2026

September 2026: Zoe Smith awarded the Northeastern University 2026 Women Who Empower Innovator Award!

September 2026: Amir gave a talk “Matrix Codes of Schlemm’s Canal Mechanosensing: Implications for Outflow Resistance” at ISER 2026 in Valencia, Spain.

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June 2026: Brooke, Daniel, David, Mohak, and Sophia each gave a poster presentation of their projects at the Bioengineering Symposium 2026.
Congratulations to Brooke and Mohak for receiving first- and second-place awards, respectively, by audience vote for their poster presentations!

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April 2026: Our lab received the Macular Degeneration New Investigator Grant Program award from the BrightFocus Foundation for building an outer-retina-on-a-chip platform for macular degeneration studies!

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April 2026: Congratulations to Jackson for receiving the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP)!

Academic research poster presentation at a conference, with a smiling man partially visible on the right, standing in front of the poster, titled 'Liquid Metal-Integrated Elastomeric Micropillar Platform for Force Sensing in Engineered Skeletal Muscle' by researchers from Northeastern University and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.

June 2026: Daniel, David, Fabiana, and Sophia presented their poster at the Northeastern College of Engineering PhD Research Expo!

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April 2026: David and Samantha gave oral presentations at Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC) 2026 in Philadelphia, PA.

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May 2026: Brooke and Daniel each gave a poster presentation highlighting their respective research projects at ARVO 2026 in Denver.

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April 2026: Keerthi gave an oral presentation at Northeastern's RISE Expo titled "Trabecular Meshwork-on-a-Chip".