Guvendiren Lab

Instructive Biomaterials and Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (IBAM-Lab)

Emily

IBAM-Lab NEWS

Lab News from 2017

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January 16, 2018

NEW COURSE in MAKERSPACE - CHE 702: Additive Manufacturing and Applications!

Dr. Guvendiren is offering a new course on Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing) this semester. The course utilizes the new Makerspace Facility at NJIT. The course is designed for engineering graduate students, and currently offered as an elective in Chemical Engineering Department. More details about the course content see our dedicated page for Teaching.

 

30 students (15 PhD + 15 MS candidates) enrolled in this course from CHE, BME, MSE, and CE. Below are the snapshots from one of the lecture and hands-on 3D printing sections in Makerspace.

December 8, 2017

Engineering Career Day at NJIT :)

We did it again !!! This time we had more than 800 high school students. Very energetic and eager to learn !!!

 

IBAM-Lab represented Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering (CBPE) Department during the Engineering Career Day. Dr. Guvendiren delivered a short presentation on "Chemical Engineering as a Career" and presented the CBPE department. We also demonstrated 3D printing of chocolate (thanks to Shen Ji and Dr. Chya-Yan Liaw) and key chains with NJIT logo.

Currently we have 25 student seating for lecture and 10 Ultimaker3 printers for hands-on laboratory portion.

December 6, 2017

Two Projects for URI Student Expo  !!!

IBAM-Lab was represented by two URI projects in the Undergraduate Research & Innovation Student Expo 2017, which took place in Somerset, NJ. The event was hosted by Rangam Consultants.

 

Emily Almeida (ChE) presented her work titled "3D Bioprinting of Vascularized Networks Using Hydrogels". Shawn Huynh (ChE) presented his work with Tej Patel (ChE) titled "Hybrid 3D Printer for Fabrication of Scaffolds with Multi-scale Complexity". Special thanks to Dr. Chya-Yan Liaw and Shen Ji for their support and mentoring.

November 10, 2017

Highlighting Our Two Recent Publications !!!

IBAM-Lab has two new publications. These publications are the proof of our interdisciplinary and collaborative work.

 

First publication is a fruit of our NSF grant (PI: Guvendiren, Co-PI: Joachim Kohn - Rutgers), a collaboration between New Jersey Center for Biomaterials at Rutgers and IBAM-Lab at NJIT. "The control of stem cell morphology and differentiation using three-dimensional printed scaffold architecture" is published in MRS Communications. [Link]

 

Our second publication is a new collaboration with FDA, titled "Functionally-relevant morphological profiling: a tool to assess cellular heterogeneity", which is published online in Trends in Biotechnology. [Link]

October 29 - November 3, 2017

2017 AIChE Annual Meeting and CBPE Department Reception !!!

Dr. Guvendiren attended AiCHE Meeting in Minneapolis. Great time to network and cultivate new ideas. We also had our Department Reception. Thanks for everyone who make this happen.

October 23-24, 2017

2017 NJ Symposium on Biomaterials Science

IBAM-Lab attended 2017 NJ Symposium on Biomaterials Science - Pharmaceutical Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine: From Concept to Manufacturing. Dr. Guvendiren delivered an invited talk on "Additive manufacturing in medicine: Emerging opportunities and challenges". Shen presented his poster, titled "Rapidly constructing 3D vascular networks with photocurable and sacrificial hydrogels", co-authored with Emily Almeida (undergrad, CHE), and Chya-Yan Liaw.

October 13, 2017

Printing Chocolate for Engineering Career Day at NJIT :)

IBAM-Lab represented Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering (CBPE) Department during the Engineering Career Day. Dr. Guvendiren delivered a short presentation on "Chemical Engineering as a Career" and presented the CBPE department. We also demonstrated 3D printing of chocolate (thanks to Shen Ji) and key chains with NJIT logo. We also distributed key chains to students. Key chain designs are selected from designs developed by the undergraduate students taking Dr. Guvendiren's 3d printing course. Designs are created for a design challenge competition in the hands-on lab section.

July 27, 2017

NJIT International Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium !!!

Emily Almeida (CHE, NJIT)), Jorge Pereyra (CHE, NJIT), and Jolene Cobb (Physics, Siena College) successfully presented their work in IBAM-Lab during the 10th International Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium at NJIT. The event was a blast with a lot of attendance. We congratulate Emily, Jorge, and Jolene as well as their mentors Dr. Chya-Yan and Shen Ji. We are also grateful for the McNair Summer Research Institute Program (Emily and Jorge) and the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program (Jolene).

July 21, 2017

Guvendiren Lab Summer Barbecue !!!

We had a great time during the first Guvendiren Lab summer barbecue. Thanks for everyone for being a part of these festivities.

July 1, 2017

NEW GRANT from Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Foundation !!!

Many thanks to the SPE Foundation for supporting our efforts to develop a new course on 3D printing. This funding will be used to purchase 3D printers for hands-on laboratory section of the course benefiting undergraduate and graduate students at NJIT. Details to follow.

 

June 1, 2017

IBAM-Lab Summer Program Starts !!!

We are very excited to announce that our first summer program starts. We will host 4 undergraduate students and 2 high school students this summer.

 

April 4, 2017

Congratulations to Chya-Yan Liaw!

Chya-Yan's first paper from IBAM-Lab is published in Biofabrication journal. Her paper titled "Current and Emerging Applications of 3D Printing in Medicine".

 

 

April 6, 2017

The Society for Biomaterials Meeting

Dr. Guvendiren organized and chaired a session on 3D Bioprinting. He also delivered a talk titled "3D printed scaffolds architecture controls stem cell morphology and differentiation".

 

April 4, 2017

Student Grant! 

Congrats to Shwan and Tej! Our undergraduate student members Shawn Huynh and Tej Patel are awarded a Phase-2 URI Student Grant to pursue their proposed research project on development of a hybrid 3d printer for tissue engineering applications.

 

April 4, 2017

Congratulations to Shen Ji! Our first paper published!

Shen's paper titled "Recent Advances in Bioink Design for 3D Bioprinting of Tissues and Organs" is published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. This mini review is based on Shen's qualifier report.

 

March 21, 2017

Invited Plenary Talk! 

Dr. Guvendiren gave a plenary talk titled "Applications of Additive Manufacturing in Medicine" at Rowan University.

 

March 16, 2017

Student Grant! 

Our undergraduate student member Faizur Piuli is awarded a Phase-2 URI Student Grant to pursue her proposed research project on development of novel cardiac tissue models. This will be collaborative project with Eun Lee lab.

 

March 16, 2017

Student Grant! 

Our undergraduate student member Hazal Yalcin is awarded an NSF I-Corps Site at NJIT Undergraduate Student Grant.

 

February 24, 2017

Invited Plenary Talk! 

Dr. Guvendiren delivered an invited plenary talk during 2017 Mid-Atlantic Biomaterials Day held at The City College of New York in New York.

 

September 21, 2017

New Life Sciences and Engineering Center Opened !!!

Very proud to be an NJIT faculty. Today NJIT opened a new Life Sciences and Engineering Center, which is connected to the currently existing York Center. The building offers state-of-art shared laboratory space and equipment to facilitate collaborative research. Many thanks to everyone who participate in efforts to make this happen !!!

 

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September 5, 2017

3D Printing Class Kickoff !!!

Dr. Guvendiren starts Fall 2017 Semester with a new elective course on 3D Printing. "Introduction to 3-D Printing" is an undergraduate level elective course for engineering students. Many thanks to our Dean Moshe Kam (Newark College of Engineering), Chair Lisa Axe (CBPE Department), and Daniel Brateris (Director Experiential Learning) our course has a temporary location for this Spring Semester. We are also very grateful to Shawn Yetman (CBPE Lab Manager).

 

Follow the link for more information about this course.

September 1, 2017

First Year Anniversary @ NJIT !!!

We have laid a strong foundation during our 1st year at NJIT. I am very grateful to my team, my department, my friends and my family for their support and patience. Our new webpage is also now on-line ! Cheers !!!!

August 4, 2017

NJIT The Provost High School Summer Research Internship Poster Symposium !!!

Sessina Dani and Ian Casaren presented their work. We had great time during the Symposium.

Group picture with Ian's family and Sessina's mother!

From left to right: Emily, Cha-Yan, Ian and his parents, Dr. Guvendiren, Sessina and her mother, and Jolene.

From left (upwards): Faizur, Hazal, Murat, Chya-Yan, Shawn, Tej, and Jorge.

From right (upwards): Ian, Shen, Emily, Sessina, Ecem, and Jolene.

We are very proud to receive our Certificate of Appreciation plaques from Prof. Angelo Perna, the Director of the Ronald E. McNair Achievement Program. Special congratulations to Jorge and Emily, and their mentors Dr. Chya-Yan and Shen Ji

Jorge

From left-to-right: Associate Chair and Associate Prof. Ecevit Bilgili, Ass. Prof. Murat Guvendiren, Chair and Prof. Lisa Axe, Distinguished Prof. Rajesh Dave, and Dr. Ilgaz Akseli (Director at Celgene).

Dr. Guvendiren with Ian and Sessina.

Everyone likes cupcakes (with Alex) !!!

Jolene

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