Congratulations to Yang Lin for having his work accepted to the BMES annual meeting in October!

Dr. Koppes, in a combined effort with Dr. Rebecca Carrier of Northeastern and Dr. Linda Griffith of MIT, received a $5M NIH Bioengineering Research Partnership Grant for a submission called, “GuMI: New In Vitro Platforms to Parse the Human Gut Epithelial-Microbiome-Immune Axis.”

Dan Ventre’s start-up, Therapeutic Innovations, was accepted into MassChallenge!

Dr. Koppes was awarded a Tier 1 Grant through Northeastern University for a proposal titled, “Biomanufactured Nerve Guidance Channels for Complex Nerve Repair.” This interdisciplinary work will be done with Dr. Adam Ekenseair, Dr. Erin Cram, and Dr. Don O’Malley, all of Northeastern University.

Marissa Puzan received a travel award from the AIChE’s Women’s Initiatives Committee to attend the AIChE annual meeting in November and present her work on intestinal modeling.

Dan Ventre has started his own company, Therapeutic Innovations , where he serves as the Chief Operating Officer. Therapeutic Innovations focuses on developing affordable neonatal respiratory assist systems for use in developing countries.

Marissa Puzan will be presenting her work, “Investigating Neural Control of Epithelial Barrier Function of the Small Intestine with an in Vitro Engineered Model System,” at the AIChE Annual Meeting this November.

Josh Scaralia has been awarded a 2015 National Science Foundation Honorable Mention