Yee Lab’s Multidisciplinary Design Program (MDP) Team mentored by Rachel presented their research at the UCI 2017 MDP Symposium. Great job, Sam, Van, and Mossab (left to right)!

Yee Lab’s Multidisciplinary Design Program (MDP) Team presented their research at the UCI Gavin Herbert Eye Institute’s 2017 Bench-to-Bedside Symposium. Great job, Sam, Van, Sara, and Mossab (left to right)!

Congratulations to Mary, now officially Dr. Dickson, for completing her PhD! Best wishes on your career at Intel!

Congratulations Mary, Justin, Elena, Noel, and Yash for their paper published in Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B on “Conformal reversal imprint lithography for polymer nanostructuring over large curved geometries”

Congratulations Jimmy & Sara for receiving Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Fellowships! Keep up the good work!

Congratulations Elena and Emma for their paper published in Integrative Biology on “Correlation of focal adhesion assembly and disassembly with cell migration on nano topography”

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!