Welcome undergraduates Sara Heedy and Sydney Tea to the Lab! Sara is currently pursuing her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Sydney is currently pursuing her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at UCI!

Welcome undergraduates Jimmy Cai and Justin Tsao to the Lab! Jimmy is currently pursuing his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering and Justin is currently pursuing his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at UCI!

Congratulations Yee Lab graduate students for winning the 2016 MIT Convergence Idea Challenge, a national competition launched to encourage emerging researchers to combine various disciplines to improve human health!

The UCI team won both the 1st Place Grand Prize of $3,000 and the Community Choice award of $1,000 for their artificial bio-nanoelectronics retina idea. The winning research was also mentioned at the National Academy of Sciences alongside the release of a convergence policy report, “Convergence: The Future of Health.” The competition was sponsored and judged by a panel of eminent scientists: Nobel Laureate Phil Sharp, MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Director Tyler Jacks.

Chemical Engineering graduate student Mary Dickson and BME graduate student Elena Liang gave a press briefing for the work they presented at the 2016 Spring National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, on “Insect wings inspire antibacterial surfaces for corneal transplants, other medical devices”. The news release was picked up by several national news outlets including Optometry Today, Gizmodo, Med Device Online, and Materials World, R&D Magazine, etc.

Watch the press release on Youtube!

Congratulations Elena and Mary for winning the 2016 Best Student Poster at the 3rd Annual Bench-to-Bedside Symposium in Ophthalmology at UCI!

BME graduate student Elena Liang and Chemical Engineering graduate student Mary Dickson won the first place poster presentation award at Gavin Herbert Eye Institute Bench to Bedside Symposium held May 15th at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center. The title of their winning poster is “towards a scalable, biomimetic, antibacterial coating”.

Congratulations Mary on receiving the prestigious 2016 Federal Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship!

Congratulations Elena on being honored as a 2016 UCI Grad Slam Finalist!

Congratulations Elena for winning the 2016 MRS Silver Graduate Student Award!

Elena Liang was one of the Silver Award Recipients in a competition of graduate students in the 2016 Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society. Her award-winning oral presentation is entitled “Biomimetic Nanotopography to Control Cell Adhesion on an Artificial Cornea”.

(June 12, 2016) Congrats to Anisha, Noel, Scott, Tom, Josh and Naomi for completing their undergraduate studies at UC Irvine! Good luck on your future endeavors and come visit us whenever you can =)

(March 2016) Welcome Rachel Rosenzweig to the Yee lab! Rachel is working towards her Ph.D. in Materials Science at UC Irvine.

(March 9, 2016) Congrats to Emma Mah for passing her qualification exam for her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering.

(Dec. 2015) Welcome Daisy Wu to the lab! Daisy is working towards her Master’s degree in Materials Science.

Elena and Mary have been made Public Impact Fellow, with Elena receiving the Distinguished fellowship. Congratulations!