Biophysics PhD student Jon Fritz has won a prestigious Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) predoctoral T32 fellowship! Jon is a member of the @ghadiali_lab and is advised by both Drs. Ghadiali and Englert. For his T32 project he will be using our novel ventilator-on-a-chip platform to investigate how mTOR inhibition alters cell membrane repair and injury. Congratulations Jon!

Congratulations to Jon Fritz, PhD student in the Ghadiali lab for receiving an Honorable Mention in the NSF GRP award competition this year!

Congratulations to Dr. Fei who successfully defended her PhD Dissertation on April 3rd! Thank you for all your hard work and are very proud of all you have accomplished!

Congratulations to Qinqin on publishing a new review that highlights the advancements and challenges associated with drug/gene delivery in the lung during the acute respiratory distress syndrome in Pulmonary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Well done!

Happy holidays! Remember that OSU will be closed 12/23 – 29/2021 and 12/31/2021 with very limited staffing on 12/30/2021.

Tricia Oyster, a PhD graduate research associate in Biomedical Engineering, has just won the prestigious American Heart Association Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award. This is a 2-year award that will support Tricia’s research in the fields of Pulmonary Drug Delivery and Ventilation Induced Lung Injury. For this award, she will be co-mentored by Dr. Samir Ghadiali (BME) and Dr. John Christman (Pulmonary/Critical Care) and will be using a combination of novel Lung-on-a-chip systems as well as in-vivo models of lung injury to investigate how altering microRNA expression is specific lung cell types, including alveolar macrophages, pulmonary epithelial cells and microvascular endothelial cells, can be used to prevent the mechanical injury that occurs during artificial ventilation. Please join me in congratulating Tricia on this award!

Dr. Ghadiali and co-PI Joshua Englert, Assistant Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Division were awarded a DoD grant  titled “Cell-Specific MicroRNA Regulation of Ventilation Induced Lung Injury during Hemorrhagic Shock.”

https://bme.osu.edu/news/2018/12/ghadiali-awarded-312k-dod-grant

Dr. Ghadiali was named fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. This prestigious honor is only awarded to a select group of senior professionals in the fields of medical and biological engineering. To be named a fellow, he was nominated, reviewed and elected by peers in the field for his contributions to respiratory mechanobiology and for leadership in engineering education.

https://engineering.osu.edu/news/2018/04/ghadiali-joins-medical-and-biological-engineering-elite

After long years, late nights and weekends toiling away in the lab, Chris Chang has passed his masters thesis defense. Chris is moving on to pursue his M.D. at the University Of Cincinatti College of Medicine. Congratulations Chris, and best of luck!

Congratulations to Dr. Ghadiali! He was recently named chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, to take effect Fall 2018. We look forward to the continued success of the lab with his new role.

https://engineering.osu.edu/news/2018/01/ghadiali-named-chair-biomedical-engineering