Yupeng Chen's Nanomedicine Lab

Good day everyone!   As you may know (or may not!) from our previous update, Maxwell Landolina (our undergraduate student) and Delaram Ghanbariamin (our Masters’ student) accepted the offer to be a full time Doctoral Student working under Dr. Yupeng Chen (Delaram will also be working with Dr. Ali Tamayol, dual advisors!!). Congratulations to them! […]

Happy Father’s Day to all the Fathers in the world!! We have great newssssss as well! Dr. Chen and his spouse have a new addition to his family, a newborn baby girl, Leah! The past week, UCONN Instagram posted a celebratory Happy Father’s Days post for UCONN DADs! How exciting is this!! Dr. Chen and […]

Hello, everyone! It has been a hot second since the last update! We started from No Mask April to Masked Up April in a month, unfortunately! But enough with the bad news! Now onto good news!! The first news we have!! NEW students joining our lab!! We are going to welcome a few students back […]

Recently two of our doctoral students participated in the poster competition organized by SAGE of the School of Engineering. Both Anne Yau and Ian Sands were able to showcase their projects in this competition.  We were super thrilled that Ian got first place amongst the BME participants!! He went ahead to the next round presenting […]

Happy New Year of 2022, everyone! The last year 2021, we finished STRONG despite the pandemic!!! I applaud everyone for working so hard! AND definitely, THANK YOU for all your hard work! Dr. Chen just gave a recent update on what happened in 2021, and we DID NOT disappoint! HATS OFF to all of us! […]

Dr. Libo Zhou and co-authors published a new paper recently titled “Controlled Self-Assembly of DNA-Mimicking Nanotubes to Form a Layer-by-Layer Scaffold for Homeostatic Tissue Constructs” (doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c13345). The image is also featured as one of the journal covers which is awesome!!! Congratulations!!   Abstract as seen in the manuscript Various biomaterial scaffolds have been developed […]

It is that time of the year! It is the BMES Conference time! Many of Dr. Yupeng Chen’s students are going to presenting at upcoming the BMES 2021 Conference!! We are all excited to go! The conference is taking place in Orlando, Florida from October 6th to October 2021. More information in the link below! […]

Dr.Yupeng Chen has been awarded a prestigious grand award from the U.S. Department of Defense. Using our developed Janus base nanotubes (JBNTs), we are planning to create a targeted delivery to improve muscular and skeletal injuries which often lead to arthritis. Dr. Chen wants to use nanopieces, based on JBNTs to create a targeted delivery […]