2017

December: Dr. Baker's paper "A Novel Small-Specimen Planar Biaxial Testing System with Full In-Plane Deformation Control" is published in The Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.

November: Victoria Le publishes her paper "Syndecan-1 in mechanosensing of nanotopological cues in engineered materials." in Biomaterials.

October: Graduate Research Assistants Nikita Patil, Lei Mei, and Daniel Chavarria join the Baker Lab!

September: Visiting Scholar Sharanya Sankar from the Indian Institutes of Technology joins the Baker Lab!

September: Kayla Henderson, Drew Sligar, Victoria Le, Jason Lee and Dr. Baker publish "Biomechanical Regulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering" in Adv Healthc Mater.

September: The Baker Lab is awarded an NIH R21 grant for Glycocalyx Mimetic Polysaccharides as Therapeutics for Atherosclerosis!

July: The Baker Lab is awarded an NIH R21 grant for Syndecan-1 in Mechanosensing of Engineered Microenvironments!

July: Anthony Monteforte's paper "Glioblastoma Exosomes for Therapeutic Angiogenesis in Peripheral Ischemia" is published in Tissue Engineering.

May: Thaís Girão da Silva from the University of Sao Paulo Medical School joins the Baker Lab for a summer research project.

January: Victoria Le is awarded the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship!

2016

November: Austin Veith officially joins the lab as one of the graduate research assistants!

July: Subhamoy Das's paper "Syndecan-4 Enhances PDGF-BB Activity in Diabetic Wound Healing," is published to Acta Biomaterialia!

July: Subhamoy Das's paper "Syndesome Therapeutics for Enhancing Wound Healing in Diabetes," is published to Adv Healthc Mater!

July: Anthony Monteforte's paper "Glypican-1 nanoliposomes for potentiating growth factor activity in therapeutic angiogenesis," is published to Biomaterials!

July: Laura Indolfi's paper "A tunable delivery platform to provide local chemotherapy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma," is published to Biomaterials!

May: Subhamoy Das's paper "Syndecan-4 Enhances Therapeutic Angiogenesis after Hind Limb Ischemia in Mice with Type 2 Diabetes," is published to Adv Healthc Mater!

May: Drew Sligar officially joins the lab as one of the graduate research assistants!

May: Adrianne Spencer successfully completed her thesis proposal and is now a PhD candidate!

May: Victoria Le passes her second qualifying exam.

January: Adrianne Spencer's paper "High Throughput Label Free Measurement of Cancer Cell Adhesion Kinetics Under Hemodynamic Flow," is accepted to Scientific Report!

January: Subhamoy Das's paper "Syndecan-4 Enhances Therapeutic Angiogenesis after Hind Limb Ischemia in Mice with Type 2 Diabetes," is accepted to Advanced Healthcare Materials!

January: "Computational analysis of fluid flow within a device for applying biaxial strain to cultured cells" chosen as one of 2015 Editor's Choice Paper at Lab on a Chip!

2015

December: Kayla Henderson officially joins the lab as one of the graduate research assistant!

December: Jason Lee successfully completed his thesis proposal and is now a PhD candidate!

November: Anthony Monteforte successfully completed his thesis proposal and is now a PhD candidate!

November: Adrianne Spencer's paper "A High-Throughput Mechanofluidic Screening Ploatform for Investigating Circulating Tumor Cell Adhesion During Metastasis," is accepted to Lab on a Chip!

November: Eri Takematsu officially joins the lab as one of the graduate research assistant!

September: Marjan Majid is selected for the Kuhn Scholarship IE Award!

August: Peter Voyvodic successfully completed his thesis defense and is now a Post-Doctoral Fellow!

August: Dr. Baker is awarded the W.A. "Tex" Moncrief Challenge Award!

May: Dr. Baker is elected as one of the Fellow of the American Heart Association (F.A.H.A.)!

April: Victoria Le passes her Qualification Exam!

April: Subhamoy Das's paper "Nanoscale Strategies: Treatment for Peripheral Vascular Disease and Critical Limb Ischemia," is accepted to American Chemical Society Nano!

March: Jason Lee's paper "Computational analysis of fluid flow within a device for applying biaxial strain to cultured cells," is accepted to Journal of Biomechanical Engineering!

February: Victoria Le's work on "Murine model of femoral artery wire injury with implantation of a perivascular drug delivery patch," is accepted to Journal of Visualized Experiments! More

2014

October: Subhamoy Das successfully presents his talk in BMES 2014!

October: Victoria Le successfully presents her talk in BMES 2014!

October: Anthony Monteforte successfully presents his talk in BMES 2014!

October: Jason Lee successfully presents his poster in BMES 2014!

October: Adrianne Shearer successfully presents her poster in BMES 2014!

October: Peter Voyvodic successfully presents his poster in BMES 2014!

August: Subhamoy Das and Victoria Le got the BMES 2014 Student Travel Award!

August: Subhamoy Das is awarded the ATVB Travel Award for Young Investigators!

August: Subhamoy Das successfully completed his thesis defense and is now a Post-Doctoral Fellow!

July: Jason Lee, Adrianne Shearer, and Peter Voyvodic's abstracts are accepted for 2014 BMES Conference Poster Presentations!

July: Subhamoy Das, Victoria Le, and Anthony Monteforte's abstracts are accepted for 2014 BMES Conference Talks!

May: Subhamoy Das wins first place for student competition presentation in Biomaterials Day at Texas A&M University!!

May: Subhamoy Das and Anthony Monteforte selected for presentation finalists among candidates for Biomaterials Day at Texas A&M University!

April: Dr. Baker receives grant from The Welch Foundation for Novel Drug Delivery Research!

April: Peter Voyvodic receives SFB Poster Award for Cardiovascular track!

April: Collin Johnson receives CNS Award for Excellence in Public Health, Nutrition, or Biomedical Sciences Research!

April: Adrianne Shearer receives the NSF Fellowship!

April: Anthony Monteforte receives honorable mention for the NSF Fellowship!

April: Anthony Montefort's work on peripheral arterial disease (PAD) features in the news of The Office of Technology Commercialization! Link

February: Subhamoy Das's abstract "Syndecan-4 Proteoliposomes Enhance Cutaneous Wound Healing and Induce Neovascularization in Ischemic Limb in a Diabetic Hyperlipidemic Mouse" gets accepted for a talk at the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) Conference of 2014 at Denver!

February: Dr. Baker gives a talk in Lynn W. McCraw Lecture Series on "Reenginnering Growth Factor Signaling in Ischemic Disease"!

February: Peter Voyvodic's paper "Loss of Syndecan-1 Induces a Pro-Inflammatory Phenotype in Endothelial Cells with a Dysregulated Response to Atheroprotective Flow," is accepted to Journal of Biological Chemistry!

January: Dr. Chaterji's paper "Syndecan-1 Regulates Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype," is accepted to PLOS One!

January: Dr. Chaterji's paper "Synergistic Effects of Matrix Nanotopography and Stiffness on Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Function," is accepted to Tissue Engineering, Part A!

2013

December: Robert Liu, Evan Williams, Gunjan Singh, Matthew Martinez, Emmanuel Parlou, Alan Phung, Seung Choe, Eun Yoon, and Brian Lam have successfully presented their research posters at UT Austin BME Undergraduate Research Symposium!

November: Subhamoy Das and Gunjan Singh presented their research to the Biomedical Engineering External Advisory Committee!

November: Dr. Chaterji has successfully presented her research at the AHA Scientific Sessions 2013!

October: Dr. Chaterji's abstract "A peptide-based switch to alter the phenotype of vascular smooth muscle cells," receives ATVB Early Career Travel Award for AHA!

September: Subhamoy Das's paper "Overcoming Disease-Induced Growth Factor Resistance in Therapeutic Angiogenesis Using Recombinant Co-Receptors Delivered by a Liposomal System," is accepted to Biomaterials!

September: Jason Lee and Mitchell Wong's paper "A novel system for studying mechanical strain waveform-dependent responses in vascular smooth muscle cells," is accepted to Lab on a Chip!

August: Dr. Baker gives a talk in Biology Symposium of InCor!

August: Dr. Baker participates in Federacao de Sociedades de Biologia Experimental (FeSBE) of 2013 in Brazil!

August: Anthony Monteforte receives BMES Student Travel Awards of 2013!

August: Dr. Chaterji's abstract "The Combined Effect of Matrix Stiffness and Nanotopography on the Regulation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Function" gets accepted for a talk at the BMES Annual Conference of 2013!

July: Dr. Chaterji's abstract "Synstatin: A Peptide-Based Switch to Alter the Phenotype of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells" gets accepted for a talk in AHA conference in November!

July: Anthony Monteforte's abstract "Glypican-1 Proteoliposomes Enhance Angiogenic Activity of Delivered Growth Factors" gets accepted for a talk at the BMES Annual Conference of 2013!

July: Subhamoy Das's abstract "Alleviation of Disrupted Growth Factor Signaling in a Diabetic Mouse Model" gets accepted for a poster presentation at the BMES Annual Conference of 2013!

July: Jason Lee's abstract "A Flexible System for Studying Mechanical Stretch Waveform-Mediated Signaling in Vascular Cells" gets accepted for a poster presentation at the BMES Annual Conference of 2013!

July: Peter Voyvodic's abstract "Syndecan-1 Regulates Mechanotransduction Pathways in Endothelial Cells in Response to Shear Stress" gets accepted for a poster presentation at the BMES Annual Conference of 2013!

May: Dr. Baker gives a talk in Biomaterials Day!

May: Gunjan Singh receives Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship!

May: Jason Lee and Anthony Monteforte pass their Qualification Exam!

May: Collin Johnson receives Health Sciences Fellowship ($4000) from SouthWest Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association (AHA) for this summer!

April: Gunjan Singh won the first prize ($300) in the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Pre–Graduate School Internship Poster Competition!

March: Collin Johnson abstract "Heparanase Alters Endothelial Phenotype, Leukocyte Attachment and Atherosclerotic Plaque Formation" gets accepted for the American Heart Association ATVB 2013 Conference at Orlando!

March: Dr. Chaterji's abstract "The Edge Effect: How Syndecan-1 Can Increase the Therapeutic Efficacy of Vasoregulatory Drugs and Growth Factors" gets accepted for the American Heart Association ATVB 2013 Scientific Sessions at Orlando!

February: Dr. Baker has been selected as one of the 2013 Frontiers in Bioengineering Workshop Young Investigators and participated in the workshop at Georgia Tech's Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience!

2012

December: Daniel Min, Robert Liu, Evan Williams, and Gunjan Singh have successfully presented their research posters at UT Austin BME Undergraduate Research Symposium!

November: Dr. Chaterji presents in American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2012 at Los Angeles titled "Loss of Syndecan-1 Results in De-differentiation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells."

November: Peter Voyvodic and Daniel Min present a poster to the Biomedical Engineering External Advisory Committee!

November: Christopher Spruell and Dr. Baker's paper "Analysis of a High-Throughput Cone-and-Plate Apparatus for the Application of Defined Spatiotemporal Flow to Cultured Cell" is published in Biotechnology and Bioengineering!

October: Peter Voyvodic presents "Syndecan-1 Regulates Shear Stress-Induced Mechanotransduction Pathways in Endothelial Cells" at BMES 2012 at Atlanta!

September: Dr. Baker participates in TexTalks panel hosted by Cancer Alliances University of Texas at Austin!

September: Dr. Baker has been selected to present at the 8th Annual NIH Director's Pioneer Award Symposium as one of the seven New Innovator Awardees!

August: Dr. Baker presents in a seminar talk titled "New Faculty Top 10 Things They Need to Hear" at University of Texas at Austin!

August: Dr. Baker is co-author on an abstract "Adventitial inflammation is associated with thin-cap atheromas and expression of matrix-degrading. Enzymes and occurs in coronary regions exposed to low endothelial shear stress." gets accepted to be presented in the European Society of Cardiology Congress at Munich, Germany!

August: Dr. Baker is featured in the MIT news article for his contribution to scaffold studies!

July: Peter Voyvodic's paper "A Multichannel Flow System for Studies on Shear Stress-Mediated Mechanotransduction," is accepted to Lab on a Chip!

June: Dr. Baker is co-author on the paper "The role of scaffold microarchitecture in engineering endothelial cell immunomodulation," accepted to Biomaterials!

May: Dr. Baker presents "Syndecan-1 Regulates Shear Stress-Induced Alterations in Endothelial Cell Morphology and Cytoskeletal Rearrangement" in the Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference (SBEC) in Houston!

April: Collin Johnson receives College of Natural Sciences (CNS) Travel Grant for his research for ATVB 2012 in Chicago!

April: Collin Johnson receives a College of Natural Sciences Award for Excellence in Research from 2012 Undergraduate Research Forums!

2011

October: Peter Voyvodic presents "Syndecan-1 Mediates Endothelial Cell Mechanotransduction in Response to Shear Stress" at BMES 2011 at Hartford!

September: Dr. Baker has won the NIH New Innovator award! See feature story for more info.

July: Moy's abstract is accepted for presentation at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions!

June: Daniel Min is awarded a Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship in the lab!

April: Peter and Moy's abstracts are accepted for presentation at the Biomedical Engineering Society Conference!

February: Dr. Chatzizisis and Dr. Baker's paper, "Augmented expression and activity of extracellular matrix-degrading enzymes in regions of low endothelial shear stress colocalize with coronary atheromata with thin fibrous caps in pigs," is published in Circulation!

January: Dr. Baker is nominated as a leading innovator by the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST)!

January: Joseph Francis' paper, "stromal endothelial cells directly influence cancer progression," is accepted to Science: Translational Research!

2010

December: Dr. Baker's paper, "regulation of heparanase expression in coronary artery disease in diabetic, hyperlipidemic swine," is accepted to Atherosclerosis!

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