Lab Highlights!
6/21/24 — Our lab will get a high content, high throughput confocal imager with help from the School of Medicine Matching Finding for Shared Equipment program and additional funding from the Department of Surgery and the Cancer Center! This will be the first of its kind on the Sacramento campus and will be shared with School of Medicine researchers!
6/1/23 — In collaboration with Drs. Cheemeng Tan and Randy Carney's labs at UC Davis, our lab is awarded a $2.5 million MPI R01 grant from NIH/NIBIB to use synthetic biology approaches to engineer "designer" extracellular vesicles! Congratulations team!
5/1/23 — In collaboration with Dr. Randy Carney's lab at UC Davis, our lab is awarded a $2.5 million MPI R01 grant from NIH/NIBIB on developing extracellular vesicle-based therapeutics for glioblastoma! Congratulations team!
4/4/23 — Congratulations to Leora Goldbloom-Helzner for receiving PhRMA Foundation's Predoctoral Fellowship in Drug Delivery!
3/21/23 — Our lab is awarded a $2 million DISC2 grant by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)! Congratulations team!
3/7/23 — Our lab is awarded a NIH R21 on in-utero non-viral gene editing for treating Canavan disease! Congratulations team!
3/7/23 — Welcome to our newest lab members, postdoc fellow Luis Eduardo Contreras Llano and PhD student Kuan-Wei Huang!
8/22/22 — Congratulations to Nataliya Bahatyrevich, M.D., our Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery resident, for being selected for a prestigious T32 federal research grant!
8/8/22 — Welcome to our newest Research Surgical Residents, Emily, Monalisa, Kathleen, and Elise!
5/26/22 — Our lab is awarded a $3 million TRAN3 grant by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)! Congratulations team!
5/10/22 -- Congratulations to Yofi Wyle for being selected as a NIH/NHLBI T32 Pre-Doctoral trainee in the UC Davis Lung Center Training Program!
4/28/22 -- Research Team Headed by Dr. Wang Receives Cultivating Team Science Award from UC Davis School of Medicine!
4/8/22 -- Congratulations to Dr. Dake Hao for receiving the prestigious 2021-2022 UC Davis Postdoctoral Research Excellence Award!
3/31/22 -- Congratulations to Leora Goldbloom-Helzner for being awarded the Professors for the Future fellowship!
3/31/22 -- Congratulations to Tanner Henson for being awarded the prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship!
2/14/22 -- Congratulations to Dr. Nataliya Bahatyrevich for her acceptance into the Postdoctoral Fellow position, supported by the NHLBI, Training Program in Basic and Translational Cardiovascular Science!
7/26/21 -- Welcome to our newest Junior Specialists, Maria, Emma, Meiby, Brandon, and Nora!
7/24/21 -- Leora passed her qualifying exam! Congrats, Leora!
7/1/21 -- Three new surgical residents joined our lab! Welcome Mary, Abdul, and Nataliya!
7/1/21 -- Congratulations to Dr. Aijun Wang for his promotion to full Professor!
5/27/21 -- Our lab is awarded a Science Translation & Innovative Research (STAIR) grant and is matched with funding from UCDSOM Dean Allison Brashear!
3/22/21 -- Congratulations to Dr. Chaoxing Zhang for receiving the Shriners hospital postdoctoral fellowship/training grant!
11/12/20 -- Our lab is awarded a $9 million CLIN2 grant by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)! Congratulations and so proud of our wonderful team!
10/1/20 -- Welcome to our newest postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Chaoxing Zhang! Chaoxing joins us from the UC Riverside Bioengineering department.
8/1/20 -- Welcome to our two newest Junior Specialists, Samantha and Sabrina!
7/1/20 -- Three new CIRM Bridges Masters' students and a new Junior Specialist joined the lab! Welcome, James, Ryan, Tyler, and Yemi!
7/1/20 -- Congratulations to the Surgical Bioengineering Laboratory Research Program Team (team leader Dr. Aijun Wang) for winning the UC Davis Health Deans’ Team Award for Excellence in Research!
5/30/20 -- Lalitha received the TRDRP pre-doctoral fellowship/training grant! Congrats, Lalitha!
3/26/20 -- Kasey received the TL1 pre-doctoral fellowship/training grant! Congrats, Kasey!
3/26/20 -- Lalitha passed her qualifying exam! Congrats, Lalitha!
1/1/20 -- Congratulations! Drs. Dake Hao and Kewa Gao both received the Shriners hospital postdoctoral fellowship/training grant!