- Ernie Gemeinhart moved to the University of Central Florida, his last day was July 6, 2010.
- The lab has temporarily--for the summer--grown to more than double size with the additions of Adrian Stecula (Univ. Michigan), Jessica Stark (Cornell University), Megan Hogdson (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Jamie Rayahin (UIC PharmD/PhD rotation), Jason Buhrman (UIC MD/PhD rotation), Kristen Kopf (RET; Elk Grove), and Grace Cao (IMSA).
- Kristin Thomas successfully defended her M.S. Thesis, "Assessment of Protein Adsorption into and Absorption onto Hydrogels".
- Mohammad Rahman successfully defended his M.S. Thesis, "Assessment of Hydrogel Parameters in Hydrogel Therapeutics".
- Kristin Thomas won 2nd place in the Image of Research competetion sponsored by the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Chicago with her image entitled "Water water everywhere nor any drop to drink". She accepted the award on April 15, 2010.
- Melanie Köllmer was selected the 1st place predoctoral (PharmD, PhD, or MS) poster at the College of Pharmacy Research Day by a panel of alumni and faculty judges for her poster entitled "Porous hydrogel scaffolds support chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells".
- Milind Gandhi, Ph.D. was selected the 3rd place postdoctoral poster at the College of Pharmacy Research Day by a panel of alumni and faculty judges for his poster entitled "Fabrication, characterization and in vivo assessment of superporous hydrogels".
- 07/06/2010
- Ernie Gemeinhart had his last day today. Ernie will be joining the University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL) in about a week and a half. He has been only member of the group (other than the PI, Dr. Gemeinhart) who has been at UIC since the group was founded.
- 07/02/2010
- Kristin Thomas successfully defended her M.S. Thesis, "Assessment of Protein Adsorption into and Absorption onto Hydrogels".
- 06/30/2010
- Dr. Gemeinhart attended the F09 Fellowship Study Section as an ad hoc member.
- 06/21/2010
- Jason Burhman, a MD/PhD student, began his rotation in the group.
- 06/07/2010
- Jamie Rayahin, an undergraduate Biological Sciences major from the Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago, joined the lab as a NIH-sponsored undergraduate research assistant.
- 06/01/2010
- Megan Hodgson, an undergraduate Biomedical Engineering major at Johns Hopkins Univeristy, joined the lab as a NIH-sponsored undergraduate research assistant.
- 05/31/2010
- Adrian Stecula, an undergraduate Chemical Engineering major at the Univeristy of Michigan, joined the lab as a NSF-sponsored undergraduate research assistant through the REU program in the Department of Bioengineering.
- 05/24/2010
- Jessica Stark, an undergraduate Chemical Engineering major at Cornell Univeristy, joined the lab as a NIH-sponsored undergraduate research assistant.
- Dr. Gemeinhart participated in a grant review panel for the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) program.
- 05/17/2010
- Dr. Gemeinhart attended the NIH BTSS Study Section as an ad hoc member.
- 05/16/2010
- Mary Tang joined the research group. She will be deciding her Dissertation project in the coming months.
- 05/06/2010
- At the UIC College of Pharmacy Commencement, Dr. Gemeinhart hooded recent (and near future) graduates Vandana Keskar, Ph.D., Deepali Vartak, Ph.D., and Kristin Thomas, M.S. (in order of defense).
- 05/15/2010
- David Vaynshteyn ended his P4 rotation.
- 04/26/2010
- Dr. Gemeinhart gave a seminar and visited the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL.
- 04/15/2010
- Vivian Wei-Hua Chen, M.S., joined the lab as a Volunteer Research Assistant.
- Kristin Thomas won 2nd place in the Image of Research competetion sponsored by the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Chicago with her image entitled "Water water everywhere nor any drop to drink".
- 04/09/2010
- Mohammad Rahman successfully defended his M.S. Thesis, "Assessment of Hydrogel Parameters in Hydrogel Therapeutics".
- 03/29/2010
- David Vaynshteyn, a PharmD student, began his P4 rotation under the direction of Dr. Gemeinhart.
- 02/26/2010
- Melanie Köllmer was selected the 1st place predoctoral (PharmD, PhD, or MS) poster at the College of Pharmacy Research Day by a panel of alumni and faculty judges for her poster entitled "Porous hydrogel scaffolds support chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells".
- Milind Gandhi, Ph.D. was selected the 3rd place postdoctoral poster at the College of Pharmacy Research Day by a panel of alumni and faculty judges for his poster entitled "Fabrication, characterization and in vivo assessment of superporous hydrogels".
- 02/11/2010
- Dr. Gemeinhart attended the NIH BTSS Study Section as an ad hoc member.
- 01/12/2010
- Amy Ross, a M.S. student from Bioengineering, joined the group. We have established her research project in analysis of Cell-derived MMP diffusion into hydrogels.
- 01/11/2010
- Mary Tang joined the group as a rotation student for the semester.
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