Pablo and Joel ATTENDED THE 2023 SHPE annual meeting
Pablo and Joel recently attended the annual meeting of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers in Salt Lake City, Utah. During the event, they connected with prospective PhD students, providing them with insights into the resources available at Duke to support their application process for doctoral programs.

COLLIER LAB ATTENDED THE 2023 BMES annual meeting
Pablo, Deleah, Mia, Christopher and Joel recently attended the 2023 Biomedical Engineering Society meeting held in Seattle. Not only did our group members present a poster about their research but also had the opportunity to network with alumni from our lab.


Collier Lab attended the 2023 Gordon Research Conference
Joel, Emily, Shamitha and Helena are attending the 2023 Gordon Research Conference. Our students presented posters about their PhD projects and Helena was also selected for a talk.
Poster presentation at the 2023 CBTE Symposium
Today our team presented their research work during the poster session at the 2023 Symposium hosted by the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering (CBTE) at Duke University. From left to right: Emily Roe, Helena Freire-Haddad, Pablo Cordero-Alvarado, Kat Lazar, Shamitha Shetty.
Collier Lab at 2022 BMES Annual Meeting
Members of our team assisted to the 2021 Annual Meeting of BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) which took place in San Antonio, Texas. This experience allowed our team members to not only increase their knowledge about the field of biomaterials but also to increase their professional network and share their current reserach projects through oral presentations and posters.


We attended the 2022 GRC Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Symposium
Pablo, Emily, Elizabeth, Shamitha, Yaoying and Joel attended the 2022 Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Symposium this week. During this event, Joel provided a talk about supramolecular immunodulators for inflammatory disease and both Elizabeth and Yaoying presented posters of their current work at the lab

2022 GRC presentations and poster award
Yaoying and Elizabeth recently attended the inaugural Immunoengineering GRC in Ventura, CA. They both presented posters, and Elizabeth gave a Poster Preview talk. Elizabeth also won a Poster Award.


2022 BME retreat - Chetola Resort at blowing rock

Spring semester 2022 team

Collier, Permar, Fouda labs celebrate Jui-lin passing his Prelim! December 2019

Nikki, Jui-lin, Lucas, and Sean at the BMES Conference, October 2019

Joel Presents at the Drexel Immune Symposium October 2019 and Nikki wins 1st prize at the Poster Competition


Kelly reunited with Collier lab alumnus Yi Wen at the Lilly Biotechnology Center in San Diego where she completed a 10 week internship

Collier Lab Summer 2018

Collier lab at Society for Biomaterials Conference April 2017

Fangqi's Masters Thesis Defense March 2017
Collier Lab Spring 2017

Current and former Collier Lab members enjoying a delicious French meal after great presentations at the World Biomaterials Congress in Montreal (May, 2016).

Robert De Loera being awarded a 2016 Cato T. Laurencin, MD, PhD Travel Award from the Society for Biomaterials at the World Biomaterials Congress in Montreal (May, 2016).

Yalini Vigneswaran receiving the 2016 Award for Outstanding Research by a Hospital Intern, Resident, or Clinical Fellow from the Society for Biomaterials. Presented at the World Biomaterials Congress in Montreal (May, 2016).

Hanging out in Joel's back yard. (April, 2016).

Collier Group and Families, Farewell to Chicago, December 2015

Collier Lab 2014-2015

Rebecca's Farewell Party, 2014

Rebecca, Tao, Fang in the lab, 2014

Field's Defense, 2014

Philip being Hooded, 2010

Joel and Philip at the World Biomaterials Congress in Amsterdam, 2008
