Group News

2024

11/10 - Claudia receives the 2024 Artistic Display of Research award. Congrats!
11/4 - Danielle successfully completes her qualifying exam. Congratulations!
10/18 - Claudia successfully defends her Ph.D thesis. Congrats Dr. Benito Alston!
10/15 - Jiaqi joins the lab as a Post doctorate researcher. Welcome!
09/24 - Madi successfully completes her preliminary exam. Congratulations!
09/01 - Dr. Solorio is awarded an R01 for pancreatic cancer research.
09/01- Dr. Solorio is awarded an R01 for pre-metastatic niche research.
06/15- Brenna successfully completes her preliminary exam. Congratulations!
05/05- Michael successfully completes his qualifying exam. Congratulations!
04/25- Mitchell successfully completes his qualifying exam. Congratulations!
04/01- Evelyn successfully completes her qualifying exam. Congratulations!
03/05 - Anastasiia and Dr. Solorio are awarded a patent for Thermally-modulated ultrasound contrast agents.

2023

09/10 - Claudia receives the CTSI TL1 Kroenke poster award. Congratulations!
09/10 - Claudia receives the Artistic Display of Research Award. Congratulations!
08/15 - Danielle and Mitchell join the lab as Ph.D students. Welcome!
08/14 - Dr. Solorio is promoted to Associate professor. Congratulations!
08/01 - Evelyn decides to stay in the lab as a Ph.D student. Glad to have you stay!
07/15 - Michael joins the lab as a Ph.D student. Welcome!
07/10 - Mazin sucessfully defends his Ph.D Thesis. He will be an advisor at Eli Lilly in Boston. Congratulations!
06/13 - Claudia successfully completes her preliminary exam. Congratulations!
05/15 - Natalie and Siting begin as 5th year Master students. Glad to have you stay!
05/05 - Madi successfully completes her Qualifying Exam. Congratulations!
05/01- Brenna receives Leslie Bottorff Fellowship to promote clinical translation of breast cancer therapeutics. We will miss you this summer!
04/15- Anastasiia successfully defends her Ph.D. Thesis. She will be an advisor at Eli Lilly in Indianapolis. Congratulations!
03/02- Jordanna successfully defends her Ph.D. Thesis. She is heading back to medical school to complete her MD-PhD program. Congratulations!

2022

11/30 - Alexandra successfully defends her Master's Thesis titled, "Impact of Collagen Formulation on Matrix Microstructure and Mass transport of Macromolecules." Congratulations!
11/14 - Sarah begins a postdoc position at Vanderbilt under Dr. Reinhart-King. Good luck and we'll miss you!
10/19 - Sarah successfully defends her Ph.D. Thesis, titled, "Characterizing Interactions Between Cancer Cells and the Extracellular Matrix in Metastatic Breast Cancer Through Fibronectin Accumulation." Congratulations, Dr. Libring!
10/17 - Heather begins a position as Technical Associate I at M.I.T. under Dr. Griffith as part of the Center for Gynepathology Research. Good luck and we'll miss you!
08/29 - Dr. Solorio begins work as the Director of the BME Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee, after Dr. Jackie Linnes completes her two-year role as the inaugural director.
08/15 - Mazin begins working as a Graduate Intern in the Talent Development Academy Hub at Eli Lilly and Company in Cambridge, MA. He will be focused on engineered platforms for drug delivery analysis. We will miss you this Fall!
08/09 - Madison Howard joins the lab. Welcome!
07/22 - Eden successfully defends her Master's Thesis titled, "A Proteomics Based Approach to Characterizing Subcutaneous Tissue." Congratulations!
07/18 - Heather successfully defends her Master's Thesis titled, "Microtissues Demonstrate Properties of Wound Healing in 3D." Congratulations!
05/27 - Kelsey leaves the lab and will soon begin work as a Field Application Specialist at Roche Diagnostics in Indianapolis. Good luck and we'll miss you!
05/23 - Sarah is awarded a Young Investigator Award for her abstract at The Midwest Tumor Microenvironment Meeting at the University of Kansas Medical Center for the proposal
05/01 - Claudia is selected to receive the Indiana CTSI Predoctoral Award for Translational Research (TL1)"Increased rate of patient-specific 3D-printed bone graft osteoinduction resulting from controlled release of nanobubble encapsulated growth factors" to fund her from 2022-2024. Congratulations!
04/26 - Jordanna successfully passes her preliminary exam and becomes a doctoral candidate in Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations!
04/13 - Kelsey successfully defends her Ph.D. Thesis titled, "Noninvasive Characterization and Development of In Situ Forming Implants for Use as a Local Pancreatic Cancer Therapy." Congratulations, Dr. Hopkins!
04/13 - Sarah is awarded the Purdue College of Engineering 2022 Outstanding Research Award for the BME Department. Congratulations!
03/11 - Brian leaves Dr. Solorio's and Dr. Vlacho's labs at Purdue University to begin his postdoctoral position at Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico. We'll miss you and good luck!
03/07- Anastasiia successfully passes her preliminary exam and becomes a doctoral candidate in Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations!
02/08 - Mazin successfully passes his preliminary exam and becomes a doctoral candidate in Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations!
02/07 - Claudia wins a $1,000 travel grant at the 2022 Graduate Women in Engineering Network (GWEN) Symposium. Congratulations!
02/01 - Dr. Solorio is recognized as one of the top ten faculty, lecturers, and other staff members with the best teaching evaluations for Fall 2021 in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. Great work!
01/01 - Luis joins the lab co-advised by Dr. Solorio and Dr. Vlachos. Welcome!

2021

10/15 - Sarah becomes the 32nd recipient of the Geddes-Laufman-Greatbatch Award as Purdue's outstanding graduate researcher in Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations!
09/01 - Sarah is awarded the NCI Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00) for the proposal, "Matrix Accumulation in the Metastatic Niche." Congratulations!
08/16 - Anastasiia begins work as a Drug Discovery and Development Graduate Intern in the Medicines Innovation Hub at Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis. We will miss you during the fall semester!
08/15 - Adriene and Evelyn are accepted into the Purdue BME 5th year BS/MS combined program. Congratulations!
07/21 - Brian successfully defends his Ph.D. Thesis titled, "Microfluidic Velocimetry for Investigating Molecular Transport and Cell Migration." Congratulations, Dr. Jun!
07/01 - Elly finishes her time at Purdue University as she accepts a job with AstraZeneca. She will begin in September as an Operations Global Graduate Associate. Congratulations and we'll miss you!
06/01 - Purdue student, Elyssia Wellington, joins TMET for the summer through the SURF REU program. Welcome!
06/01 - Megan Abravanel, rising junior in chemical engineering at UC Berkeley, joins TMET for the summer. Welcome!
06/01 - "The dynamic relationship of breast cancer cells and fibroblasts in fibronectin accumulation at primary and metastatic tumor sites" is highlighted in the collection: authors or important to this field' based on recommendations by the scientific editors of the journal
05/15 - Brenna joins the lab co-advised by Dr. Solorio and Dr. Wendt, a professor in Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology. Welcome!
05/01 - Group alumna, Jade, is accepted in the BME MS program at Washington University in St. Louis under Dr. Jason Weber, studying microfluidic devices in breast cancer. Good luck!
04/02 - Sarah is awarded the 2021 Association for Clinical Translational Science (ACTS) Outstanding Trainee Predoctoral Scholar Award which recognizes achievement in translational research and transformational scientific potential. Congratulations!
04/01 - Sarah successfully passes her preliminary exam and becomes a doctoral candidate in Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations!
04/01 - Kevin begins his position as a Scientist in Vaccines R&D as part of the Scientific Leadership Program at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in Italy. In bocca al lupo!
03/24 - Mazin is awarded the Purdue College of Engineering 2021 Outstanding Service Scholarship Award for the BME Department. Congratulations!
02/07 - "Transglutaminase-2 facilitates extracellular vesicle-mediated establishment of the metastatic niche" is highlighted in the collection: Readers Choice: The best of Oncogenesis 2020
01/29 - Kevin finishes his postdoctoral work in the TMET lab and moves for a new industry position. We'll miss you!

2020

08/31 - Group alumna, Monica, begins a Ph.D. program in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Michigan. Good luck!
08/24 - Claudia joins the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
07/30 - "The dynamic relationship of breast cancer cells and fibroblasts in fibronectin accumulation at primary and metastatic tumor sites" is featured on the front page of the Cancers journal website
07/13 - Monica successfully defends her Masters Thesis titled, "The Role of CD90 in Breast Cancer Tumor Progression." Congratulations!
07/01 - Eden, Heather, and Lexi are accepted into the Purdue BME 5th year BS/MS combined program. Congratulations!
05/15 - Kelsey begins working as a Data Science Graduate Intern at Merck evaluating a deep neural network for segmentation automation. We will miss you this summer!
05/14 - Elly successfully defends her Masters Thesis titled, "Utilizing Proteomics to Identify Extracellular Matrix Changes during Breast Cancer Metastasis." Congratulations!
05/07 - Kelsey successfully passes her preliminary exam and becomes a doctoral candidate in Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations!
04/08 - Sarah is awarded the Purdue College of Engineering 2020 Outstanding Service Scholarship Award for the BME Department. Congratulations!
02/17 - Brian successfully passes his preliminary exam and becomes a doctoral candidate in Mechanical Engineering. Congratulations!

2019

12/31 - Sarah begins researching in our collaborator, Dr. Wilbert Zwart's, lab under the IIE GIRE fellowship at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam. Congratulations!
08/01 - Elizabeth's poster is selected among the top five posters at the 2019 SURF Symposium. Congratulations!
06/15 - Jordanna begins her Ph.D. full-time after completing the first two years of medical school in the M.D.-Ph.D program. Welcome back!
05/21 - Dr. Solorio gives an invited talk at the 2019 Midwest Tumor Microenvironment conference
05/15 - Sarah's poster wins 3rd place in the "Graduate Student Basic Sciences" category at the Cancer Research Day
05/03 - Kelsey's poster is selected to win in the "Cancer and Developmental Disorders" category at the Advancing Health: An Engineering-Medicine Partnership conference. Congratulations!
04/23 - Kelsey is awarded a 2019 Summer Research Grant by the Purdue Graduate School and BME Department. Congratulations!
03/23 - Mazin's "layman's terms elevator speech" is awarded in the top two of all the pitches at the Amelia Project Conference
03/23 - Kelsey's abstract is ranked among the top four and is selected for an oral presentation at the Amelia Project Conference
03/06 - After being nominated by his lab, Dr. Solorio wins the 2019 BME Outstanding Mentor of Engineering Graduate Students!
03/01 - Dr. Solorio's R21 grant receives funding. It is titled: Prescription Opioid Formulation to Deter Extraction, Injection, Insufflation, and Smoking
02/26 - Dr. Solorio received the ASPIRE Award to develop a model that may enable clinicians to better predict the effectiveness of drug therapies for metastasized cancers
02/22 - Sarah is selected to receive the Indiana CTSI Predoctoral Award for Translational Research (TL1).
01/17 - Dr. Solorio is a panelist during the Engineering Biomaterials for 4D Biology Lecture Series with Kristi S. Anseth
01/01 - Kevin Buno joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

2018

10/18 - Kelsey presents a poster at BMES in Atlanta
10/01 -"Autocrine Fibronectin Inhibits Breast Cancer Metastasis" manuscript selected for MCR cover. Congratulations!
08/02 - Maryam's poster won second place at the SURF Symposium. Congratulations!
08/01 - Group alumnus, Shipeng, joins Masters program at Northwestern. Good luck!
08/01 - Anastasiia joins the lab co-advised by Dr. Solorio and Dr. Vlachos. Welcome!
07/14 - Dr. Solorio gives a talk at the Amelia Project Conference
07/01 - Elly and Monica are accepted into the Purdue BME 5th year BS/MS combined program. Congratulations!

2017

08/03 - Anastasiia's poster wins first place at the SURF Symposium. Congratulations!
08/01 - Sarah, Mazin, and Kelsey join the lab. Welcome!