News

Apr 18, 2023
Congrats Cam for successfully defending your master’s thesis on Mechanical stimulation of engineered muscle constructs.

Apr 15, 2023
Congrats on presenting you Honor’s thesis on Membrane-cloaked nanoparticles for delivering senolytics to OA Knee.

Apr 11, 2023
Congrats Heather for being selected to receive the NSF gradaute research fellowhip in Engineering. Great achievement. Well deserved!

Apr 03, 2023
Congrats BITErs for winning the outstanding student awards for the acedemic year 2022-2023.

Nov 11, 2022
Congrats, Alex, on succesfully defending your Master’s research. Good luck with your future endeavours.

Oct 30, 2022
Congrats, Kate, on giving excellent research presentations and receving the 2nd best poster award at the 2022 Biomaterials Day held at Vanderbilt University! #Proud PI

Oct 20, 2022
Congrats, BITErs, on giving excellent research presentations at the 2022 BMES Annual meeting in San Antonio. You are the best! #Proud PI

Sep 23, 2022
Congrats, Matt, Jeremy, and Harshini on your recent paper developing injectable nanoporous microgels generate vascularized constructs <a href=https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19968-x>Link</a>.

Aug 20, 2022
Congrats, Matt, on your recent paper developing licensing microgels to modulate inflammation <a href=https://www.readcube.com/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.987032>Link</a>.

Feb 07, 2022
Congrats Team for getting this R21 grant award for our nanomedicine research. See the press release <a href=https://www.engr.uky.edu/news/2022/05/ramkumar-annamalai-receives-nih-r21-grant>here</a>.

Feb 07, 2022
Congrats Team for getting this Orthopedic Trauma Association grant. See the press release <a href=https://www.engr.uky.edu/news/2022/02/ramkumar-annamalai-receives-research-grant-orthopedic-trauma-association>here</a>.

Dec 10, 2021
Congrats Harshini for getting Professional Development Grant Award from the Center for Graduate & Professional Diversity Initiatives (CGPDI)

Oct 10, 2021
Great presentations by our amazing students at BMES 2021 (Orlando).

May 20, 2021
Congrats Austin for getting the ESURF Summer fellowship

Mar 26, 2021
Congrats BITE Lab for getting an NIH COBRE Grant. See the college press release <a href=https://www.engr.uky.edu/news/2021/03/ramkumar-annamalai-named-project-lead-investigator-nih-cobre-grant>here</a>.

Jan 1, 2021
Congrats BITE Lab for getting an IRC grant. See the press release <a href=https://www.engr.uky.edu/news/2020/12/annamalai-receives-igniting-research-collaborations-pilot-grant>here</a>.

May 1, 2020
Congrats Edwina Barnett for receiving the KY-WV LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) fellowship.

Jan 1, 2020
BITE Lab welcomes three new graduate students Harshini Suresh, and Matthew Patrick. Congrats on your acceptance to the BME graduate program.

Dec 10, 2019
Eunjae’s paper on ‘Bioresponsive microspheres for on‐demand delivery of anti‐inflammatory cytokines for articular cartilage repair’ published on <a href=https://doi.org/10.1002/jbm.a.36852>JBMR Part-A</a>.

Jun 06, 2019
Dr. Annamalai will be presenting our work on ‘Macrophage-mediated Release of BMP2 from Bioresponsive Microspheres for Vascularize bone Regeneration’ in the upcoming <a href=https://www.bmes.org/annualmeeting19>BMES Conference</a> at Philadelphia.