Announcements
February 2011
Congratulations to Steven Caliari for receiving the SFB STAR award for his abstract entitled "Biophotolithographic Method to Create Biomolecular Patterns in Porous Collagen-Glycosaminoglycan Scaffolds" to be presented at the SFB Annual Meeting in April.
The Harley Lab has had its first journal article accepted for publication! "The generation of biomolecular patterns in highly porous collagen-GAG scaffolds using direct photolithography" will appear later this year in Biomaterials.
December 2010
Congratulations to Steven Caliari for receiving his M.S. in chemical engineering for his thesis "Design and characterization of an aligned collagen-GAG scaffold-membrane composite with soluble factor presentation for tendon tissue engineering."
Congratulations to Bhushan Mahadik for receiving his M.S. in chemical engineering for his thesis "Multigradient hydrogels to decode extrinsic regulation of hematopoietic stem cell fate."
The Harley Group is Food Wars Champion... again!
October 2010
Congratulations to Steven Caliari for winning an Outstanding Oral Presentation award at the CMBTG Research Symposium.
Congratulations to Steven Caliari for winning 2nd prize at the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Graduate Symposium poster session.
August 2010
Congratulations to Steven Caliari for receiving the Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program fellowship.
May 2010
Congratulations to our undergraduates Tyler Leonard and Nick Skertich for completing their B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Your work in our group has been amazing and you will be missed. Further congratulations to the two of them for completing undergraduate theses:
Tyler Leonard - "Extracellular matrix mechanical properties and dimensionality effects on cytoskeleton organization for osteoblasts and hematopoietic stem cells"
Nick Skertich - "Impact of diet and sex on mouse femora neck cortical thickness"
April 2010
Congratulations to Emily Gonnerman for passing the oral portion of her graduate qualifying exam for the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
Congratulations to Steven Caliari for winning an Outstanding Poster Award at the 2010 University of Illinois Bioengineering Day.
Congratulations to Nick Skertich for earning third prize at the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Dept. Undergraduate Research Symposia for his poster titled, "Impact of diet and sex on mouse femora neck cortical thickness"
March 2010
Congratulations to Steven Caliari for winning an Outstanding Research Award in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at the 2010 Advances in Tissue Engineering Regeneration symposia held at the University of Illinois Chicago.
January 2010
Congratulations to Emily Gonnerman for passing the written portion of her graduate qualifying exam for the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
December 2009
The Harley Lab was awarded a grant from the American Cancer Society (Illinois Division) to develop tools to probe biophysical properties of hematopoietic stem cells
The Harley Lab is the 2009 Food Wars Champion!!!! Congratulations to the whole team! May the group bombing continue next year as well!
October 2009
The Harley Lab welcomes its two new graduate students - Emily Gonnermann and Dan Weisgerber!
May 2009
7 May 2009 - Congratulations to Steven Caliari, Sunny Choi, and Bhushan Mahadik for passing the oral portion of their graduate qualifying exam for the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
11 May 2009 - Chondromimetic, a tissue engineering scaffold developed by Prof. Harley and colleagues that can stimulate bone and cartilage growth when implemented into knees and other joints, is featured in the MIT news
March 2009
19 March 2009 - Prof. Harley and colleagues have published a series of three (I, II, III) articles in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research that describe the development of a multiphase scaffold for osteochondral tissue engineering applications.
January 2009
14 Jan. 2009 - Orthomimetics receives CE Mark approval for clinical trials of Chondromimetic, a product collaboratively developed by Prof. Harley and Dr. Andrew Lynn during their graduate studies at MIT and the University of Cambridge (link)
14 Jan. 2009 - Congratulations to Steven Caliari, Sunny Choi, and Bhushan Mahadik for passing the written portion of their graduate qualifying exam for the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
Media Coverage
New Faces - Inside Illinois, Sept. 18, 2008