News Archives

02/26/2011

Dr. Yang received "2011 Outstanding Young Faculty Member Award" from College of Engineering, UTA.

01/27/2011

Dr. Yang joins editioral board of "Journal of Microbial and Biochemical Technology".

01/22/2011

Congratulation to Richard Tran on his winning "Potwin Outstanding Bioengineering Student" award.

11/12/2010

Congratulation to Richard Tran on his winning "University Scholar" award. The University created this award to formally recognize the top one percent of the student body who exemplify academic excellence.

10/29/2010

Dr. Yang was selected to receive High Impact/High Risk Research Award from Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). Dr Kytai Nguyen is the Co-PI of this award. This is the first time that UTA researchers receive CPRIT grant. Congratulation!

09/13/2010

Upcoming seminars: Dr. Yang will give seminars at Southwest Research Institute (10/12/10), Northwestern University Biomedical Engineering Department (10/21/2010), and Hong Kong BME2010 conference (11/03/10, Keynote Speaker).

09/09/2010

Yang lab research reported by UTArlington Magazine.

08/09/2010

Congratulations to Dipen Gyawali. His paper on developing injectable biomaterials for cell delivery was accepted by a leading journal "Biomaterials".

08/06/2010

Congratulations to collaborator Dr Liping Tang, blood vessel tissue engineering project received funding supports from American Heart Association. News Release!

Congratulations to collaborator Dr Kytai Nguyen, wound dressing project received funding supports from Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program.

08/06/2010

Congratulations to Parvathi Nair and Shengyuan Zhou for successfully defending their MS thesis.

07/24/2010

Yang lab high school outreach on the news.
FW Star-Telegram report
The Star-Telegram story was the lead feature for Higher Education in the American Society for Engineering Education’s “First Bell” e-newsletter (July 22nd)

07/20/2010

Congratulations to Elsa Cigainero (Junior in Biology) and Ibrahim Qattan (Freshman in Biology) for receiving Summer Research Internship from College of Engineering

04/27/2010

Dr Yang received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. Congratulations! News Release.

03/30/2010

Congratulation to Jagannath Dey for his paper on CUPE vascular scaffold accepted by Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A.

03/08/2010

Congratulation to Richard Tran, his article on dual- crosslinking elastomer was accepted by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Journal "Soft Matter".

02/22/2010 Congratulation to Richard Tran, his article titled "Scaffold Sheet Design Strategy for Soft Tissue Engineering" was accepted by "Materials".
10/22/2009 Congratulation to Dipen Gyawali and Richard Tran Their paper titled "Citric acid derived photocrosslinked biodegradable elastomers" was accepted by "Journal of Biomaterials Science: Polymer edition".
9/15/2009 "Creating a healthy glow". Research news on "Biophotonics" Magazine.
8/17/2009 PNAS paper featured on American Chemical Society (ACS) "Noteworthy Chemistry".
7/29/2009 Dr Yang receives funding from NIH/NIBIB for his biomaterial research.
6/30/2009 Research on The Shorthorn News
6/25/2009 Research on Biodegradable fluorescent polymers was highlighted in "In this Issue" of PNAS
6/9/2009 and 6/16/2009 Dr Yang gave a presentation and lab tours to Summer Bridge Camp and Access Camp high school students (9th -12th graders). See Pictures.
6/9/2009 Press Release on PNAS paper by UTA College of Engineering.
News release by PNAS (English Version, Chinese Version at Eurek Alert)
4/30/2009 Congratulation! Our manuscript regarding the development of biodegradable photoluminescent polymers was just accepted by prestigious "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America (PNAS)". Congratulation to all contributors.
1/7/2009 Dr Yang gave a talk at 27th Scientific Conference of SPRBM held at Oahu, Hawaii. The title of the talk was "Novel aliphatic biodegradable photoluminescent polymers".
11/14/2008 Dr Yang gave a talk at Johns Hopkins University (MSE). The title of the talk was "Novel biodegradable polymers for tissue engineering and bioimaging".
10/22/2008  - Dr Yang gave a talk at UTSW Cancer Imaging Program. The title of the talk was "Development of functional biodegradable biomaterials for tissue engineering, drug delivery and bioimaging -- our recent progress".
8/17/2008 Congratulation! The manuscript submitted to "Biomaterials" was accepted. The title of the paper is "Development of biodegradable crosslinked urethane-doped polyester elastomers". Congratulation to Jagannath Dey.
7/24/2008 Dr. Yang attended 16th International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology held at Pittsburgh. The title of his talk is "Novel biodegradable elastomers and scaffold-sheet tissue engineering".
04/12/2007 Congratulation to Paul Thevenot and Dr Liping Tang for publishing at Tissue Engineering Part A.
6/30/2008  - Congratulations! Dr Yang was awarded a joint venture grant by UTSW-UTA Collaborative Research Program. This work is in collaboration with Drs Shiakolas(UTA), Brilakis and Banerjee (UTSW).
5/20/2008  - Dr Yang was invited as a guest speaker at Microtrac Seminar held at Fort Worth, TX. The title of the presentation was "Biodegradable elastomers for tissue engineering and drug delivery".
5/7/2008  - Yang group filed a provisional patent on developing a novel biodegradable injectable elastomer for soft tissue applications. Student contributors: Dipendra Gyawali and Richard Tran.
3/03/2008 Congratulation to Jagannath Dey to win the "Potvin Outstanding Student Award".
10/04/2007 Yang research group filed a patent titled "bio-polymer and scaffold-sheet method for tissue engineering". Congratulations to the student contributor: Jagannath Dey.
08/05/2007 Dr.Yang is invited to speak at CIE-DFW convention on Aug. 25.
07/31/2007  - Research on the news
05/25/2007 Congratulations! Dr Yang received grant from American Heart Association (AHA)
05/24/2007 Welcome Richard Tran, Santosh Gautam to join our research group.
05/17/2007 Dr Yang is invited as a review panel memeber for a NIH study section.
04/12/2007 Congratulations! Dr Yang was awarded a UTA Research Enhancement Program Grant.
03/20/2007  - Congratulations! Dr Yang was awarded a joint venture grant by UTSW-UTA Collaborative Research Program. This work is in collaboration with Drs Shiakolas(UTA), Brilakis and Banerjee (UTSW).
02/18/2007  - We are glad to announce the birth of our lab website
02/10/2007  - Dr Yang was invited as a NIH/NIBIB study section member
 
   

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