Recent News
Dr. Nikki Votaw
November 29, 2021
Congratulations to Nikki Votaw, who defended her PhD thesis in September! Nikki is off to a Principal Scientist position in Viral Vector R&D at Isolere Bio. Congratulations Nikki!
Dr. Chelsea Fries
November 29, 2021
Congratulations to Chelsea Fries, who defended her PhD thesis in September! Chelsea is now off to postdoc with Neil King at the University of Washington. Congrats Chelsea!
Dr. Lucas Shores
October 1, 2021
Congratulations to Lucas Shores, who defended his PhD thesis in September! Lucas is off to postdoc with Melody Swartz and Jeff Hubbell at UChicago. Congratulations Lucas!
Dr. Kelly Hainline
May 1, 2021
Kelly successfully defended her PhD thesis and is off to Los Angeles to work as a Scientist at Amgen. Congratulations, Kelly!
Dr. Sean Kelly
January 15, 2021
Sean successfully defended his PhD thesis and is off to Baltimore for a postdoc with Jennifer Elisseeff's Group. Congratulations Sean!
Joel is elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows
March 9, 2017
Joel is elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Greg Hudalla Receives Young Innovator Award
November 19, 2016
October, 2016 Greg Hudalla, Collier lab alum, named a 2016 Young Innovator by the journal Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
Philip Jung Joins Faculty at Louisiana State University
November 19, 2016
Fall, 2016 Philip Jung, Collier lab alum, joins Louisiana State University as an Associate Professor in Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Biomedical Engineering Society Presentations
November 19, 2016
October, 2016 Yi Wen and Joel Collier present at the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Collier Lab Welcomes New PhD Students
November 19, 2016
Fall, 2016 Kelly Hainline, Lucas Shores, Nikki Votaw, and Chelsea Fries join the Collier Group as new PhD students
NIH R21 Grant For Exploring 3D Culture
November 19, 2016
Fall, 2016 NIH grants an R21 to a collaborative effort between the Collier lab and the Vander Griend lab at UChicago, on exploring engineered matrices for the 3D culture of prostate cancer cell organoids
Yalini, Robert, and Yi win awards at the World Biomaterials Congress
May 25, 2016
Last week at the World Biomaterials Congress in Montreal, Yalini Vigneswaran won the award for "Outstanding Research by a Hospital Intern, Resident, or Clinical Fellow". Her paper describing her work will appear soon in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research-A. Robert De Loera won a Cato... read more
Sean Kelly and Lucas Shores win NSF Fellowships
May 24, 2016
Sean Kelly and Lucas Shores have been awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Congratulations Sean and Lucas!
Collier Group Moves to Duke
January 1, 2016
The Collier Group has moved to Duke University, in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.