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• Santosh, Ketan and Aaron’s paper titled “ In situ plasmonic generation in a functional ionic-gold-nanogel scaffold for rapid quantitative bio-sensing which was published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics got highlighted on Illinois News Bureau. Here is the link for the article: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/689049#image-1

• Ph.D. student, Indrajit will be giving 4 oral talks at the American Chemical Society National Meetings in Orlando, FL which will be held from 31st March to 4th April.

• We would first like to congratulate Prof. Pan on becoming the Associate Head of Graduate Programs, Department of Bioengineering. Prof. Pan was also elected to be the Associate Editor for WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology (Wiley).
• We will like to congratulate Aaron who in December successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, and is on his way to MD Anderson Cancer Center for his postdoctoral work. Good luck, Aaron.
• Recently, some of the research works published by Pan Lab got media attention and was highlighted on the University website, but also on Science daily and Nanowerk. Michael and Santosh’s work titled as ‘Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Globular Orphan Nuclear Receptor Regulator with Biological Activity in Soft Tissue Sarcoma’ which got published in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry was highlighted on the University website.

From left: Fatemeh (Youkabed) Ostadhossein, graduate student tin bioengineering; and Dipanjan Pan, professor of bioengineering

• Indu’s paper titled ‘Biodegradable nano carbon-based smart filters for efficient remediation of pharmaceutical contaminants’ which got accepted in Journal of Materials Chemistry A got highlighted onto the Daily Illini.
• Youkabed’s work titled ‘Dual purpose hafnium oxide nanoparticles offer imaging Streptococcus mutans dental biofilm and fight it In vivo via a drug-free approach’ which was published in Biomaterials, got highlighted on Science daily, Nanowerk.

• Santosh and Indrajit’s work titled ‘Carbon dots with induced surface oxidation permits imaging at a single-particle level for intracellular studies’ was highlighted on the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology website. 

• Graduate student, Parinaz was a finalist for Research Live! which was held in October. You can watch the video of her talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96whLB8-oYY) Picture below.

• http://www.faseb.org/Resources-for-the-Public/Scientific-Contests/BioArt/Past-Winners/2018-BioArt-Winners.aspx .Furthermore, 3 of her microscopy images were featured in the UIUC non-majors art exhibit. Congratulations, Parinaz.

• Graduate student, Youkabed was awarded the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Public Policy Institute Travel Award on September 2018. See below:

• Our seniormost Ph.D. student, Enrique successfully defended in April and participated in the graduation ceremony in May. Congratulations, Enrique!

• Graduate students from Pan lab (some people missing!) celebrated Enrique’s graduate at Big Grove Tavern in Downtown Champaign.

• Congratulations to Parinaz on being awarded the NIH T32 Tissue microenvironment training grant. Read more about it here. She also recently presented a poster at the AVS Midatlantic meeting and earned third place.

• Congratulations to Prof. Pan, who was recently awarded 2018 College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research for work conducted by an associate professor. Below is a picture of the award ceremony which took place on 23rd April.

• Parinaz recently won the Nadine Barrie Smith memorial fellowship. This fellowship is awarded annually to female graduate students conducting research in the general field of medical imaging (e.g., ultrasound, optical, magnetic resonance) at the Beckman Institute. Parinaz also received an honorable mention for her 2018 NSF Graduate Fellowship application. Big congratulations, Parinaz.

• Congratulations to Fatemeh, who recently bagged AHA Pre-doctoral fellowship. Well deserved!
• Heartiest congratulations to Enrique, who passed his defense. Well done, Dr. Daza.

• Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Valery, who recently was accepted into University of Kentucky School of Medicine. Best wishes from everyone in your new adventure, Valery!

• Firstly, Pan lab would like to congratulate our senior graduate students, Enrique, Aaron and Fatemeh for passing their prelims!!!!
• We would like to congratulate Parinaz for getting 2nd place at MRL Fall Biological Conference where she presented her work on stents.
• Furthermore, Parinaz’s TEM images of “Nanoflowers” and “Nanosquid” were chosen as the runner’s up for JOEL 2017 Imaging competition. Kudos!
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• Fatemeh’s image of a 2-D aquarium comprising HfS2 nanosheets got featured in CE&N magazine. It was also highlighted on the Bioengineering department website. You can read more about 2-D aquarium here. Link. Congratulations Fatemeh!

• Graduate students, Fatemeh and Parinaz presented their work at AIChE conference held at Illinois Institue of Technology, Chicago. Fatemeh gave an oral talk and chaired one of the session, whereas Parinaz gave 3 oral talks! (wow!)

• Ph.D. candidate, Indrajit got awarded the Spring 2018 Graduate College Travel award for his talk at 255th American Chemical Society at New Orleans, LA.
• Recently, Indrajit, Santosh, and Indu gave oral talks at the 255th American Chemical Society meetings held at New Orleans, LA. Indrajit was also selected to present his poster at Sci-Mix. (Scientific Mixer!)

• Fatemeh and Parinaz will be giving oral talks at the MRS spring conference to held in Pheonix, AZ. Furthermore, their images have been selected for the final rounds of MRS Science as Art contest. Good luck!

• During the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Professor Pan was awarded the CMBE Young Innovator award (Pictures below). Congratulations Prof. Pan!

• Several Pan Lab members including Post-doc Muhummad and Graduate students Enrique, Fatemeh, Parinaz, Indrajit and Enrique will be presenting their research work in next month’s MRL Fall Biological Conference on 8th and 9th November.

• Firstly, MatMed lab is proud to make this announcement that Dr. Pan has become a tenured faculty at the Department of Bioengineering, UIUC and is promoted to Associate Professor starting this Fall.
• We would like to welcome back Taylor, who re-joins our lab as a graduate student for her M.S. degree and Dr. Dinabandhu Sar, who joins the lab as a post-doctoral researcher (PhD from IIT Guwahati). Additionally, Aaron and Indrajit both got their M.S degrees over the summer. Kudos!!
• We are also pleased to announce that both Indrajit and Parinaz have passed their qualifying examinations and are now Ph.D. candidates. Congratulations! To celebrate this occasion, MatMed lab planned a dinner outing, which you can see below:

• Santosh and Ketan presented their poster at annual Health Care Engineering Systems Symposium (HCESC) at I-Hotel and Conference Center, Champaign-Illinois titled ” Plasmonic “Ojogel” Kit for Detecting Corneal Integrity Post Glaucoma Surgery”.

• MatMed lab had its annual lab party at Pan residence, enjoying the beautiful weather and wonderful food. We took our customary lab groupfie, courtesy of our graduate student, Enrique.

• Matmed lab had a very productive and rewarding spring semester in term of new publications. Our Research scientist, Santosh published his work on 3-D Printed Multidrug-Eluting Stent from Graphene-Nanoplatelet-Doped Biodegradable Polymer Composite in Advanced Healthcare Materials. He also published his works on Genomic DNA Interactions Mechanize Peptidotoxin-Mediated Anticancer Nanotherapy & @-Amino Acid Rich Photo-phytonic Nanoparticles of Algal Origin Serendipitously Reveals Anti-Migratory Properties Against Cancer in Molecular Pharmaceutics and ACS Applied respectively.
• Post-doctoral researcher, Muhammad published his work titled, Paper-Based Analytical Biosensor Chip Designed from Graphene-Nanoplatelet-Amphiphilic-diblock-co-Polymer Composite for Cortisol Detection in Human Saliva in Analytical Chemistry. He also published his work titled, Real-Time Monitoring of Post-Surgical and Post-Traumatic Eye Injuries using Multilayered Electrical Biosensor Chip in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
• Ph.D. Candidate, Fatemeh Ostadhossein published her work on Nanosalina: A Tale of Saline-Loving Algae From The Lake’s Agony to Cancer Therapy in ACS Applied. PhD Candidate, Enrique Daza published his work on Multi-Shell Nano-Carbo Scavenger For Petroleum Spill Remediation in Nature Scientific Reports.
• M.S Student, Indrajit Srivastava published his work titled Surface Chemistry of Carbon Nanoparticles Functionally Select Their Uptake in Various Stages of Cancer Cells in NanoResearch. This work will be the Cover Art for the October 2017 Issue. Santosh and Indrajit’s paper on Macromolecularly “Caged” Carbon Nanoparticles for Intracellular Trafficking via Switchable Photoluminescence was published in JACS. This work was also highlighted in Engineering at Illinois, Phys.Org and Science Magazine. undergraduate student, Taylor Kampert published her first author work titled on Phenotypically Screened Carbon Nanoparticles for Enhanced Combinatorial Therapy in Triple Negative Breast Cancer in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Great job Taylor!!
• Fatemeh Ostadhossein was awarded Nadine Barrie Smith Graduate Fellowship and Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship. She has also been selected to attend NIH Clinical Center’s Clinical and Translational Research Course for PhD students. Congratulations!

Santosh was awarded the best poster award in MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA. First year PhD student, Parinaz Fathi was awarded the National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship. Furthermore, she was also awarded the 2017 Teaching Excellence Fellowship,  by the Bioengineering department. Kudos!

• Finally, we are pleased to announce that Professor Dipanjan Pan was awarded the 2016 Nano-Micro Letter (NML) Researcher Award. He was also elected as the Fellow of American College of Cardiology. Congratulations Prof. Pan.

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This month has been quite eventful with Professor Pan and Dr. Santosh Misra being featured on the departments website. Professor Pan was also elected to be a fellow of the American Heart Association this month. MATMED Lab presented at multiple conferences this month. The first being the MRL conference. Graduate students Youkabed Ostadhossein and Aaron Schwartz-Duval presented their work to receive first and second place in poster judging. Additionally Dr. Santosh Misra and Dr. Muhammad Khan presented at the MRL conference.

The lab also presented at the Midwest BMES conference with everyone presenting a project. In other news, we would like to congratulate Youkabed Ostadhossein for receiving  the Foundation of Women Wellness Fellowship 2016.

The MatMed team has been evolving into an incredible industry-disruptive leader in academic research with its new team members, recent impactful publications, and vast amounts of awards! First off we would like to welcome our new members to the MatMed Pan Clan; Kevin (Zhen) Wang, Parinaz Fathi, Rushi Patel, and Lucy Zhaolu Huang. Their incredible expertise will jumpstart new areas of research that will continue to make our team an interdisciplinary giant on the University of Illinois Campus. Check out their profiles to get to know them better.

We would like to send a friendly ‘Congratulations’ to our Senior Graduate student, Aaron Schwartz-Duval for being elected president of the Bioengineering Advisory Council (BEACON). This council is dedicated to improving internal dynamics of graduate culture operations. Here in the MatMed Lab, we pride ourselves not only on our vast technical skill sets but also our leadership ability. Congratulations Aaron!

Our team of researchers, students, and postdoctoral scholars, recently attended multiple conferences and won some incredible awards. Our very own Dr. Muhammad Khan, attended the 38th Annual International Conference on the Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society. While attending, he was awarded the prestigious EMBS-NSF award for Young Professionals! Congratulations to Muhammad!

Congratulations to out post-doc, Dr. Muhammad Shuja Khan on being awarded the EMBS-NSF Award for Young Professionals.

A photo posted by Pan Bioengineering Lab. @ UIUC (@thepanclan) on Aug 21, 2016 at 11:58am PDT

Soon after, Dr. Guru Vulugundum, Aaron Schwartz-Duval, Youkabed Ostadhossein, and Indrajit Srivastava attended the American Vacuum Society Prarie Chapter in Chicago, where Youkabed won the 2nd place Prarie Chapter award on her outstanding research! Youkabed has also been selected for the Illinois Female Engineers in Academia Training and as a graduate mentor in the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program. Congratulations Youkabed!

2nd place and gas money

A photo posted by Aaron Schwartz-Duval (@aaron.schwartzduval) on Sep 8, 2016 at 1:06pm PDT

As most bioengineers know, the Biomedical Engineering Society conference happened recently in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Professor Dipanjan Pan, Dr. Santosh Misra, and Aaron Schwartz-Duval had the pleasure of attending and representing our team with their innovative research.

BMES has got some swanky diggs

A photo posted by Aaron Schwartz-Duval (@aaron.schwartzduval) on Oct 6, 2016 at 8:23am PDT

Furthermore, our senior Postdoctoral Scholar Dr. Santosh Misra has been promoted and duly appointed as the MatMed Lab’s Research Scientist for his outstanding contributions to our lab’s research progress.

Finally, we are pleased to announce that Professor Dipanjan Pan and Dr. Santaosh Misra were mentioned in a press release with News Medical Life Sciences regarding a unique investigation into the cancer switch. This news story can be found here, and the Scientific Reports research paper this press release was based on can be found here.

Signing off ,

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