News

 

  • Andrea receives University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) Graduate School Advanced Opportunity Program (AOP) Fellowship award for the 2023-2024 academic year. Congrats Andrea!

 

  • Reza passed his qualifying exam. He took the exam on February 2023.  Congrats Reza!

 

 

  • Dr Dabagh has joined as “faculty mentor” the WiscAMP STEM-Inspire Program which is committed to improving the recruitment, retention, and graduation of underrepresented minorities in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) majors.  Read more here :https://uwm.edu/steminspire/staff/

 

  • Dr Dabagh’s contribution to EnQuest2022 program is now published in the UWM EnQuest / Ansys blog, with the title of: Female High School students Embark on Engineering Quests at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. It has been also posted in CEAS NEWS.

 

  • Dr. Dabagh receives “Teacher Excellence Award”. She is recognized for excellent teaching by UWM-Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, , through Student “Shout Out” for Teaching Excellence (December 2022).

 

  • Morgan and Andrea join Dabagh lab as Master of Science students, starting January 2023. Welcome!

 

  • Congratulations to Morgan, Andrea, Kelly, Parker, and Nada on completing their undergraduate studies. All your hard-work and dedication are appreciated!

 

  • Our journal article “Impact of Wound Dressing on Mechanotransduction within Tissues of Chronic Wounds” has been published in “Biomedicines 2022, 10, 3080”.

 

 

  • Dabagh Lab members participates BMES 2022, San Antonio, TX, October 12-15. Morgan, Kelly, and Pushyan present their research works in BMES!

 

  • Dr Dabagh (as co-PI)  and her 2 collaborators received a National Science Foundation grant to create three-annual summer schools to teach machine learning, computational methods, high-performance computing, and cyberinfrastructure to support research projects.

 

 

  • Dr. Dabagh will co-chair two sessions in 2022 BMES Annual Meeting – Biomedical Engineering Society, San Antonio, Texas, October 12-15, 2022:
    • “Microengineered Models of Tumor-Stromal Interactions” session on “Cancer Technologies Track”
    • “Imaging Tissue, Organs, and Physiological Systems” session on “Imaging and Instrumentation Track”.

 

 

  • Reza joins our group as doctoral student, starting Fall 2022. Welcome Reza!

 

  • John  joins our group as master student, starting Fall 2022. Welcome John!

 

  • Andrea is accepted for accelerated master program to continue her research in the lab, starting Fall 2022. Congrats Andrea!

 

  • Our journal article “Mechanotransduction in Endothelial Cells in Vicinity of Cancer Cells” has been published in “Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering”.

 

  • Our journal article “Association of Hypertension and Organ-Specific Cancer: A Meta-Analysis” has been published in “Healthcare” . This paper emphasizes on the prevalence of hypertension and cancer comorbidity.

 

  • Dr Dabagh joins Frontiers in Medicine as Review Editor on the Editorial Board.

 

 

  • Morgan Suzanne Connaughton wins first place in CEAS 2022 Student Research Poster Competition Award.  Congrats Morgan!

 

 

 

 

  • News on Dr Dabagh’s DIG grant In CEAS News!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Reza has been awarded the CEAS Dean’s Fellowship. Congrats Reza!

 

  • Our abstract  “Role of mechanotransduction in promoting intracellular and intercellular transmigration of cancer cells through endothelium in microvasculature” has been accepted for oral presentation at the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), London, UK on 21-23 June 2022.

 

  • Dr. Dabagh is nominated by students as “Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, 2022!

 

  • Morgan (Modeling of Organ-Specific Tumor Microenvironment To Analyze Cell-To-Cell Interactions) and Andrea’s (The Impact of Disturbed Flow Induced Arterial Stiffness on Mechanotransduction in Endothelial cells) abstracts have been accepted to the 2022 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (SB3C2022), June 21-23 at Cambridge, Maryland. Congrats Morgan and Andrea!

 

  • Kelly’s abstract has been accepted for oral presentation at the UW System Symposium for Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity at UW-Whitewater on Friday, April 22, 2022.

 

  • UWM- College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) supports Dr. Dabagh’s application for recruitment of one postdoctoral researcher.

 

  • Dr Dabagh and her collaborators innovative idea is accepted to Milwaukee I-Corps program (Funded by the NSF as an I-Corps  Site of Southeastern Wisconsin).

 

  • News on Dr Dabagh and her collaborators NSF grant In UWM Report

  • Dr. Dabagh is selected to serve as an application evaluator for the SMART Scholarship Program, starting January 2022.

 

  • Kelly join Joins the lab starting Spring 2022. Welcome Kelly!

 

  • Our abstract has been accepted for an oral presentation on APWCA’s Wound Week 2022, February 24-27 at Philadelphia . Congrats Joshua, Kelly, and Alessandra!

 

 

  • Joshua and Arwa will graduate on December, 2021. Congrats to both of you. I really appreciate your hard work and contribution to the research projects!

 

  • Our NSF funding news appears in CEAS news feed:

 

  • Dr Dabagh has been selected as a mentor for XSEDE EMPOWER program (Expert Mentoring Producing Opportunities for Work, Education, and Research).

 

  • Alessandra graduated on August 2021. Congrats Alessandra! Thank you for hard work and great contributions to research projects of the lab.

 

  • Arwa Joins the lab. Welcome Arwa!

 

Dr Dabagh (as co-PI)  and her 3 collaborators received a National Science Foundation grant, titled” CC* Compute: A Balanced Cluster For Science and Engineering in the Great Lakes Region”.

 

  • Dr Dabagh is selected as a member of CEAS- Awards and Recognition Committee (ARC).

 

  • Dr Dabagh is selected as a member of CEAS-Academic Policy Committee (APC).

 

  • Dr Dabagh is nominated to BMES’ Board of Directors as an Academic Director.

 

  • Aleksa and Madison graduated on May 2021. Congrats! Thank you for hard work and great contributions to research projects of the group.

 

  • Morgan Suzanne Connaughton wins CEAS 2021 Student Research Poster Competition Award.  Congrats Morgan!

 

  • Annalise, Madison, and Morgan are selected as the finalists for College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) 2021 Student Research Poster Competition. Congrats everyone!

 

  • Dabagh’s lab receives second XSEDE Startup award supported by NSF in advanced computing infrastructure for U.S.

 

  • Madison Rose Schillinger wins “Outstanding Presentation Award” at 2021 Virtual UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congrats Madison!

 

 

  • Aleksa, Andrea, Matthew, and Morgan join to the group starting January 2021. Welcome!

 

  • Adeda, Eisa, and John graduated on December 2020. Congrats! Thank you for hard work and great contributions to research projects of the group.

 

  • John Quinn wins the Department Award in The College of Engineering & Applied Science annual Student Research Poster Competition 2020, in his undergraduate research . Congrats John!

 

  • Dr Dabagh has been accepted to attend the 2020 Advancing Cancer Biology at the Frontiers of Machine Learning and Mechanistic Modeling Innovation Lab, August 10-14 at Skamania, Oregon. The Innovation Lab is hosted by the National Cancer Institute and Carnegie Mellon University.

 

 

 

 

  • Congratulations to Sam for receiving College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) Academic Excellence Award, 2019!