New biomaterial that mimics human tissue and fights bacteria developed by our superstar PhD candidate Ashley Nguyen published on Nature Communications! Huge congratulations, Ash!!
It all started when Ash wanted to fill her time during COVID lockdown. While some people were busy recording videos of themselves working out, cooking or baking, Ash explored her scientific curiosity and started looking into a novel peptide system through computational modelling. The result is this wonderful peptide hydrogel biomaterial with so many different applications from growing organoids, antibacterial and so on! Read the rest here!! https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/mimics-human-tissue-fights-bacteria-new-biomaterial-hits-sweet-spot
When Science meets Art: Congratulations Chantal on winning second place with her stunning images at "The Illuminators: Scope for Change" microscopy exhibition!!
Chantal - Growing melanoma cells on different patterns in the lab allows us to mimic mechanical stress that cells experience in tissues to study how geometric confinement and curvature orchestrate cell response, behaviour and functions. This is exemplified by the green fluorescence signal that is shown to be more prominent on the perimeter of concave patterns. Check it out here! https://www.edi.unsw.edu.au/get-involved/diversity-fest/the-illuminators-2023#Chantal%20Kopecky
Congratulations Shariful on publishing this awesome work on modular magnetic nanofibers for tissue engineering!
Mechanical actuation of the nanofibrous hydrogels can be controlled and reversed using applied magnetic forces. It's a cool demonstration of controlling osteogenesis, adipogenesis or myogenesis using non-invasive magnetic actuation! Read it here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsami.3c07021
CongraCongratulations to Dr. Pallavi Srivastava on the new position!
Congratulations to the now former lab member Dr. Pallavi Srivastava on landing a position as a iPSC scientist at the Victor Chang institiue for cardiac research! It has been great seeing you grow and graduate from our lab over the last 3 years, and we wish you the best of luck in your future endevors.
Congratulations Jun on the faculty position at POSTECH!
Congratulations to lab alumn Junmin Lee on accepting a faculty position in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at POSTECH University in Korea. Jun will be the director of the "Smart Biomaterials Design Lab"! We wish you all the best, and look forward to collaborating with your group.
Our COBICs paper has press all across the Globe!
Congratulations to Sara and team for publication of our COBICS technology in Advanced Functional Materials. The paper has received terrific press coverage all over the world, leading to an Altmetric score of 227 in under a month! See video to learn more!
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/scientists-use-novel-ink-3d-print-%E2%80%98bone%E2%80%99-living-cells-0
Check out Kris doing a radio interview
4/12/20 Interested in using stem cells to grow human organs? Listen in as Kris weighs in on the science; featured on community radio 2SER 107.3 FM
https://2ser.com/organ-creation/
Congratulations Tom on the MBSANZ student award!
Congratualtions Tom on sharing the Dennis Lowther Student for the year 2020. Keep up the good work Tom!
Congratulations Kris on his big R01 NIH grant!!
"Kris Kilian from UNSW Sydney’s School of Materials Science and Engineering and the School of Chemistry has won a prestigious $1.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US.""
"The long-term goal of the research is to establish simple methods, where tissue specimens from a skin biopsy or surgical resection can be grown in a dish at a hospital, with multiple drugs tested to find the right combination for each patient. A/Prof. Kilian has a research partnership with Professor John Copland at the Mayo Clinic in the US to explore translation of these models to drug development"
"The long-term goal of the research is to establish simple methods, where tissue specimens from a skin biopsy or surgical resection can be grown in a dish at a hospital, with multiple drugs tested to find the right combination for each patient. A/Prof. Kilian has a research partnership with Professor John Copland at the Mayo Clinic in the US to explore translation of these models to drug development"
Congratulations to Sara, Kang, Pallavi and Kris for acceptance of their review paper!
Nice work Sara, Kang, Pallavi and Kris! Their new reivew paper, "Targeting cell plasticity for regeneration: from in vitro to in vivo reprogramming" in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, will be featured in an upcoming special issue "Old Drugs, New Tricks” – Redefining Therapeutic Strategies for Tissue Regeneration.
Congratulations to Junmin lee on Publishing your paper in Communications biology!
Congratulations to Jun after finally getting his follow up to his nature materials paper published! It has been a long arduous battle, and we are happy to finally congratulate you on getting the story published in Communications Biology!
Welcome to the group Ash, and Congratulations on your first paper!
We would like to welcome back Ash Nguyen to the group as a PhD student after she finished her Honors with us in 2019. And a hearty congratualtions for also having her reivew paper published in ACS Chemical Biology within her first week of starting. Way to go!
Congratulations to Dr. Yi Pei on the research fellow position!!
Congratulations to Dr. Yi Pei who will be starting a research fellow position focusing on electrochemical biosensors under the supervision of Prof. Nico Voelcker at Monash University. We are delighted to keep Yi downunder and are excited to follow her research accomplishments in her new role!
Congratulations to Pallavi on Publishing her Paper!
A big Congratulations to our PhD student Pallavi on getting her review published in the Frontiers on Bioengineering and Biotechnology. Its a great snipit into the use of Iduced pluripotent stem cells to model how our embryos develope and mature. Way to go!
Congratulations to Phuong on Successfully defending!
It has been a long few years, but after publishing some great work on single cell anaylsis using quantum dotsfinally, Phuong made it through and had a fantastic defence! We look forwarding to seeing her do well as she continues her career as a post doc in the Gene Yeo lab out at UCSD
Good work Tom on winning the best rapid presentaion award at the 2019 MSBANZ Cofnerence!
Tom gave an excellent short talk on our groups recent developments on creating a new platform for omnidirectionally printing cells and vasculature for new models. Way to go Tom!
Great work Sarith on getting published in Materials Horizons!
We want to congradulate Sarith on getting his work published in Materials Horizons! For years, people have been focusing on using liposomes from drug delviery, however little attention has been paid to how to lipids interact with the body and extracellular matrix once they get in. Sarith found, with his model lipsomes, that these vesicles undergo a change from a sigle walled vessel to these multiwalled onion like structures. These structural changes are cruical to investigate so we can see how our drug delviery systems may be impacted and can be better engineered for better therapuetic outcomes.
A Massive congratulations for Dr. Yi Pei on successfully Defednding her PhD!!
After a little over 5 years, and having moved labs twice, once to another country, Yi finally earns her title as Dr. Her work on pushing the biosensoring world into the area of cell integration will make a stand for years to come. We look forward to seeing Yi back at the lab to visit at the end of July and wish her the best of luck with her future career!
Check out our press piece from the UNSW materials annual report
Here's a press piece on our lab that was published in the UUNSw 2019 materials annual report. Always great to see research higlighed and get the word out there on what we do!
Congratulations Sarith on winning the best presentaiton award at the 10th International Nanomedicine Conference!
Here's a photo of Sarith with Professor Maria Kavallaris receiving his award for the best presentaion at 10th International Nanomedicine Conference. He gave a wonderful talk on how the ECM in our bodies may actually be restrucutring the drug loaded liposomes that the community has been using for years, suggesting that we may need to rethink how we design some of our nanocarriers.
Sarith giving his excellent talk given at the 10th International Nanomedicine Conference
Here's a photo of Sarith during his talk on how ossmotic pressure hedryates liposomes in the bodies extracellular matrix that he gave at the 10th International Nanomedicine Conference here in Syndey.
Stephanie with her fantastic talk given at the ICMAT2019 conference
Here's Stephanie during her talk on Controlled geometry induce stem-like cell expression in sarcoma that she gave at the ICMAT2019 conference out in Singapore. Good work, keep it up!
Lets give a hand to Yi with her excellent talk given at the 10th International Nanomedicine Conference
Here's a photo of Yi with her chameleon's during her talk on inverse opal structures for biosensing that she gave at the 10th International Nanomedicine Conference here in Syndey.
Congratulations Pallavi on passing your confirmation talk!
Here's a photo of Pallavi during her practice confimration talk on her thesis. Good work, keep it up!
Congratulations Bhakthi on passing your confirmation talk!
Here's a photo of Bhakthi during her confimration talk on her thesis. Good work!
Check out Jake's poster from the NIH CVBE Symposium!
Here's a photo of Jake with his poster from the NIH PTCT Cardiovascular bioenigneering symposium. Good work dude!
Check out Sara's poster from the NIH CVBE Symposium!
Here's a picture of Sara with his poster from the NIH PTCT Cardiovascular bioenigneering symposium. Also, a special shoutout to sara for winning the twitter contest prize at the conference. You can check the photo out at the link below.
Link to her twitter
Link to her twitter
Congradulations to Phuong on the Nature Communcations paper!
We are giving a big shoutout to our Student Phuong Le who just got her work published in Nature Communications. She is co-advised by both Kris and Andrew Smith back at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Phuong's work here is the first paper to allow single cell counting of growth factors and other soluble factors in cells, opening up many new avenues in cell signaling research. check out her aperp and be sure to share it with Others!
Link to paper
Link to paper
Check out our Poster!
Be sure to come check out Jake and Sara's poster presentation at the NIH PTCT Cardiovascular bioeningeering symposium this March 1st and 2nd! The conference will be held at Parkroyal Parramatta right here in Syndey.
Check out our New cool Bioprinter!
From December 17th-19th, Tom and Stephanie visted Adam Feinberg's lab out at Carnegie Mellon University for a 3D bioprinting workshop. During those three days, they learned about the new FRESH 3D printing technique pioneered by Professor Feinbergs lab, and they also learned how to modify a Lulzbot mini 2 3D pinter to use that technique. That printer has now found its way back to our lab here in Sydney, so be on the lookout for new FRESH printing research to come from us soon!
Congratulations Yanfen!
Congratulations to Yanfen for the acceptance of her manuscript ‘Quantitative phase imaging reveals matrix stiffness-dependent growth and migration of cancer cells’ in the journal Scientific Reports! The Manuscrpit is now in press.
Congratulations Sara!
Congratulations to Sara Romanazzo on being accepted into the Women in Maths & Science Champions Program at UNSW
Congratulations Jake!
Congratulations to Jake ireland on his research student award for the UNSW ARC association!
Congratulations Yi!
Congratulations to Yi Pei for the acceptance of her manuscript ‘Vertical integration of cell-laden hydrogels with bioinspired photonic crystal membranes’ in the journal Advanced Materials Interfaces
Kris has been awarded the PLuS Alliance Future Fellowship!
Kris has been awarded a 2019-2020 PLuS Alliance fellowship in Research to help coordinate international activities in regenerative biomaterials. Congratulations Kris!
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UNSW researchers secure $13.5m for 10 projects in latest ARC funding
UNSW Sydney researchers have received almost $13.5m from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for 10 projects in key research areas including the development of a revolutionary technology for storing renewable energy without the need for batteries, a study of the unique properties of liquid metals, and nine fellowships for the University’s brightest mid-career researchers.
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UNSW researchers secure $13.5m for 10 projects in latest ARC funding
Regenerative medicine company Cynata Therapeutics (ASX: CYP) has partnered up with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in a bid to develop a stem cell treatment for coronary artery disease (CAD) led by Dr Kristopher Kilian, Scientia Fellow at the UNSW School of Chemistry and School of Materials Science and Engineering.
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Welcome to the group!
Welcome to our new lab members Tom, Jake, Stephanie, Sara, Bhakthi, Riddhesh, Max, and Vipul!
Congratulations to Dr. Yanfen Li on passing her defense!
Congradulations to Dr. Yanfen Li on passing her defense! She has now moved to the bioengineering Department at UMass Lowell as an Assistant Teaching Professor
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The Kilian Lab is moving!
The Kilian Lab is moving! We are in the process of starting a new enterprise at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia across the School of Chemistry and the School of Materials Science and Engineering. As always we hope to attract the best and brightest trainees; to get more information or to express your interest please contact Prof. Kilian
Congradulations Jun on the Science Advances Paper!
Jun's paper "Melanoma topology reveals a stem-like phenotype that promotes angiogenesis" has been published by Science Advances accompanied by a Illinois News Bureau piece by Liz Touchstone. Read it here!
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Kris has been selected as the CMBE Young Innovator
Prof. Kilian has been selected as a 2017 Cell and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Young Innovator. Congratulations Kris!
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Congradulations to Yanfen Li on her Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering paper!
Yanfen's paper "Matrix mechanics influence fibroblast-myofibroblast transition by directing the localization of histone deacetylase 4" has been accepted by Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Congratulations Yanfen!
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Congradulations to Dr. Doug Zhang on his Advance Healthcare Materials Paper!
Doug's paper "Synthetic biomaterials to rival nature's complexity - a path forward with combinatorics, high-throughput discovery, and high-content analysis" has been accepted by Advanced Healthcare Materials. Congratulations Doug!
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Doug's recent paper was highlighted in Illinois News, Eurekalert!, and ScienceDaily
Doug's Recent Paper in ACS Central Science was Highlighted in Illinois News, EurekAlert!, and ScienceDaily
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Congradulations Doug on the ACS Central Science Paper!
Doug's paper "Combinatorial discovery of defined substrates that promote a stem cell state in malignant melanoma" has been accepted by ACS Central Science. Congratulations Doug!
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Jun has successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Lee!
Congradulations to Dr. Junmin Lee on passing his defense! He is now a Postdocotral Researcher at UCLA under Ali Khademhosseini.
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