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Recent news
May 28, 2026
Congratulations to Sungjin and Rahul on presenting their work at the 2026 MPS World Summit held in Washington, DC!

May 16, 2026
Dr. Arum Han presented at the 2026 MPRINT (Maternal and Pediatric Precision in Therapeutics) Conference on the topic of “Organ-on-a-Chip of the Feto-Maternal Interface to Minimize the Use of Animals.”

May 05, 2026
Congratulations, Dr. Jeong Jae Han! Jeong Jae successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation.

April 13, 2026
Congratulations, Dr. Yuwen Li! Yuwen successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation.

March 25, 2026
Congratulations, PRISM: A unified platform for phage isolation and characterization from single-droplet microenvironments” has been published in the journal Science Advances.

March 20, 2026
Dr. Arum Han presented a newly developed barrier on a chip, mimicking the proximal tubule, at the “NAMs decision center advisory meeting” in College Station to discuss a new opportunity to research higher-throughput risk assessment. Huge shout-out to Bowie P. Lam for her dedication in developing a new organ-on-chip system.

Jan 06, 2026
Congratulations, Rahul and Sungjin! Their study titled “Reducing small molecule adsorption in a PDMS-based microphysiological system of the female reproductive tract via parylene-C coating to improve mechanistic studies” has been published in the Journal of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Dec 19, 2025
Congratulations, Bowie, Sungjin, Haemin, and Rahul! Their work, “Enhanced operation of female reproductive microphysiological system (MPS) for rapid mechanistic study” has been published in the Journal of Micro and Nano Systems Letters. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40486-025-00246-0
Dec 16, 2025
Dr. Arum Han visited the Institute of Medical Science and Technology at National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU) to discuss collaboration opportunities with Professor Cheng-Hsin Chuang. We also thank Professor Ching-Chou Wu of National Chung Hsing University for this great opportunity.

Dec 16, 2025
Dr. Arum Han visited the College of Engineering at National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), Taiwan, to discuss potential collaborations in the broad areas of semiconductor and biomedical devices with the Texas A&M University College of Engineering. Thank you for the warm welcome!

Dec 12, 2025
Congratulations to Sungjin on presenting his poster, “Evaluating the Organ-Specific Effects of PFAS Using a Pregnancy Microphysiological System (MPS).” His research focuses on investigating PFAS exposure using a microphysiological system (MPS). We also extend our sincere thanks to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the Texas A&M University Superfund Research Center for their support.

Dec 09, 2025
Dr. Arum Han delivered an invited talk at the 12th Gear-Up Forum (Link), held at National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) in Taiwan.

Dec 02, 2025
Congratulations! A strong partnership has begun with an outstanding team. We are grateful for the discussions with Lockheed Martin and look forward to building this collaboration.





