Alsberg Lab News
2023
- The lab welcomes new MS student Hari Shankar Manoj Vineetha.
- Welcome visiting researchers Dr. Wellington Luiz de Oliveira da Rosa and Dr. Min Suk Lee.
- Dr. Alsberg earns UIC's 2022 Researcher of the Year Award in Natural Sciences and Engineering.
- Kait Zemanski has received a NIH-NHLBI T32 Graduate Fellowship.
- Derrick Wells presented his work with Dr. Khetani's lab on Microscope Co-cultures at SFB in San Diego.
- Katherine Knowles has received a NIH-NIBIB T32 Graduate Fellowship.
- Dr. Alsberg has been elected a National Academy of Inventors (NIA) Fellow.
- Dr. Alsberg received the TERMIS Senior Scientist Award.
- Kaelyn Gasvoda presented her work on 4D Tissue Engineering with a poster at SFB in Baltimore.
- Congratulations to Sriramya Ayyagari on her 1st place oral presentation at UIC BME Symposium.
- Dr. Alsberg given Departmental Faculty of the Year Award for the UIC College of Medicine.
- Dr. Alsberg has been elected a Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Fellow.
- Dr. Daniel Alt has successfully defended his doctorate thesis.
- Marvin Rivera received the Chancellors Undergraduate Research Award.
- Dr. Rui Tang has received a NIH-NIBIB T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Congratulations to Rui on receiving the AAI Young Investigator Award from the American Association of Immunologists for his presentation at the University of Chicago.
- We would like to welcome David Cleveland as a new graduate student to our lab.
- The Alsberg lab has moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago into a beautiful lab in the College of Medicine.
- We would like to welcome Graduate students Sriramya Ayyagari, Kaelyn Gasvoda, and Derrick Wells.
- We would like to welcome Felicia He as a new graduate student to our lab.
- Congratulations to Yuxuan Cheng for receiving the ENGAGE Summer Research Scholarship.
- Congratulations to Melanie Chetverikova for receiving the SOURCE Summer Research Scholarship.
- Congratulations to Arielle Soffer for receiving the SOURCE Summer Research Scholarship.
- Congratulations to Yuxuan Cheng for receiving the SOURCE Summer Research Scholarship.
- Congratulations to Dr. Anna Dikina for successfully completing her PhD.
- We would like to welcome Dr. Rui Tang as a new postdoctoral researcher to our lab.
- Samual Herberg has been awarded the 2016 TERMIS WFIRM Young Investigator Award, congratulations!
- Congratulations to Anna Dikina for receiving the Excellence in Dept./External Service Activities Award, the Graduate Student Appreciation Award, and an award for pest podium presentation at Musculoskeletal Research Day.
- Congratulations to Alex McMillan for receiving the CSCTR/MWAFMR Meeting Travel Award.
- Congratulations to Dr. Phuong Dang on a successful completion of her PhD, and to Zijie Zheng on a successful completion of his MS.
- We would like to welcome Dr. Jung-Youn Shin as a new postdoctoral researcher to our lab.
- At the NE OH Musculoskeletal Retreat Anna Dikina has won the Victor M. Goldberg Best Poster Award, congratulations!
- Congratulations to Samuel Herberg and Anna Dikina for receiving the Tissue Engineering International & Regenerative Medicine Society Conference Travel Award.
- Congratulations to Anna Dikina and Dr. Phuong Dang for becoming 2nd Place Finalists in the TERMIS 2015 World Congress Business Plan Competition!
- Dr. Eben Alsberg has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows, congratulations!
- Congratulations to Anna Dikina for receiving the Baxter Young Investigator Award, taking 2nd Place at the PITCHU Elevator Pitch Competition, as well as winning the CWRU School of Graduate Studies Graduate Student Travel Award. Further congratulations to Anna Dikina for winning the 1st Place Poster Presentation Award at the CWRU Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium, and for receiving the Victor M. Goldberg Best Poster Award at the NE OH Musculoskeletal Retreat.
- Congratulations to Dr. Phuong Dang for taking 3rd Place at the PITCHU Elevator Pitch Competition.
- Congratulations to Dr. Eben Alsberg for receiving the Case BMES Undergraduate Teaching Award, and for being nominated for the Case BMES Undergraduate Mentoring Award. Dr. Alsberg has also received the Lady Davis Fellowship at the Technion.
- Congratulations to Dr. Samuel Herberg and Anna Dikina for receiving Tissue Engineering International & Regenerative Medicine Society Conference Travel Awards. Further congratulations to Anna Dikina for receiving the Case Western Graduate Student Senate Verhosek "V" Fund Award and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting Travel Award.
- Dr. Oju Jeon and Anna Dikina have been awarded NIH-NIAMS T32 Fellowships, congratulations!
- Congratulations to Dr. Christina Cheng for her 1st Place poster at the Ohio Orthopaedic Society Meeting and 2nd Place poster at the Cleveland Orthopaedic Society Meeting.
- Dr. Eben Alsberg was nominated for the Case School of Engineering Research Award, congratulations!
- Congratulations to Dr. Khanh Nguyen for being awarded the 2013 TERMIS WFIRM Young Investigator Award, and to Michael Hill for being awarded a TERMIS Travel Award for a top 25 abstract.
- We would like to congratulate Dr. Christina Cheng for winning the Best Poster Award at NE OH Musculoskeletal Research Retreat. We would also like to congratulate Julia Samorezov for receiving the Society For Biomaterials’ (SFB) Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) Award, and Anna Dikina for receiving a LBDH Exchange Visit Fellowship.
- Congratulations to Dr. Christina Cheng for winning a OREF Research Residency Grant, and being awarded an Allen Fellowship.
- Congratulations to Daniel Alt for being awarded a NIH-NIAMS T32 Graduate Fellowship. Further congratulations to Phuong Dang for winning a LBDH Exchange Visit Fellowship and to Julia Samorezov for receiving a Material Research Society Student Travel Award.
- Dr. Eben Alsberg was nominated for the Case School of Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award, congratulations!
- Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Krebs for being awarded the 2011 TERMIS WFIRM Young Investigator Award, the 2011 Doctoral Excellence Award for Best Dissertation in the CWRU Department of Biomedical Engineering, and an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- We would like to congratulate Dr. Alia Hdeib for receiving a Society for Neurological Surgeons Resident Award.
- Congratulations to Dr. Eben Alsberg for receiving the Glennan Fellows Award for Teachers and Scholars, as well as being nominated for the Case School of Engineering Research Award and being a finalist for the 2010 John S. Diekhoff Graduate Student Teaching and Mentoring Award.
- We would like to congratulate Phuong Dang and Julia Samorezov for receiving National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships, and Julia Samorezov for receiving a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. We would also like to congratulate Melissa Krebs for receiving an honorable mention for the Society For Biomaterial’s (SFB) Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) Award.
- Congratulations to Dr. Eben Alsberg for being named one of Crain’s Cleveland Business Forty Under 40, as well as being nominated for the Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, as well as being nominated for the Tau Beta Pi Srinivasa P. Gutti Memorial Engineering Teaching Award.
- Loran Vieregge has won 2nd Place in a poster competition during the Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine’s Retreat, congratulations!
- Congratulations to Dr. Eben Alsberg for being named an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging. Further congratulations to Melissa Krebs for winning the Society For Biomaterial’s (SFB) Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) Award, and Loran Vieregge for winning a Travel Award to the 8th World Biomaterials Congress.
- Congratulations to Andrew Fu for receiving a Medtronic Graduate Fellowship, and to Loran Vieregge for receiving a NIH-NIAMS T32 Graduate Fellowship. Further congratulations to Melissa Krebs for winning a Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
- Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Krebs for receiving the Innovation Incentive Fellowship Award.
- Congratulations to Dr. Eben Alsberg for receiving the Case Presidential Research Initiative Award.