Nya kroppsdelar ska printas med 3D-skrivare
2021-11-12
Se inslag från SVT Nyheter Uppsala där Cecilia Persson berättar om pågående forskning kring benimplantat gjorda av magnesium som kroppen själv ska kunna bryta ner över tid och ersätta med kroppsegen benvävnad.
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Congratulations Prof. Cecilia Persson and Assist. Prof. Morteza Aramesh!
2023-10-04
We are very happy for Prof. Cecilia Persson and Assist. Prof. Morteza Aramesh who have acquired VINNOVA Emerging Technology Solutions grants! Two exciting projects are now going to be performed : Biodegradable cages for the degenerated disc - will be investigated by Prof. Cecilia Persson in cooperation with Salim Ghandour, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Uppsala University, Assoc. Prof. Rob Hewson, Imperial College London, UK and Dr. Malin Nilsson, Inossia ,Sweden. ... -
Welcome to our new Project Coordinator, Kristel
2023-10-24
Welcome to Kristel, who joined the EMBLA group in October 2023 as Project Coordinator. ... -
Congratulations Dr Federico Cantoni on your successful defense!
2023-10-24
Federico defended his dissertation at Uppsala University with the title "Fabrication advances of microvasculature models on-chip" on Friday 20th October. ... -
Congratulations Dr Lulu Wu on your successful defense!
2023-10-24
Lulu defended her dissertation at Uppsala University with the title "Development of Nanocellulose Materials for Nano-filtration and Microfluidic Cell Culture" on Friday 6th October. ... -
Congratulations to Assist. Prof. Morteza Aramesh!
2023-09-05
This year one of our senior researchers Assist. Prof. Morteza Aramesh has aquired ERC Starting Grant 2023. Morteza is going to work on the project called NANOMICS - Scanning Nanopore Microscopy for In Situ SingleCell Protein Profiling. Congratulations with this great achievement ! ... -
Welcome Belen, Estelle and Himesh!
2023-09-05
We are happy to have new members of BMS group at the division of Biomedical Engineering ! Belén Alonso Rancurel - a PhD student in WISE-materials initiative, who is going to work under supervision of Prof. Cecilia Persson and co-supervision of Dr. Fracesco D'Elia and Assoc. Prof. Martin Fisk. Belen will perform simulation and microstructure prediction of Mg-based 3D printed alloys for biomedical applications. Himesha Abenayake is a PhD student under supervision of Dr. Francesco D'Elia an... -
Welcome Linglu
2023-05-09
Linglu has joined the EMBLA group as a PhD student, and will focus on design 3D-bioprinted biomaterial systems to understand the cell/tissue behavior in response to biomechanical and biochemical cues, particularly on the process of cancer invasion and the corresponding immune response. Welcome to the group, Linglu! ... -
Congratulations to Abdul for successfully defending his PhD
2023-04-26
Congratulations to Abdul for successfully defending his PhD thesis on 25th April 2023. ... -
We are recruiting!
2023-04-07
There are currently three open positions in the group, please read more via the links below and share with anyone you think might be interested. We are excited to see who the new team members will be! Postdoctoral position in biomedical engineering with a focus on acoustofluidic microsystems Deadline for applications (only accepted via online system) is May 12th. PhD student position in biomedical engineering focused on fabrication of microfluidic systems for cell studies Deadline for appl... -
Funding awarded to explore collaborations between Customized Microfluidics and Countagen
2023-03-13
We are pleased to announce that Customized Microfluidics has been awarded Verification for Collaboration (VFS in Swedish) funding from Uppsala University to explore new collaborative projects with Countagen for the benefit of society. Starting in March 2023, the six-month project will build on gene editing technology already developed by Countagen. Both partners aim to adapt this technology to a high throughput format, which addresses a current lack of ready-to-use, cost-effective and fast me... -
Welcome Lilli and Femke
2023-02-28
Welcome to Lilli and Femke, who joined the EMBLA group in January 2023 for their Master projects. ... -
EMBLA at BPS 2023 meeting!
2023-02-27
As part of the research exchange at UCSB, Maria and Astrid joined the Pruitt lab to the annual meeting of the Biophysical Society in San Diego, CA. Not the usual conference for EMBLA to attend but an opportunity to broaden our research horizons and meet other fields in which microsystems engineering can be applied. Being in a new environment also means asking basic questions both about the science and about our own research and of course meeting many new researchers that could lead to prospectiv... -
EMBLA Team Building Day...and a Curling Competition!
2023-01-26
Yesterday, the EMBLA LAB came together for a unique team building activity - curling! It was a fun and exciting way to bond as a group. Currently we are working from 4 different countries, majority of us are in Sweden but two of our team members are in the USA, one in UK and one in India. So after curling, we had a virtual meeting reflecting on our accomplishments from last year and set new goals for the year ahead. 2023 comes loaded with a lot of science and fun!! One of the thing... -
Welcome Pradipta!
2023-01-25
Welcome to Pradipta, who joined the EMBLA research group in January 2023. He will be focusing on the theoretical study of acoustic traps and the associated heating effect. ... -
Hello and Happy 2023 from California!!
2023-01-17
During the academic year '22-'23 Prof. Maria Tenje is a Visiting Professor at UC Santa Barbara at the BioE programme with Prof. Beth Pruitt. ... -
EMBLA group awarded Formas funding
2022-12-20
We are pleased to announce that the EMBLA Group has been awarded a research project funded by the Formas, a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development. ... -
Prof. Cecilia Persson awarded a project funded by WISE
2022-12-08
We are happy to announce that Prof. Cecilia Persson has recently been awarded a project called "Rare-earth-free magnesium metallic glasses enabled by additive manufacturing" funded by WISE - the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability. Congratulations ! More information about approved WISE PhD and Postdoctoral projects can be found here: https://lnkd.in/dkUv2vXM ... -
Welcome Astrid!
2022-12-05
Welcome to Astrid, who joined the EMBLA group in November 2022. Her project will be focused on microfabricated vessels for vascularisation of organoids. ... -
EMBLA group awarded research project funded by Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
2022-10-20
We are happy to announce that the EMBLA Group has been awarded a research project funded by Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse. ... -
Congratulations to Sarah-Sophia for successfully defending her PhD!
2022-10-02
Congratulations to Sarah-Sophia for successfully defending her PhD thesis on 30th September 2022. We were pleased to welcome her committee to Uppsala for the event, including Marlon Schneider as opponent (University of Leipzig), and committee members Anna Fahlgren (Linköping), Margarita Trobos (Gothenburg) and Thomas Winkler (Technical University of Braunschweig). Wishing you all the best for the future, Sarah-Sophia, you'll be missed! Want to know more about the topic? View the th... -
Sarah-Sophia nails her thesis!
2022-09-20
Congratulations to Sarah-Sophia Carter for nailing her thesis on 16th September! Join us for her defense titled "Exploring microfluidics as a tool to study cell-biomaterial interactions" on 30th September starting at 9.15 in Sonja Lyttkens Hall (101121), Ångström Laboratory -Uppsala University. Gemma Mestres is her supervisor. Anna Diez Escudero and Maria Tenje are her co-supervisos. The opponent is Professor Marlon Schneider from Leipzig University. It will also be possible to join via zo... -
Welcome Isabel!
2022-08-16
Welcome to Isabel, who joined the EMBLA group in August 2022 as a part-time Project Coordinator. ... -
More congratulations due...well done to Ana Maria for successfully defending her PhD!
2022-08-16
Congratulations to Ana Maria for successfully defending her PhD thesis on 10th June 2022. We were pleased to welcome her committee to Uppsala for the event, including Jörg Kütter as opponent (Copenhagen University), and committee members Julie Gold (Chalmers), Martin Dufva (DTU) and Marie Jeansson (UU). Wishing you all the best for the future, Ana Maria! Want to know more about the topic? View the thesis in the university's publication database DiVA: https://materialvetenskap.uu.se/edu... -
Division Summer Day
2022-06-23
On June 9th the divison spent a day together at Wik's castle! ... -
Huge congratulations to Zhenhua for successfully defending his PhD!
2022-06-01
Congratulations to Zhenhua for successfully defending his PhD thesis on 30th May 2022. We were pleased to welcome his committee to Uppsala for the event, including Nicole Pamme as opponent (Stockholm University), and committee members Martin Wiklund (KTH), Håkan Jönsson (KTH) and Kerstin Ramser (LTU). Wishing you all the best for the future, Zhenhua! Want to know more about the topic? View the thesis in the university's publication database DiVA: https://materialvetenskap.uu.se/educati... -
Customized Microfluidics awarded funding for another 2 years
2022-05-22
Customized Microfluidics, the facility providing microfabrication expertise to research groups at all Swedish universities and national SMEs, has been awarded 2M SEK by the SciLifeLab committee at Uppsala University to expand its methods development portfolio. For the coming two years, Prof. Maria Tenje will lead the facility with a focus on developing high-resolution fabrication methods of soft materials and invest in a high-resolution stereolithography 3D printer to deliver fabrication capabi... -
We are recruiting!
2022-05-22
There are currently four open positions in the group, please read more via the links below and share with anyone you think might be interested. We are excited to see who the new team members will be! ... -
Zhenhua nails his thesis
2022-05-21
Congratulations to Zhenhua for nailing his thesis on 6th May! Join us for his defense titled "Droplet Acoustofluidics for Biochemical Applications" on 30th May starting at 13.15 in Polhemsalen, or alternatively join via the live stream via https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/61701078345. Want to know more about the topic? View the thesis in the university's publication database DiVA: https://materialvetenskap.uu.se/education/phd-theses/ ... -
Welcome to our new Postdoc, Neeraj
2022-05-21
Welcome to Neeraj, who joined the EMBLA group in May 2022. ... -
EMBLA represented at the April MedTech Science and Innovation Day
2022-04-28
Maria Tenje presented at the MTSI Day on April 26th, which aims to bring together people working in the MedTech field here in Uppsala, inform about various ongoing works, and spark new collaborations between the University Hospital and researchers at Uppsala University. She spoke on “Microengineering of cell culture scaffolds for organs-on-chip applications”. ... -
Dissertation 30 May: Droplet acoustofluidics for biochemical applications
2022-04-11
Zhenhua Liu defends his thesis "Droplet acoustofluidics for biochemical applications". Read more in the Department calendar. The defence will be live streamed via this link: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/61701078345 ... -
Dissertation 10 June: Micropatterning of hyaluronic acid hydrogels for in vitro models
2022-04-11
Ana Maria Porras Hernandez defends her thesis. Read more in the Department calendar. ... -
Welcome Albin and Linnéa
2022-04-03
Welcome to Albin and Linnéa, who joined the EMBLA group in March 2022 for their Bachelor projects. ... -
ERC success for the Tenje Lab!
2022-03-10
Prof. Maria Tenje has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant (a call for which over 2,600 proposals were submitted) to advance the knowledge frontiers in microfluidics and microsystems engineering. ... -
Congratulations Maja!
2022-03-05
Congratulations to Maja for successfully defending her Msc project thesis titled "On-chip characterization of hydroxyapatite with different topography" on 3rd March. ... -
Welcome Ramon
2022-03-05
Welcome to Ramon, who joined the EMBLA group in March 2022 for an internship, and is currently studying for an MSc in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Technology Eindhoven (NL).. He will be working on optimization of acoustic trapping of encapsulated bacteria for on-chip DNA extraction. ... -
Welcome Susanna
2022-02-21
Welcome to Susanna, who joined the EMBLA group in January 2022 to work on her Master's project where she will investigate if the stiffness of HA hydrogel affects the metabolome of brain endothelial cells. ... -
Congratulations Ana Maria
2022-02-15
A big congratulations to Ana Maria, who gained her licentiate on 4th February. She presented her thesis "Chemical micropatterning of hyaluronic acid hydrogels for brain endothelial in vitro cell studies", which you can find here. ... -
First EMBLA Day of 2022
2022-02-04
On 3rd February 2022, the first EMBLA Day of the year was held at Ångström. ... -
Division Workshop on 15th December 2021
2022-01-14
On 15th December 2021 the Division's Christmas workshop took place at Mötesplats Studenternas. ... -
Gabriel Werr's midterm defense
2022-01-14
Congratulations to Gabriel for a successful midterm defence! ... -
Prof Maria Tenje inaugurated at Uppsala University
2021-12-13
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Visit and Guest Seminar 9-10 Nov by Assist. Prof. Ada-Ioana Bunea (DTU)
2021-12-13
On 9-10 November we were pleased to welcome Assist. Prof. Ada-Ioana Bunea from DTU Nanolab at the Technical University of Denmark. During her visit, Prof. Bunea gave a seminar entitled "3D microscale fabrication for biomedical and environmental applications". ... -
Maria Tenje receives prolongation grant from KAW
2021-12-10
Prof. Maria Tenje receives a five year prolongation grant to continue the research with her research group EMBLA on organs-on-chip with the aim to reduce the need of animal testing. ... -
Tenje lab receives continued support from KAW
2021-12-02
Prof. Maria Tenje has been awarded an Wallenberg Academy Fellowship prolongation grant to continue the EMBLA reserach on organs-on-chip. ... -
2021-12-02
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Nya kroppsdelar ska printas med 3D-skrivare
2021-11-12
Se inslag från SVT Nyheter Uppsala där Cecilia Persson berättar om pågående forskning kring benimplantat gjorda av magnesium som kroppen själv ska kunna bryta ner över tid och ersätta med kroppsegen benvävnad. ... -
MicroTAS 2021
2021-11-09
A good turnout from the EMBLA group at MicroTAS this year, including: Maria (presentation): "Integrating Acoustofluidics with Droplet Microfluidics" Maria (poster): "Mapping the thermoresponses of microalgae by integrating single-cell arrays on a programmable temperature stage" Hannah (presentation): "Acoustofluidic method to align polystyrene beads and cells in hydrogel droplets" Zhenhua (presentation): "Time-controlled Microbead-based Reactions in Droplets using Acoustophoresis" ... -
Praneeth Karempudi's midterm defense
2021-11-09
Congratulations to Praneeth for a successful midterm defence! ... -
Federico Cantoni's midterm defense
2021-11-09
Congratulations to Federico for a successful midterm defence! ...
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