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04/2008 - A paper by Brian Gillette and co-workers on 3D hydrogels has been accepted by the journal Nature Materials.

04/2008 - Chemical and Engineering News features the our 3D cell-culture paper in Analytical Chemistry.

02/2008 - A paper by Jerry Lii, Wern-Jir Hsu, Hesam Parsa (with undergraduate student Anshu Das and high-school teacher Rob Rouse) on a real-time microfluidic system to study an array of 3D cell-laden extracellular matrices has accepted by the journal Analytical Chemistry.

02/2008 - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a grant (led by RTI and Commons Capital) to help develop a point-of-care diagnostics device for global health, in a collaboration with Claros Diagnostics, a company co-founded by Samuel Sia.

01/2008 - The Sia Lab has been awarded an STTR (R41/R42) Phase I grant by the National Institutes of Health to develop a portable device for diagnosing HIV and other infectious diseases.

01/2008 - The Sia Lab has been awarded a $400,000 CAREER grant by the National Science Foundation on developing advanced biomaterials devices.

12/2007 - Curtis Chin's paper (with undergraduate student Krishn Khanna) on microfabricated skin scaffolds has been accepted by the journal Biomedical Microdevices.

10/2007 - Brian Gillette's paper (with undergraduate Genevieve Yang) on "Synthetic tissue biology: tissue engineering meets synthetic biology" has been accepted by the journal Embryo Today.

03/2007 - Yukkee Cheung's paper (with Brian Gillette, Ming Zhong, and Sharmilee Ramcharan) on "Direct patterning of composite microstructures using microfluidics" has been accepted by the journal Lab on a Chip.

01/2007 - Claros Diagnostics, a company co-founded by Samuel Sia on point-of-care lab-on-a-chip technologies, secures $7.8 million in a Series A round.

11/2006 - Curtis Chin's review on "Lab-on-a-chip devices for global health" will be featured as the cover article for the journal Lab on a Chip.

07/2006 - Jerry Lii's review (with Gilbert Hsu and Stephanie Lee) on "Microfluidics" has been accepted by the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia.

06/2006 - Samuel Sia is awarded the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Award.

05/2006 - Samuel Sia receives an American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant.

04/2006 - Yukkee Cheung is named a Croucher Foundation Scholar.

02/2006 - Jerry Lii is named an NSF EAPSI fellow.

09/2005 - Curtis Chin receives a Frank H. Buck Scholarship for graduate studies.

08/2005 - Lab opens in Engineering Terrace.