Welcome to the Gao Lab for Biomaterials Research!
News
10/7/2025: We welcome undergraduate student Roshni Pal and master’s student Yu-Yi Lin to the lab! See the Members page for more information.
8/25/2025: We welcome first-year graduate student Chen Wang! We are thrilled to have you in the lab. See the Members page for more information.
8/18/2025: We received an R21 Trailblazer Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of the NIH. Thanks for the support!
8/18/2025: We have been awarded the R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the NIH. Thanks for the support!
8/1/2025: Alan and Harison presented our recent work on HemPRO in two poster presentations at the UT Dallas SPUR Symposium.
7/23/2025: The Gao Lab had the Summer 2025 Lunch & Learn event at Nan Hotpot in Plano.
6/18/2025: We are excited to welcome master’s student Muhammad Ahsan! See the Members page for more information.
5/8/2025: We received funding from the UT Dallas SPIRe. Thanks for the support!
4/15/2025: Congratulations to Wanyu for passing the qualifying exam!
2/28/2025: Congratulations to Alan for receiving the BE STARS (SUMMER TRAINING AND RESEARCH SCHOLARS) for doing research in the lab over the summer.
2/28/2025: Congratulations to Harison for receiving the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP) Awards for doing research in the lab over the summer.
2/5/2025: Welcome, Dr. Haiyang Yong! We are thrilled to have you join the lab as a research associate. See the Members page for more information.
1/21/2025: We are excited to welcome undergraduate students Christina Baklenova and Emma Mihaila! See the Members page for more information.
9/5/2024: We welcome undergraduate students Carlos Daniel Perez Ortiz, Tiffany Ann Leung, and Anagha Murthy to the lab! See the Members page for more information.
8/19/2024: We welcome first-year graduate student Wanyu Zhao! We are thrilled to have you in the lab. See the Members page for more information.
7/16/2024: We welcome summer student Isabella Robertson! See the Members page for more information.
7/15/2024: Please check out this collaborative review article on designing drug delivery systems for cell therapy published online in Nat. Rev. Bioeng. Click on the image below to check out the paper.
3/25/2024: We received funding from the TRC4. Thanks for the support!
3/24/2024: We received funding from the UT Dallas NFRS. Thanks for the support!
1/3/2024: We are excited to share this collaborative work on developing macrophage-adhering hydrogel backpacks for MRI imaging after traumatic brain injury is published in Sci. Transl. Med. Click on the image below to check out the paper.
12/6/2023: We welcome undergraduate students Ashley Cua, Sai Mariappan, Alan Bao and Dhvani Sharma! See the Members page for more information
11/28/2023: Yongsheng presents in the 5th Annual New Faculty Research Symposium at UT Dallas.
11/9/2023: Yongsheng presents in the #ECS Faculty 3MT# at UT Dallas.
11/6/2023: We welcome freshman undergraduate students, Harison Sakura and Sihao Wang! See the Members page for more information.
11/2/2023: Yongsheng gives an introductory lecture on Biomedical Engineering in ECS 1100: Introduction to Engineering and Computer Science.
8/22/2023: Class begins! Yongsheng is teaching BMEN3399 Introductory Biomechanics.
8/18/2023: Yongsheng presents in the #BE Ready# at UT Dallas.
8/1/2023: The Gao lab begins in the BSB building at UT Dallas!