News

Congratulations to Aereas for the Engelson thesis award for the best PhD thesis in Bioengineering!
Congratulations to Gaurav for getting slected as 2016 Gordon Scholar Fellow!
Congratulations to Gaurav for his best Bioengineering poster award at the research expo 2016!
Congrats to Eva for receiving the NSF graduate research fellowship!
Our research is featured for the UCSD Big Ideas for 2016 - and Beyond article!
Congrats to Aereas, Gaurav, and Han for making it as oncofluidics to semifinalist for OneStart Competition!
Prof. Varghese has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.

Congrats to Nailah on being nominated for the School of Global Policy and Strategy Science Policy Fellow!
Congrats to Manando for his paper in Nature Communications!
Congrats to Aereas, Gaurav and Han for successfully advancing to the NSF I-Corps National Phase!
Congrats to Heemin for winning the Acta Student Award! Link
Congrats to Vernon for winning the Best Poster Award at the post-doc poster slam!
Thanks to Mesenchymal Stem Cell news for highlighting our article! Link
Congratulations to Heemin for winning the 2015 Acta Student Award!
Congratulations to the senior design team for winning the Eugene H. Memorial award 2015!
Congratulations to Vikram for the best bioengineering TA award 2015!
Congratulations to Vikram and co. for winning the best poster at BEday 2015!
Congratulations to Ivneet and co. for winning the best department poster at Research Expo 2015! Link
Short commentary on a recent Nature article!
Congratulations to Gaurav, Ivneet, Aereas and Han for being awarded with the UCSD NSF icorp award!
Thanks to CIRM for their continual support.
At the KUSI News studio!

Congratulations to Aereas on his new manuscript on the biophysics of cancer metastasis! (which has been highlighted by biophysics journal!) Biophys Highlight
Congratulations to Harsha and Joshua on their new publication on improving stem cell transplantation efficiency! Link
Congratulations to Harsha Kabra on her successful defense, and we wish her all the best in her job!
Congratulations to Augustus Patton on his successful defense, and his new position at Abbott Laboratories!
Congratulations to Aereas Aung for winning the UCSD interdisciplinary research award!
New Website Launched!
Vernon's upcoming paper is accepted into PNAS! Click here to see it!

Quoted on BBC article! Link
The Varghese lab would like to extend our warmest welcome to Vernon Shih!
Congrats to Shruti for passing the qualifying exams with a distinction!
Congrats to Cecilia on her defence!
Congrats to Fei on her new position at St Jude's! All the best!
Congrats to Joydeep Biswas on his academic position at Sikkam Manipal Institute of Technology
Aereas Aung is selected to be a pre-doctoral fellow in the NIH/NHLBI Training Grant.

Congrats to Aereas for receiving NSF honorable mention!
Congrats to Nathaniel Hwang on his appointment at Seoul National University!
Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Hwang for a successful disssertation!
Congrats to Jeff on his new academic appointment at National Tsing Hua University!
Congratulations to Nivedita on her position at Dupont!
Congrats to Joshua Hwang for winning the STAR award!
Dr. Shyni Varghese is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Congratulations to Aereas for winning the ARCS scholarship!
Congratulations for Chao Zhang on his new academic position at Sun Yat-Sen University!
Congratulations to Ramses on his position at SAIC!
Congrats to Aereas for receiving the Calit2 summer 2009 research scholarship!
Congratulations to Allison Gilles for winning the NSF research fellowship!
Congrats to Aereas for receiving the REU summer research scholarship!
Congrats to Jessica for receiving the Chancellor's research award!
Dr. Shyni Varghese is the awardee of the CIRM new faculty award!