Recent News

May 1, 2021

Kelly successfully defended her PhD thesis and is off to Los Angeles to work as a Scientist at Amgen.  Congratulations, 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!

March 9, 2017

Joel is elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).

November 19, 2016

October, 2016   Greg Hudalla, Collier lab alum, named a 2016 Young Innovator by the journal Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

November 19, 2016

Fall, 2016   Philip Jung, Collier lab alum, joins Louisiana State University as an Associate Professor in Biological and Agricultural Engineering

November 19, 2016

October, 2016  Yi Wen and Joel Collier present at the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota

November 19, 2016

Fall, 2016  Kelly Hainline, Lucas Shores, Nikki Votaw, and Chelsea Fries join the Collier Group as new PhD students

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

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

May 24, 2016

Sean Kelly and Lucas Shores have been awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.  Congratulations Sean and Lucas!  

January 1, 2016

The Collier Group has moved to Duke University, in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.