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Lisa successfully defends PhD dissertation!

Lisa successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Cervia!

Lisa wins 2nd Place Award in SWE Graduate Poster Competition

Congratulations to Lisa for being selected as a finalist and winning 2nd place in the graduate student poster competition at the Society of Women Engineers Annual Conference (WE17) in Austin, TX.

National BMES Conference 2017

Lisa and Mao present posters at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) annual meeting in Phoneix, AZ.

Fan elected as a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society

Congratulations to Dr. Fan Yuan for being elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2017 Class of Fellows!

2nd World Congress on Electroporation

Dr. Fan Yuan gave a Plenary Lecture on mechanisms of cell electrotransfection at the 2nd World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, Medicine and Food & Environmental Technologies. Mao was awarded 1st place in the...

Lisa wins Travel Award to ASCB/EMBO Meeting 2017

Congratulations to Lisa for being awarded the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Travel Award to the ASCB/EMBO Meeting! Her poster was accepted for presentation at this year's conference in Philadelphia, PA on December 4, 2017.

Lisa wins award at BME Retreat

Congratulations to Lisa for being awarded 3rd place in the poster competitition at the Duke University Biomedical Engineering Department Retreat in Wilmington, NC.

Dr. Fan Yuan wins Capers and Mario McDonald Award

Congratulations to Dr. Fan Yuan for being awarded the Capers and Mario McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research!

Lisa wins Kewaunee Achievement Award

Lisa is awarded the Kewaunee Student Achievement Award at the 2017 Annual Kewaunee Lecture in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering.

Lisa presents at Biophysical Society Conference 2017

Lisa will give a talk entitled, "Distinct effects of endosomal escape and inhibition of endosomal trafficking on gene delivery via electrotrasnfection," on February 15, 2017 in New Orleans, LA at the Biophysical Society (BPS) Annual Meeting.

Mao prelims

Mao passes his prelim exam! Congratulations, Mao!

Dr. Jing Ji joins the lab

Dr. Jing Ji joins the Yuan lab as a Visiting Scholar! Welcome Jing!

National BMES Conference 2016

Dr. Fan Yuan, Lisa, and Mao present at the National Biomedical Engineering Society Conference 2016 in Minneapolis, MN.  Lisa will give a talk entitled, "Essential role of endocytic vesicles and trafficking in gene delivery via electrotransfection," on...

Lisa attends SBI2 Conference

Lisa attends the SBI2 High Content 2016 - 3rd Annual Conference at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Lisa is Founding President of Duke BMES Graduate Section

Lisa founded the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Graduate Section at Duke University and will serve as President in its first year!