Heilshorn
Biomaterials Group
Materials
Science & Engineering Department
Stanford
University
2009
OCTOBER
- Sarah Heilshorn received an
NIH Director's New Innovator Award - the New Innovator Award is designed to
support exceptionally creative new investigators with highly innovative
research ideas that have the potential for unusually high impact
Read
the NIH press release Read the Stanford Report article
SEPTEMBER
- The Heilshorn lab is currently
accepting applications for several postdoctoral positions. View more
details in the announcement
(PDF)
- Sarah Heilshorn gave an
invited talk in the Tissue Engineering session at the IEEE Engineering
in Medicine and Biology conference in Minneapolis, MN
- Sarah Heilshorn is an invited speaker at
the International Conference on Advanced Materials (ICAM) in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
- Karin Straley will present an
oral paper at ICAM in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
AUGUST
- The lab welcomes new postdoc
Cindy Chung who comes to us from Jason Burdick's lab at University of
Pennsylvania.
- Sarah Heilshorn received a Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award from the
American Chemical Society
- Sarah Heilshorn co-chaired a
session on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering and presented a talk at
the ACS conference in Washington, D.C.
- Karin Straley had a manuscript
accepted for publication in the Journal
of Neurotrauma
- The lab ventured out to Palo
Alto Bowl for an evening of friendly competition
JULY
- Sarah Heilshorn, along with
Eric Chiao at Stanford's Stem Cell Institute, was awarded a seed grant
from the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute for Vascular Tissue Engineering with Human
Pluripotent Stem Cells and Designer Protein-based Scaffolds
- Sarah Heilshorn gave a talk at
the 2009 European Biophysics Congress in Genoa, Italy
JUNE
- Sarah Heilshorn received an
NSF CAREER Award - CAREER
awards are highly selective grants that the National Science Foundation
awards to junior faculty members who are likely to become academic
leaders of the future
- Amir
Shamloo gave a presentation at the 2009 Joint ASCE-ASME-SES
Conference on Mechanics and Materials
- Karin Straley had a manuscript
accepted for publication in Frontiers
in Neuroengineering
MAY
- Alia Schoen
was awarded a Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship
- Brian
Aguado was awarded a Bio-X Undergraduate Research Fellowship and a VPUE
Individual Student Grant
- The lab
welcomes first year Bioengineering graduate student Andreina
Parisi-Amon
APRIL
- Sarah
Heilshorn presented three talks at the Spring MRS meeting and was
featured in the MRS newsletter, Meeting Scene
- Undergraduates
Vir Choksi,
Kyle Johnson, and Ashley Seni will join the lab this summer as
participants in the Materials Science & Engineering
Department's
VPUE undergraduate summer research program
- The lab
welcomes first year graduate students Widya Mulyasasmita
(Bioengineering) and Nicole
Romano (Materials Science & Engineering)
MARCH
- Sarah
Heilshorn gave a guest
lecture at UC Berkeley as part of the Berkeley Nanosciences and
Nanoengineering Institute seminar series
FEBRUARY
- Sarah
Heilshorn was an invited speaker at the Nanobio
2009 Conference
organized by the Amrita Centre for Nanosciences in Kochi, India. Her
talk was entitled "Protein Engineered Scaffolds: Soft Biomaterials with
Nanoscale Precision"
JANUARY
DECEMBER
- Sarah
Heilshorn gave a talk
entitled "Engineered hydrogels for neural stem cell transplantation" at
the Tissue Engineering & Regnerative Medicine International
Society
(TERMIS) Conference in San Diego, CA
- Karin
Straley successfully defended her thesis in the Chemical Engineering
Department. Congrats, Karin!
NOVEMBER
- Alia Schoen
and Sung Yeon
Hwang presented a poster at SLAC for the Stanford Institute for
Materials & Energy Science (SIMES) DoE program review
- Going away
party at Prof. Heilshorn's home for Tsuyoshi Kimura, who is returning
to Japan. We'll miss you Tsuyoshi!
- Cheryl Wong
Po Foo was awarded
a 2008 UK-US Stem Cell Collaboration Development Award. She will be
spending 3 weeks in Prof. Molly Stevens's lab at Imperial College,
London next term.
- Sarah
Heilshorn was invited to attend the National Academies Keck Futures
Initiative Conference on Complex Systems in Irvine, CA
OCTOBER
- Alia
Majeed was married in her hometown near Chicago. Congrats Mrs. Schoen!
SEPTEMBER
- Sarah
Heilshorn was an
invited speaker at the German Ophthalmological Society conference in
Berlin. Her
talk was entitled "Designing a new generation of tissue engineering
scaffolds."
- The
Heilshorn Group was
awarded a Stanford Bio-X
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Grant
together with Prof. Chris Zarins (Medical School) and Prof. Ellen Kuhl
(Mechanical Engineering). The goal of the project is to develop new
therapies for heart attack patients using stem cell transplantation
within biomaterials.
- The lab welcomes first year
Materials Science & Engineering graduate student Alia Majeed
- Karin
Straley had a manuscript accepted for publication in Soft Matter
JULY
- Heilshorn
Group Outing to the Mystery Spot, the Santa Cruz boardwalk, and the
Roaring Camp Railroads
MAY
- Summer
students Christina
Kratschmer, Wesley Hong, and Katie Pickrell join the lab through the
Stanford Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE) Summer
Research Program
- Amir
Shamloo had a manuscript accepted by Lab
On A Chip
- The
Heilshorn Group was awarded a grant from the Department of Energy to
study protein self-assembly into nanostructures and biotemplating
inorganic structures from these materials for use in energy applications
- Sarah
Heilshorn participated in Ask
the Expert, an
online Q&A through Stanford University's School of Engineering
APRIL
- The
Heilshorn Group was featured in the Stanford Daily
- Sarah
Heilshorn was invited to speak at UC Irvine by the Materials Science
Department
MARCH
- Sarah
Heilshorn received a Young Investigator award at a Biomedical
Nanoscience conference
at USC co-funded by the National Insitute of Biomedical Imaging and
Bioengineering (part of the NIH) and the National Science Foundation
FEBRUARY
- Sarah
Heilshorn gave a lecture on "Materials to Heal and Rebuild the Human
Body" as part of Stanford University's Brainstorms
lecture series
2007
DECEMBER
- Sarah
Heilshorn was invited to speak at the University of Michigan by the
Materials Science Department
- Sarah
Heilshorn was invited to give a talk by the MIT Program in Polymer
Science and Technology
OCTOBER
- Congratulations
to Amir Shamloo for successfully passing his Ph.D. oral qualifying
exams in the Mechanical Engineering Department!
SEPTEMBER
- A
multi-disciplinary team that includes the Heilshorn laboratory along
with four other Stanford research groups has been awarded a new type of
research grant through the National Science Foundation Emerging
Frontiers in Research and Innovation program. Read
the press release here.
JULY
- Karin
Straley was awarded a Bio-X travel Grant to support her trip to the
American Chemical Society conference
- Larry Wang
was awarded a Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship to support his Ph.D.
research
MAY
- Lucas
Hughes and Andrew McIntyre have been selected by the Materials Science
and Engineering Department as participants in the "Science and
Technology at the Nanoscale" summer undergraduate research program
- Karin
Straley has been selected to present her work "Synthesis and
characterization of engineered proteins with controllable properties
for use in spinal cord nerve regeneration" at the 2007 National Meeting
of the American Chemical Society
APRIL
- Prof.
Heilshorn was part of two selected grant proposals awarded by the
National Acadamies Keck Futures Initiative to fund research that will
enable the design of "smart prosthetics." Read
the news release.
MARCH
2006
NOVEMBER
- Sarah
Heilshorn was invited to
attend the National Acadamies Keck Futures Initiative Conference on
Smart Prosthetics in Irvine, CA