12th graders). See Pictures. |
| 6/9/2009 |
|
Press
Release on PNAS paper by UTA College of Engineering.
News release by PNAS (English
Version, Chinese
Version at Eurek Alert) |
| 4/30/2009 |
|
Congratulation! Our manuscript regarding the development of biodegradable
photoluminescent polymers was just accepted by prestigious "Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America
(PNAS)". Congratulation to all contributors. |
| 1/7/2009 |
|
Dr Yang gave a
talk at 27th Scientific Conference of SPRBM held at Oahu, Hawaii.
The title of the talk was "Novel aliphatic biodegradable photoluminescent
polymers". |
| 11/14/2008 |
|
Dr Yang gave a talk at Johns Hopkins University (MSE). The title
of the talk was "Novel biodegradable polymers for tissue engineering
and bioimaging". |
| 10/22/2008 |
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Dr Yang gave a talk at UTSW Cancer Imaging Program. The title
of the talk was "Development of functional biodegradable biomaterials
for tissue engineering, drug delivery and bioimaging -- our recent
progress". |
| 8/17/2008 |
|
Congratulation! The manuscript submitted to "Biomaterials"
was accepted. The title of the paper is "Development of biodegradable
crosslinked urethane-doped polyester elastomers". Congratulation
to Jagannath Dey. |
7/24/2008 |
|
Dr. Yang attended 16th International Conference on Mechanics in
Medicine and Biology held at Pittsburgh. The title of his talk is
"Novel biodegradable elastomers and scaffold-sheet tissue engineering".
|
| 04/12/2007 |
|
Congratulation to Paul Thevenot and Dr Liping Tang for publishing
at Tissue Engineering Part A. |
| 6/30/2008 |
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Congratulations!
Dr Yang was awarded a joint venture grant by UTSW-UTA Collaborative
Research Program. This work is in collaboration with Drs Shiakolas(UTA),
Brilakis and Banerjee (UTSW). |
| 5/20/2008 |
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Dr Yang was invited as a guest speaker at Microtrac Seminar held
at Fort Worth, TX. The title of the presentation was "Biodegradable
elastomers for tissue engineering and drug delivery". |
| 5/7/2008 |
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Yang group filed a provisional patent on developing a novel biodegradable
injectable elastomer for soft tissue applications. Student contributors:
Dipendra Gyawali and Richard Tran. |
| 3/03/2008 |
|
Congratulation to Jagannath Dey to win the "Potvin Outstanding
Student Award". |
| 10/04/2007 |
|
Yang research group filed a patent titled "bio-polymer and
scaffold-sheet method for tissue engineering". Congratulations
to the student contributor: Jagannath Dey. |
| 08/05/2007 |
|
Dr.Yang
is invited to speak at CIE-DFW convention on Aug. 25. |
| 07/31/2007 |
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Research on the news |
| 05/25/2007 |
|
Congratulations!
Dr Yang received grant from American Heart Association (AHA) |
| 05/24/2007 |
| Welcome Richard Tran, Santosh Gautam to join our research group. |
| 05/17/2007 |
|
Dr Yang is invited as a review panel memeber for a NIH study section. |
| 04/12/2007 |
|
Congratulations! Dr Yang was awarded a UTA Research Enhancement
Program Grant. |
| 03/20/2007 |
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Congratulations!
Dr Yang was awarded a joint venture grant by UTSW-UTA Collaborative
Research Program. This work is in collaboration with Drs Shiakolas(UTA),
Brilakis and Banerjee (UTSW). |
| 02/18/2007 |
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We are glad to announce the birth of our lab website |
| 02/10/2007 |
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Dr Yang was invited as a NIH/NIBIB study section member |