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May 9, 2025 - Today was our annual spring picnic at the park. This year we bid farewell to undergraduate Zack, who is off to Penn State for his PhD. As is our lab tradition, we roasted him🔥. We wish you all the best, Zack!!
April 18, 2025 - Senior undergraduate Zack Keller did an excellent job presenting his capstone research at the MassURC poster session. Congratulations Zack!
Jan 14, 2025 - NEW PAPER ALERT. Hoi's paper detailing effects of interstitial fluid flow on tissue damage after spinal cord injury has been accepted and published at Bioengineering and Translational Medicine! The full article can be found here.
Dec 13, 2024 - Sarah is the lab's first student to pass her prelimary proposal examination! Congratulations Sarah!
May 2024 - Congratulations to Bridgit for passing her BME qualifying exams!
April 19, 2024 - Trisha did an excellent job presenting her Honors Thesis work at the Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference!
Oct 14, 2023 - Hoi did an excellent job presenting his research at the national meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society in Seattle!
Sept 2023 - We welcome Bridgit Foss to the lab! Bridgit will be studying how fluid flow and shear stress influences astrocyte function and endothelial regulation.
Aug 31, 2023 - Hoi passed his Master's thesis defense in Chemical Engineering. Congrats Hoi!
Aug 24, 2023 - Congratulations to Sarah for passing her BME qualifying exam!
Aug 10, 2023 - Annika joined us this summer as part of the MURALS REU program. Today she presented her work and an amazing job. Great to work with you Annika!
June 2023 - Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Zack, who was selected for the William Lee Science Impact Program (Lee SIP)!
June 2023 - Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Andrew, who was selected for the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program!
June 2023 - After a semester rotation, Sarah Tenney has decided to join the lab. Welcome, Sarah! She'll be studying microglia and their response to fluid flow and shear stress.
Oct 15, 2022 - Congrats to Becca and Brycen, for having the lab's first primary research article accepted for publication at Cells Tissues Organs! This manuscript is part of the Young Investigator Award series, for which Dr. Cornelison and others were selected and invited to submit. The manuscript can be found here.
May 27, 2022 - Natsai passed her qualifying exam. Congrats, Natsai!
May 14, 2022 - Congratulations to undergrads Shane, Becca, Brycen, and Kimia for graduating from UMass! They all have very bright futures ahead 🤩
April 15, 2022 - Congrats to Brycen for being selected to receive the Connecticut
Valley ACS Award for promise in research from the BMB department! Feb 21, 2022 - Becca represented our lab at the annual meeting of the Biophysical Society. She presented her work using macromolecular crowding to produce glioma cell-derived matrices. She also received a travel award to attend, congrats Becca!
Jan 5, 2022 - Becca was honored as one of nine UMass Rising Researchers for 2021! She is the first and only student from BME to receive this award. Congrats, Becca, on this prestigious and well-deserved recognition! Find out more here.
Nov 12, 2021 - Becca presented her work on cancer-cell derived matrices at the virtual Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students. Great work!
Oct 6, 2021 - We had a great time running the first UMass booth at BMES! Thanks to those who helped us run it. See you all next year in San Antonio!
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Sept 1, 2021 - Two new members join the Cornelison Group! We welcome new graduate student Natsai Prisca Nyabadza (B.S. from Smith College) and undergraduate honors thesis student Kimia Abedi (BME). We're excited to have you join us!
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Aug 25, 2021 - Sherly becomes the first student in the lab to pass her qualifying exam. Congrats Sherly!!
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May 21, 2021 - First paper of the lab is now out! Recent graduate Aleeza and I review the current state of microphysiological neural tissue models, with a special focus on fluid flow. Congratulations to Aleeza on her first paper! Read it here.
May 14, 2021 - Aleeza graduates from UMass BME and becomes the first lab alumnus! She is off to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to pursue a PhD in BME. Congratulations Aleeza, and best wishes for a bright future!
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April 13, 2021 - Sherly is selected as a Teaching Fellow for the College of Engineering! She will develop and lead her own freshman seminar course this coming fall. Congrats on the honor and opportunity, Sherly!
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March 23, 2021 - The lab will officially receive its first research grant! A Trailblazer award will be funded through the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) for 3 years to develop cancer-inspired scaffolds for neural repair. Find the press release here. Check back later for exciting updates!
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Jan 12, 2021 - First paper from the lab was submitted! An invited review on current microphysiological models of the central nervous system with incorporated fluid flow. Stay tuned for the final version!
Sept 17, 2020 - Dr. Cornelison gave a seminar at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Biomedical Engineering.
May 8, 2020 - Dr. Cornelison has been appointment as adjunct faculty in the Neuroscience and Behavior program (https://gpls.cns.umass.edu/nsb) as well as in Chemical Engineering starting 9/1/2020.
March 10, 2020 - Dr. Cornelison gave a talk entitled "Pathological fluid flow in brain cancer progression and therapy" as part of the UMass Chemical Engineering Seminar Series!
Dec 14, 2019 - The Cornelison Group has its first of many end of semester celebrations! At Kaiju Ramen, a first for everyone 😋
Nov 8, 2019 - The lab moved into our new home in the Life Science Lab building, and our first big order of tissue culture supplies arrived! Ready to make some multicellular models of neural tissue!
