Science Adventures

Dr. Raghavan was conferred the AIMBE Fellowship in Washington DC!

Beckman Scholar Cassidy attended the annual Beckman Foundation symposium!

Dr. Raghavan presented her engineering education research in the graduate BME classroom at ASEE in Charlotte!

Dr. Raghavan presented the lab's work on colorectal cancer mechanobiology with collaborator Dr. Amber Stratman at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany!

Shreya and Lucy both presented their work in the dialogue between dECM materials and cancer dormancy at GRC STEEM in Les Diabelerets, Switzerland!

Raghavan lab undergrads presented their research in cancer mechanobiology and biomaterial microenvironments at the annual CPRIT symposium!

Lucy and Karla both presented their work in SFB/Atlanta on using dECM and ECM-based materials to study cancer dormancy, and engineering functional uterine tissues!

Raghavan lab trainees attended the Texas Biomaterials Day at Rice University! Abbie won the best rapid fire presentation on her work in studying endometrial mechanobiology in the uterus!

Shreya, Lucy and Astha presented their work in tissue engineering cancer and reproductive microenvironments at TERMIS 2025/Detroit! Lucy and Astha were both NIH R13 travel awardees!

Undergrad Brinlee Goggans attended BMES, and presented her work in using human-specific NAM models of metastatic colorectal cancer for therapeutic screening!

Dr. Raghavan attended and presented the group's work in tissue engineering the uterine myometrium at GRC Biomaterials, Barcelona!

We attended SFB 2025 in Chicago! Karla presented work on bioengineering the colon, and bioengineering the uterine myometrium! Sabrina presented her work on engineering dormancy using dECM materials.

Dr. Raghavan was honored to give the plenary award lecture for leading the BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows Program at SFB/Chicago!

Dr. Raghavan presented the lab's work on engineering the uterine myometrium, along with collaborator Dr. Antonina Frolova at SRI/Charlotte!

Dr. Clevenger accepted Dr. Raghavan's Rising Stars award, and gave the award talk on deciphering macrophage mechanobiology using single cell transcriptomics!

Raghavan lab alums Del Donehoo and Vibha Sheshadri joined Dr. Clevenger and Dr. Raghavan at BMES - what a delight to catch up with alums!

Dr. Raghavan presented her lab's work in cancer, women's health and gut health at the WashU BME Seminar series!