2024 September UAB startup Endomimetics receives $2.8 million Small Business Innovation Research grant https://www.uab.edu/news/research/item/14353-uab-startup-endomimetics-receives-2-8-million-small-business-innovation-research-grant

2024 January 3D in vitro human atherosclerosis model for high-throughput drug screening  https://www.uab.edu/news/research/item/13933-3d-in-vitro-human-atherosclerosis-model-for-high-throughput-drug-screening

2024 January Congratulations Harsha on acceptance to UAB School of Dentistry, U Penn School of Dental Medicine, and Columbia University College of Dental Medicine.

2023 December Congratulations Dr. Jun on being awarded for the School of Engineering Innovation Fellow.

2023 December Congratulations Thomas on acceptance to UAB School of Dentistry and UNC School of Dentistry.

2023 December Congratulations Krishna on acceptance to UAB Heersink School of Medicine.

2023 November; Endomimetics™ Awarded $292 Thousand, One-Year NIH/SBIR Grant to Develop and Evaluate Potential of Bionanomatrix™ to Reduce Infectious and Inflammatory Complications of Knee Arthroplasty https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/11/07/2775078/0/en/Endomimetics-Awarded-292-Thousand-One-Year-NIH-SBIR-Grant-to-Develop-and-Evaluate-Potential-of-Bionanomatrix-to-Reduce-Infectious-and-Inflammatory-Complications-of-Knee-Arthroplast.html   https://finance.yahoo.com/news/endomimetics-awarded-292-thousand-one-130000607.html#:~:text=Endomimetics%E2%84%A2%20Awarded%20%24292%20Thousand,Inflammatory%20Complications%20of%20Knee%20Arthroplasty

2022 September; Endomimetics received the Innovative Alabama Supplemental Grant. https://www.uab.edu/innovation/news-articles/seven-uab-start-ups-receive-grants-from-alabama-innovation-corporation

2022 April; Collaborative work with Professor Jeonga Kim in Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology is featured by UAB News. “…in the study, “Subcutaneous administration of nitric oxide-releasing nanomatrix gel ameliorates obesity and insulin resistance in high fat diet-induced obese mice…,”

2022 March; Featured by UAB NEWS Heart disease: NIH grant to UAB will fund study of safer, more durable stents

2022 February Congratulations Dr. Jun on the UAB School of Medicine 2021/2022 AMC 21 Multi-Principal Investigator Award along with Dr. Timmy Lee and Dr. Jeonga Kim.

2021 December; Featured by UAB NEWS Gel to improve development of an arteriovenous fistula holds promise for kidney-dialysis patient care https://www.uab.edu/news/research/item/12511-gel-to-improve-development-of-an-arteriovenous-fistula-holds-promise-for-kidney-dialysis-patient-care

2021 December Congratulations Donald Ho on acceptance to UAB Dental School.

2021 March Congratulations Tyler Lynd on acceptance to UAB Medical School.

2020 December Congratulations Pratheek Bobba on acceptance to Yale University Medical School.

2020 January Congratulations Pratheek Bobba on the Outstanding BME Undergraduate Student of the Year.

2019 December Congratulations Xixi Zhang on American Heart Association Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.

2019 September Congrats xixi on the 2019 Graduate Student Government Travel Award.

2019 September Congrats Henry on 3rd Place, UAB Undergraduate Research EXPO

2019 August Congrats Henry on NIH/NIDDK Short-Term Research Experience for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP)

2018 December Congrats Bobba on 1st place in the Engineering Division of the Fall 2018 UAB Undergraduate Expo

2018 September Congrats Pratheek Bobba on 3rd place in the undergraduate division of the 2018 Alabama EPSCOR Science and Technology Open House

2018 October Dental revitalization paper was featured by PhysicsWorld. https://physicsworld.com/a/gel-filling-enhances-root-canal-treatment/

2018 September Congratulations Jun Chen on 1st Place in the Tranee Poster Award at the UAB Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center 7th Annual Symposium

2018 August Congratulations Alex on 1st place in the Engineering Category, UAB Undergraduate Research Summer Expo.https://www.uab.edu/undergraduateresearch/summer-expo

2018 July Congratulations Jun Chen on American Heart Association Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

2018 January Congratulations Grant on selection as the School of Engineering’s Outstanding Graduate Student Engineer and as the Department of Biomedical Engineering’s Outstanding Graduate Student Engineer.

2017 November Alex Garcia won a Poster Award for the Category of “Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics” at Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS).

2017 October Care could improve for dialysis patients with development of bionanomatrix gel with $2 million granthttp://www.uab.edu/news/focus-on-patient-care/item/8759-care-could-improve-for-dialysis-patients-with-development-of-bionanomatrix-gel-with-2-million-grant

2017 August Dr. Jun is elected as a Fellow of the American Heart Association.

2017 April Congratulations Meggie Collier on winning the Goldwater Scholarship! UAB STEM undergraduates named Goldwater Scholars

2017 January Congratulations Alex (Co-Mentored with Dr.Kyounga Cheon at Pediatric Dentistry) on acceptance to Harvard University School of Dental Medicine.

2016 December Congratulations Dishant and Alex on winning first place in Engineering Category at 2016 UAB Fall EXPO.

2016 November Congratulations Asher on winning first place at 2016 Medical Student Research Day.

2016 September Dr. Jun becomes a Director of Graduate Program, Department of Biomedical Engineering.

2016 September Dr. Jun is promoted from an Associate professor to a Professor.

2016 April  Grant receives the Alabama EPSCoR GRSP Fellowship

2016 April  Million-dollar NIH investment accelerates UAB spinoff company

2016 April Lily won 1st place at the University of Alabama Systems Honor Conference

2016 April In 2016 UAB EXPO:  David Chasteen-Boyd and Lily Deng won 1st place in the Engineering oral presentation.   Maggie Collier won 2nd Place in Engineering Poster Presentation

2016 March Sagar wins 2nd place in the Clinical – Predoctoral Category, 2016 School of Dentistry Scholar’Symposium.

2016 February Grant wins 2nd place in the biological science PhD poster category in the Alabama EPSCoR Science and Technology Open House.

2016 January Patrick Hwang wins the Outstanding Student Engineer of the Year for the School of Engineering.

2015 November Sagar Kaushik (co-mentored with Dr. Kyounga Cheon, Pediatric Dentistry) won the National Award with dental revitalization project. This story is posted on the UAB magazine. https://www.uab.edu/mix/stories/so-long-root-canals-student-s-work-on-new-treatment-wins-national-award

2015 August Sagar (Co-mentored with Dr. Kyounga Cheon, Pediatric Dentistry) won the BMES Graduate Design and Research Awards in the BMES Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL! Award ceremony will be at the BMES Plenary Session on October 9.

2015 June Grant won NIH Pre-Doctoral Cardiovascular Pathophysiology Training Grant. Congratulations!

2015 June Grant receives the Alabama EPSCoR GRSP Fellowship

2014 November Lily Deng won the best poster in the Business, Engineering, and Computer Science category at this year’s National Collegiate Honors Council Conference in Denver. http://www.uab.edu/engineering/home/209-news/1029-bme-undergraduate-deng-wins-high-honor-at-nchc

2014 October Grant was selected as a finalist for the Featheringill Young Investigator Award at the 2014 Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center Symposium. http://www.uab.edu/engineering/home/209-news/1024-bme-student-selected-as-featheringill-young-investigator-finalist

2014 September ACS Nano paper by Professor Young-Sup Yoon at Emory Medical School has been featured by C&EN. Great colllaboration! http://cen.acs.org/articles/92/web/2014/09/Nanogel-Delivers-Cellular-Patches-Damaged.html

2014 April Lily Deng is selected as the Beckman Scholar by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

2014 April In 2014 UAB BME symposium: Dhruv Patel got 1st place of undergraduate senior design presentation Grant Alexander got 1st place in Poster Presentation Patrick Hwang got 1st place in Oral Presentation

2014 April Taneidra was accepted into the PREP Scholar Program

2014 March Patrick won the 1st place, 2014 UAB Graduate Student Research Days: Life Sciences/Biomedical Sciences Oral Session

2014 March Dhruv is awarded the Warner Moore Fellowship from Alpha Lambda Delta.

2014 January Sagar Kaushik has been selected to receive the School of Engineering Undergraduate Research Award. He will receive $2,500 for summer research.

2014 January Lily Deng has been selected to receive the School of Engineering Undergraduate Research Award. She will receive $2,500 for summer research.

2013 October Adi wins the Featheringill Young Investigator Award in the Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center Symposium

2013 August Dhruv is on the UAB Magazine for Beckman Scholars. http://www.uab.edu/uabmagazine/2013/july/beckman

2013 July Dhruv  wins the Alabama Society of Professional Engineers (ASPE) Engineering Student of the Year Award

2013 May Patrick receives the Alabama EPSCoR GRSP Fellowship

2013 April Austin receives American Heart Association Health Science Fellowship

2013 April Adi wins the third place for graduate oral presentation at the Biomedical Engineering Research Symposium

2013 April Dhruv wins the first place for undergraduate poster presentation at the Biomedical Engineering Research Symposium

2013 March Patrick Hwang wins the first place in the Biomedical & Life Sciences Session at the 2013 Graduate Student Research Days competition.

2013 February Adinarayana Andukuri is named the UAB Graduate Student Engineer of the Year

2013 February Dhruv Patel is named the UAB Undergraduate Student Engineer of the Year

2012 November Adinarayana Andukuri is awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Engineer in Biomedical Engineering

2012 November Dhruv Patel is awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Engineer in Biomedical Engineering

2012 April Dhruv Patel is selected as the Beckman Scholar. UAB has recently been awarded its first ever Beckman Scholars Program Award by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Dhruv Patel is one of the first Beckman Scholars.

2012 April Dhruv Patel wins the first place at the UAB Expo in the Division of Engineering Research.

2012 April George Waits receives the American Heart Association Summer Fellowship in Cardiovascular Biology. George is a medical student at UAB and join in our lab this summer.

2012 March 3D cotton-ball like electrospun nanoscaffold is featured by The American Ceramic Society, Ceramic Tech Today

2012 January Dhruv receives the McNair Scholarship

2011 November ACS Nano paper is featured as a Top Story by the Extracellular Matrix News, November 17, 2011

2011 October Dr. Jun is promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

2011 August Dr. Jun is named as a Coulter Fellow by the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation

2011 August Jessica wins the 2011 BME Outstanding Honors Thesis award

2011 May Adi wins the 1st Place ($800 Travel Award) in the Center for Cardiovascular Biology Research Retreat

2011 April Sergey wins the Outstanding Physics Graduate

2011 April Sergey wins the 2nd Place in the UAB Undergraduate EXPO

2011 April Chidinma wins the 1st Place, the Rurh and William Silen, M,D. Award, in the New England Science Symposium sponsored by the Harvard Medical School

2011 April Chidinma is selected to the UAB PREP Scholars program which will cover her stipend and benefits.

2011 January UAB’s new 3-D nanoscaffolding could revolutionize human tissue engineering Media release: UAB NEWS, WVTM-TV, etc

2010 December Endomimetics, LLC’s launch is highlighted in The Birmingham News Media release: The Birmingham News

2010 July Chidinma wins the 1st Place in Mathematics Engineering and Technology of the UAB Summer Research Expo

2010 July Dr. Jun receives the Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation

2010 May Adi receives American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship

2010 April Joel Anderson receives the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31)

2010 April Finalist, the 2010 Alabama Launchpad Governor’s Business Plan Competition Endomimetics LLC (Drs. Brott, Jun, Barr, Schwiebert)

2010 April Ajay et al. Biofabrication paper has been selected to the journal’s Highlights collection of 2009

2010 April Dr. Jun receives the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentorship

2010 April Dongjin Daniel Lim receives the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Meeting  Travel Award from The UAB Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC)

2010 March Joel Anderson wins 1st place, Life Sciences Session, Graduate Student Research Days

2010 March Adi Andukuri wins 2nd place, Science and Engineering Session,Graduate Student Research Days

2010 February Joel Anderson wins 3rd place, Basic Sciences Division (Pre-doctoral), The Fifth Annual School of Dentistry Scholars’ Symposium

2009 July Adam Blakeney has been awarded the Alabama Society for Professional Engineers (ASPE)’s 2009 Student Engineer of the Year.

2009 February Adam Blakeney is selected as the UAB Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Student of the Year. Adam is also selected as the UAB School of Engineering Undergraduate Student of the Year.

2009 February Joel Anderson is selected as the UAB Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student of the Year.

2009 February Dr. Jun receives the Innovation Award from the American Diabetes Association. Special thanks to Drs. Juan Contreras and John Corbett.

2008 November Joel is awarded to a student travel grant to the TERMIS-NA 2008 in San Diego, CA.

2008 November Meenakshi’s work, Natural Endothelium Mimicking Self-assembled Nanomatrix for Drug-eluting Stent Applications, is selected to the news conference on “Hi-Tech for the Heart” at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2008. Media Releases; Nanotechnology-Now, TV, etc..

2008 September Joel receives the BERM Center Synthasome Student Travel Awards. This award covers travel expenses to present Joel’s research at the 2008 TERMIS NA meeting in San Diego, CA.

2008 April Adinarayana wins the Caroline P. Ireland Research Scholarship.

2008 March Joel wins the 2nd place at the Annual Meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science.

2008 March Meenakshi wins the 2nd place at the Graduate Research Days Competition.

2007 October Joel has been selected as a recipient of NIH T-32 predoctoral training fellowship (Nanotechnology in Biosensors and Bioengineering). This renewable fellowship is very prestigious and competitive award and funded from National Institutes of Health (NIH)- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).

2007August Meenakshi wins a prestigious award, the Caroline P. Ireland Research Scholarship.

2007 June Dr. Jun receives The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation 2007 Early Career Award.