08/02 - Maryam's poster won second place at the SURF Symposium. Congratulations!
08/01 - Group alumnus, Shipeng Xu, joins Masters program at Northwestern. Good luck!
07/14 - Dr. Solorio gives talk at Amelia Project
08/02 - Maryam's poster won second place at the SURF Symposium. Congratulations!
08/01 - Group alumnus, Shipeng Xu, joins Masters program at Northwestern. Good luck!
07/14 - Dr. Solorio gives talk at Amelia Project
08/02 - Maryam's poster won second place at the SURF Symposium. Congratulations!
08/01 - Group alumnus, Shipeng Xu, joins Masters program at Northwestern. Good luck!
07/14 - Dr. Solorio gives talk at Amelia Project
08/02 - Maryam's poster won second place at the SURF Symposium. Congratulations!
08/01 - Group alumnus, Shipeng Xu, joins Masters program at Northwestern. Good luck!
08/01 - Anastasiia Vasiukhina joins the lab co-advised by Dr. Solorio and Dr. Vlachos. Welcome!
07/14 - Dr. Solorio gives talk at Amelia Project
Tumor MicroEnvironment & Therapeutics Lab (TMET)
Group News
2023
03/02- Jordanna successfully defends her Ph.D. Thesis. Congratulations!
04/- Anastasiia successfully defends her Ph.D. Thesis. 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 Talen 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
05/01 - Claudia is selected to receive the Indiana CTSI Predoctoral Award for Translational Research (TL1) for the proposal,
"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!
04/01 - Apekshya joins the lab as she becomes co-advised by Dr. Solorio and Dr. Rispoli. Welcome!
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. He'll be researching on the Host and Pathogen Team, Bioscience Division. 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. She will help characterize peptide higher-order structure relating to drug substance isolation.
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: Editor's Choice Articles for publications that 'will be particularly interesting to
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 Micronenvironment 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) for the proposal,
"Building Better Drug Screening Platforms by Understanding 2D and 3D Cellular Interactions" to fund her from 2019-2021.
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!