Title: Fibrin Networks Infected by Staphylococcal Biofilms: Mechanics, Structure and Instability

Chair: Michael Solomon

This award recognizes scientists and pharmaceutical professionals who are early in their careers, who have made a significant impact in the pharmaceutical sciences that promotes public health.

Abhinav Achreja, a postdoctoral fellow in Deepak Nagrath’s lab, was awarded a Precision Health Scholar Award.

The Henry Russel Lectureship is awarded annually to a faculty member with exceptional achievements in research, scholarship or creative endeavors, as well as an outstanding record of teaching, mentoring and service.

BI Faculty member and Chemical Engineering Professor Mike Solomon will serve as the next dean of Rackham Graduate School and vice provost for academic affairs-graduate studies.

The Stacey and Chestek labs report on their collaborative research on investigating high frequency oscillations (HFOs) as potential new biomarker candidates for epilepsy.

Cindy Chestek (Biomedical Engineering), James Moon (Pharmaceutical Sciences) and A. Schwendeman (Pharmaceutical Sciences) were promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations!

Peter Tessier was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). AIMBE comprises of leaders in medical and biological engineering, consisting of academic, industrial, professional society councils and elected fellows.

Thank you to all of the poster presenters who attended the BIRG 2nd Microposter Session and congratulations to our winners!

The ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes exceptional and unusually interesting work produced by doctoral students from the Rackham School of Graduate Studies.

In a paper recently published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, the Tuteja lab reports on recent findings on omniphobic coatings that could be applied on a variety of surfaces to repel almost any liquid.

Nick Kotov is one of members of the 2018 class of the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, awarded by the Department of Defense.

Carlos Aguilar is one of the recipients of the 2018 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Awards. Awarded by 3M Corporation, this award recognizes junior faculty who demonstrate outstanding research, experience, teaching and academic leadership.

A collaborative project from the Lahann, Luker and Krebsbach labs reports on new jet writing technique for printing 3D structures for biomedical applications.

The article entitled “3D Jet Writing: Functional Microtissues Based on Tessellated Scaffold Architectures” appears in Advanced Materials.