News Archives 2020 Hilton Head 2020 Workshop accepted papers are quickly peer-reviewed and published in a special issue Remembering Lynn Preston, Longtime friend and ERC architect from the ISR and UMD passes away MSAL’s interdisciplinary work delivers significant progress on understanding the gut-brain-axis (GBA) in three new publications Ashley Chapin is recognized with the 2019-20 Fischell Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering Drs. Bentley, Payne, and Ghodssi team collaborations are featured in ACS on advances in bio-based communication networks Ryan Huiszoon completes his Ph.D. in August 2020 Ashley Chapin presented an excellent informative talk on the gut-brain-axis at MAMNA New journal publications in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical and the Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS) feature work by MSAL student, Justin Stine In addition to a paper published in Lab on a Chip, Dr. Reza Ghodssi and his group receive an NSF grant to explore gut inflammation With her work on the gut-brain-axis, Ashley Chapin wins the University of Maryland Three-Minute Thesis Competition Hyun Jung and his team took third place overall in MoNuSAC 2020 Dr. Reza Ghodssi urges the writing of review articles as a beneficial use of research time during pandemic restrictions AIM-HI funds MSAL research on chronic pain Dr. Ekaterina Pomerantseva, a former MSAL postdoctoral associate has been promoted to an Associate Professor with tenure MSAL Alumnus, Brendan Hanrahan (MSE Ph.D. 2013), has raised close to $19 million for Neurofibromatosis (NF) research through Cupid's Charity
