January 2023
  • Hao has won a CMBE Postdoctoral Travel Award. Huge Congratulations, Dr. Zhou!
  • Saci has received a USC Provost Undergraduate Research Award for Spring, 2023. Congratulations!

July 2022
  • Hao has successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Zhou!

June 2022
  • Jia has successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Huge Congratulations, Dr. Hao!

May 2022
  • Winfield has won an AMI Award for Academic Excellence in Biomedical Engineering, which is awarded to a Biomedical Engineering junior in recognition of their outstanding academic achievements. Congratulations, Winfield!
  • Prof. Shen has been elected to the Council of BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) SIG.
  • Congratulations to all the PhDs (Yuta, Hydari, Jia and Hao)!

April 2022
  • Chelsea Mariano, a former undergraduate member of the Shen lab who joined the PhD program at Vanderbilt University in 2021, has just received an NSF GRFP fellowship. Congratulations, Chelsea!
  • Prof. Shen has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure at USC.
  • Lucia has received a USC Provost Undergraduate Research Award for Summer, 2022. Congratulations!

March 2022
  • Hydari has successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Huge Congratulations, Dr. Begum!

January 2022
  • Winfield has received a USC Provost Undergraduate Research Award for Spring, 2022. Congratulations!

October 2021
  • Hydari's paper, "E-Cadherin Regulates Mitochondrial Membrane Potential in Cancer Cells", has been accepted at Cancers. Congratulations!

September 2021
  • Lucia and Winfield have both received USC Provost Undergraduate Research Awards for Fall, 2021. Congratulations!

July 2021
  • Jia's paper, "Membrane-bound SCF and VCAM-1 Synergistically Regulate the Morphology of Hematopoietic Stem Cells", has been accepted at Journal of Cell Biology. Congratulations!
  • Yuwei Ren joined the Shen Lab. Welcome!

April 2021
  • Chelsea has been accepted to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Systems Biology and Physical Oncology Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Congratulations!
  • Winfield has just won a USC Provost Undergraduate Research Award for Summer, 2021. Congratulations!
  • Lucia Liu joined the Shen Lab. Welcome!

March 2021
  • Yuta's review paper on "Engineered In Vitro Tumor Models for Cell-Based Immunotherapy" has been accepted at Acta Biomaterialia.

January 2021
  • Jia has passed her PhD qualifying exam. Congratulations!
  • Winfield has received a USC Provost Undergraduate Research Award for Spring, 2021. Congratulations!

November 2020
  • Our US patent titled "Microdevice platform recapitulating hypoxic tissue microenvironments" has been approved (US patent # 10,829,730).

September 2020
  • Chelsea and Irene have both received the USC Provost Undergraduate Research Award for Fall, 2020. Congratulations!

May 2020
  • Yuta has successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Huge Congratulations, Dr. Ando!
  • Hydari has won a Best Research Assistant Award from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Congratulations!

March 2020

February 2020
  • Hao has passed his PhD qualifying exam. Congratulations!

January 2020
  • Hao's paper on distinguishing and tracking hematopoietic stem cells through their metabolism has been accepted by iScience. Congratulations!
  • Chelsea and Irene have both received the USC Provost Undergraduate Research Award for Spring, 2020. Congratulations!

November 2019
  • Prof. Shen received a Rising Star Award from the BMES Cell and Molecular Bioengineering conference (the conference will take place in January 2020 in Puerto Rico).

October 2019
  • Hao and Jia delivered podium presentations at the 2019 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) meeting. Yuta, Hydari, Irene, Chelsea, Kristen, and Daniel presented their work in the poster sessions. Great work, everyone!

September 2019
  • Irene has received a USC Provost Undergraduate Research Award for Fall, 2019. Congratulations!
  • Prof. Shen received an R01 grant from the Provocative Questions Initiative at the National Cancer Institute.

August 2019
  • Hydari's first paper on spatial regulation of mitochondrial membrane potential has been published in Scientific Reports. Congratulations!

May 2019
  • Daniel has graduated with B.S. from the BME program. He also won the Discovery Scholars distinction with his work in the Shen lab. Congratulations!

April 2019
  • Yuta has won a Best Research Assistant Award from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Congratulations!
  • Daniel has received an "Honorable Mention" in the USC Undergraduate Symposium with his work in the Shen lab. Congratulations!
  • Daniel has won a Grodins Award from the Department of Biomedical Engineering for his academic excellence. Congratulations!

February 2019
  • Yuta's paper on CAR T cell therapy in hypoxic tumor model has been selected as the Front Cover article by Advanced Healthcare Materials. Congratulations!

January 2019
  • Yuta's paper on CAR T cell therapy in hypoxic tumor model has been accepted by Advanced Healthcare Materials. Congratulations!
  • Daniel and Chelsea have both received the USC Provost Undergraduate Research Award for Spring, 2019. Congratulations!

November 2018
  • On November 16th, we successfully hosted a field trip with the high school students and teachers from the STEM Academy of Boyle Heights. Thank you, Yuta, Hydari, Jia and Hao!​ Here is the news article.
  • Yuta and Hydari hosted a lab tour with the parents and prospective students for Viterbi EXPO. Thank you!

November 2018
  • Hydari has won the 1st place of the Poster Prize in the UCLA Mitochondria Symposium. Congratulations!

September 2018
  • Daniel has received a USC Provost Undergraduate Research Award for Fall, 2018. Congratulations!
  • Hydari has received a WiSE Travel Award for attending the upcoming Annual BMES Meeting. Congratulations!

April 2018
  • Yuta's paper on hypoxia microdevice has been selected as "Top 100 Scientific Reports Oncology Papers in 2017". This is a remarkable achievement and showcases the quality of our work. Congratulations! (article; Top 100 in Oncology - we are at 39th!)
  • Jia has received Best Poster Award in Cell and Tissue Engineering at the 22nd Annual Grodin's Research Symposium. Congratulations!

January 2018
  • Daniel has received a USC Provost Undergraduate Research Award for Spring, 2018. Congratulations!

October 2017
  • Prof. Shen attended STOP CANCER's 8th Annual Run/Walk event to support the fund raising effort for cancer research. (STOP CANCER RUN/WALK)
  • Yuta's paper on hypoxia microdevice has been accepted by Scientific Reports. Congratulations!

July 2017
  • Prof. Shen has received a Trailblazer Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the research on hematopoietic stem cells in collaboration with Dr. Rong Lu (co-investigator) at the Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. (USC Viterbi Newsletter)
  • Prof. Shen has received a research grant from the Phi Beta Psi Charity Trust Fund of Phi Beta Psi Sorority for the research on tumor-stromal interactions in breast cancer. (Phi Beta Psi National Projects)

May 2017
  • Prof. Shen has received a Rose Hills Foundation Research Fellowship from the Rose Hills Foundation and the USC Provost's Office.
  • Linda has graduated with her B.S. from the BME program. She also won the Discovery Scholars distinction with her work in the Shen lab. Congratulations!

April 2017
  • Yuta has received Best Poster Award in Cell and Tissue Engineering at the 21st Annual Grodin's Research Symposium. Congratulations!
  • Sang-sin, Sneha, and Kristen have received the USC Provost Undergraduate Research Award for Summer 2017. Congratulations!

January 2017
  • Sang-sin and Daniel have both received the USC Provost Undergraduate Research Award for Spring 2017. Congratulations!
  • Prof. Shen attended the STOP CANCER 25th Annual Educational Forum and Research Award Dinner at UCLA Luskin Conference Center to receive the Marni Levine Memorial Research Career Development Award. (photo album; USC Viterbi newsletter)

December 2016
  • Daniel's paper on micromilling has been published on the journal Technology. Congratulations! This is also the first peer reviewed research paper from the Shen lab. (PubMed article; press release)

November 2016
  • Prof. Shen has received the Marni Levine Memorial Research Career Development Award from STOP CANCER (link).

September 2016
  • Linda and Daniel have both received the USC Provost Undergraduate Research Award for Fall 2016. Congratulations!

June  2016
  • Profs. Keyue Shen and Rong Lu were featured in USC Stem Cell news for receiving the Eli and Edythe Broad Innovation Award in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (link).

April  2016
  • Sneha has received the USC Provost Undergraduate Research Award for Summer 2016. Congratulations!
  • Yuta has received the 1st Price of the Stevens Innovation Award in the 20th Annual Grodins Graduate Research Symposium. Congratulations!​

March 2016
  • On March 30th, we hosted a field trip with Manual Arts High students. We received great comments from the teachers and the students. Thank you, Yuta, Gabe, and Daniel!​

February 2016
  • Prof. Shen is now a USC Stem Cell Principle Investigator (link).

November 2015
  • Profs. Keyue Shen and Rong Lu have received the inaugural Eli and Edythe Broad Innovation Award from USC Stem Cell Institute.

October 2015

May 2015
  • Brian has received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fund from Dornsife College. Congratulations!