Congratulations to Prof. Deepak Nagrath for receiving the Favorite CHBE Professor Award by the Chemical Engineering Students of 2013

Congratulations to Prof. Nagrath’s lab and Prof. Frank Tittel’s lab (ELEC, Rice University) for receiving the Hamill Innovations Award.

Congratulations to Joelle Baddour and Abhinav Achreja for passing their qualifying exams.

Congratulations to Lifeng Yang for being awarded the 2012 IBB Travel Grant!

We welcome our newest lab members: Joelle Baddour and Abhinav Achreja, first year chemical engineering graduate students!

Congratulations to Lifeng Yang for passing his Thesis proposal.

Deepak awarded John and Ann Doerr Foundation award for cancer research

Congratulations to Bahar Salimian Rizi for passing her Thesis proposal.

Deepak is invited to join the editorial board of Organogenesis Journal.

August 2012: Congratulations to Christine for publishing her manuscript in American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism.

July 2012: Congratulations to Nadege for publishing her manuscript in BBA Bioenergetics.

July 2012: Congratulations to Lifeng for publishing his first manuscript with collaborators at MD Anderson.

June 2012: Our lab welcomes Jordan Harrell who is a visiting MS student from Rice Bioengineering.

June 2012: We welcome several summer students in our lab. Niharika, Saket, Keerthana, Mia, Jennifer, and Cheryl are having great experience learning about metabolic engineering of human diseases.

May 2012: Congratulations to Lisa for getting admission in medical school at University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston. Congratulations to Delisa for getting admission into “Semester at Sea” program.

April 2012: Deepak chosen as the Favorite CHBE Professor Award by the chemical engineering students of 2012!

April 2012: Nagrath Lab congratulates Aaron Damm for successfully defending his MS thesis. Aaron is still deciding where to join (Du Pont, Flow and few more…).

Congratulations to current undergraduate in the lab, Lisa Pabst, on getting accepted to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine!

Another congratulations goes to former lab member, Syed Asad Hussein, on his acceptance to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Medicine!

We are excited to welcome first year chemical engineering graduate student Hongyun Zhao as she joins our lab.

On Sept 23, 2011, the paper “Optimality and thermodynamics determine the evolution of transcriptional regulatory networks” was accepted to the journal Molecular Biosystems, on which Dr. Nagrath shared equal contribution with the first author.

Congratulations to Lifeng, Bahar, and Aaron on passing their qualifier exams and becoming PhD candidates in the chemical and biomolecular engineering department!

Dr. Nagrath’s article in the journal “Tissue Engineering Part A” entitled “Three dimensional primary hepatocyte culture in synthetic self-assembling peptide hydrogel” is among the list of 20 of the most cited articles from 2008-2009.

http://www.liebertpub.com/whatsnew.aspx?id=53

Dr. Nagrath has joined to the editorial board of journal “Journal of Biosensor and Bioelectronics”.

http://www.omicsonline.org/EditorialboardJBSBE.php

Congratulations to Christine Caneba for receiving 2010 Edgar O’Rear Travel Grant.

Congratulations to our newest lab members: Aaron Damm, Lifeng Yang, Bahar Salimian, first year chemical engineering graduate students!

Congratulations to Professor Nagrath’s lab and Professor Grande-Allen’s lab (BIOE, RICE) for receiving the Hamill Innovations Award.

Dr. Nagrath and Dr. Wong (BME, CUNY) publish book chapter entitled Liver Tissue Engineering in Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Applications: A Review of the Past and Future Trends

Professor Deepak Nagrath’s paper Soft Constraints-Based Multiobjective Framework for Flux Balance Analysis. is accepted for publication in THE Metabolic Engineering JOURNAL.

Congratulations to new group member Christine Caneba (Bioengineering, II year) on joining the group.