News

September 2011

• Casey Kraning-Rush wins the 2011 CNF Annual Meeting Best Poster Award!

July 2011

• Cindy Reinhart-King is awarded an Affinito-Stewart Grant from the President’s Council of Cornell Women.

June 2011

• Cindy Reinhart-King has been invited to speak in the Pezcoller Symposium on "Engineering in Cancer Research" in Trento, Italy.

April 2011

• Shawn Carey and Courtney Faber are awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Congratulations Shawn and Courtney!

March 2011

• The Reinhart-King Lab's work in cancer cell mechanics is profiled in Nature Medicine!

January 2011

• Cindy Reinhart-King has been awarded an NSF CAREER Award to pursue the lab’s work on endothelial cell migration! 
• Cindy Reinhart-King has been awarded an R21 from the NHLBI to pursue the lab’s work on age-related blood vessel stiffening.  
• Libin Yuan joined the lab as a new postdoc! 
• Brooke Smith has been selected to represent the BME Department at the Newsweek Emerging Leaders Global Summit on January 22 in New York City.  
  

December 2010

• Na Young Kim, Monica Jackman and Alina Starchenko graduated with their M.Eng. degrees! 
  

October 2010

• Cindy Reinhart-King received the 2010 Biomedical Engineering Society Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award. The award is given annually to an investigator "whose originality and ingenuity is demonstrated in a published work." She gave the Rita Schaffer Memorial Lecture during the BMES Annual Meeting in Austin, TX. This is BMES’s highest recognition for a young investigator. 
  
• Casey Kraning won a competitive Graduate Student Extended Abstract Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society for her abstract on "Metastatic cells from breast and prostate generate increased force compared to non-metastatic cells." She also won a Caroline Coffey Fund Travel Award from Cornell University to attend the 2010 annual BMES meeting in Austin, TX.  
  

September 2010

• Courtney Faber joined the lab as a PhD student! 

July 2010

• Cindy Reinhart-King has been awarded the Sonny Yau '72 Excellence in Teaching Award from the Cornell University's College of Engineering. This is the highest award for teaching in the college.
• Shawn Carey has been awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Med-into-Grad Fellowship.

June 2010

• Cindy Reinhart-King has been awarded a grant from the American Federation for Aging Research to pursue her work investigating the link between aging and cardiovascular disease.
• Jonathan Charest has been awarded a Morgan Family Fellowship, a competitive internal Cornell fellowship. 
  
• John Peloquin, Jason Yang, Peter Sung, Rafael Gonzalez-Cruz and Anthony Yeh have graduated with their M.Eng. degrees. 

May 2010

• Cindy Reinhart-King has been awarded the World Congress of Biomechanics Young Investigator Award (silver). 
  The award will be conferred at the Congress, which is held once every four years, in Singapore in August 2010.  
  
• Cindy Reinhart-King has been appointed as a field member in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department.
  
• Lulu Bai has been selected as a 2010 Cornell Hughes Scholar. 
  
• Alina Starchenko, an undergraduate turned MEng in the lab, has been selected to be an NSF Fellow to the 9th International Summer School on Biocomplexity from Gene to System, Istanbul Turkey 
  

April 2010

• Lulu Bai, an undergraduate student in the lab, won the Cornell Engineering Alumni Association Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award.  
  
• NSF announces winners of the graduate research fellowships.  Tracy Cheung has been selected to receive an award and Jon Charest, Shawn Carey and John Peloquin have been selected for Honorable Mention! 

March 2010

• Casey Kraning, PhD student in the lab, won a Physical Sciences Oncology Young Investigator Award to pursue a one-year research project in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins PSOC. 
  
• The Reinhart-King Lab has been awarded an NIH R21 to pursue work on cellular traction stresses in 3D.  This work will be done in collaboration with the Wu Lab in Biological and Environmental Engineering. 

November 2009

• John Peloquin, an MEng student in the lab, has been awarded Honorable Mention in the Olympus Bioscapes Microscopy Competition for his fluorescently-stained image of an artery cross-section. See his image here. 
• Shawn Carey has been selected to be the student representative to the National Biomedical Engineering Society Board! 
  

October 2009

• Cornell has been selected to be one of 12 newly formed NCI-funded Physical Science-Oncology centers. Cornell’s center is focused on the role of the microenvironment in metastasis.  Cindy Reinhart-King is one of the three project leaders for this center. Check it out here.

 August 2009

• MEng student John Peloquin wins the Boehringer fellowship award, a competitive scholarship to support his Masters of Engineering studies.
• Cindy Reinhart-King spoke at the "Engineering Cell Biology III" conference in Santa Cruz, CA on "Mechanical Regulation of Endothelial Cell Network Formation"
• Joe Califano wins a competitive 2009 BMES Extended Abstract Award for his abstract on "Traction Force Generation During Endothelial Cell Network Formation."  

 May 2009

• John Huynh is awarded a competitive NSF GK-12 Fellowship for the upcoming year.
• Cindy Reinhart-King, Casey Kraning and David Erickson win the Cornell Center for Life Science Enterprise Second Place Award, awarded for best scientific communication to a broad audience, for their poster on "Light: Strong Enough to Stop a Speeding Cell"

April 2009

• Casey Kraning and Brooke Smith, first-year PhD students in the lab, both win NSF Graduate Fellowships! Josie Bodle, former MEng who is now at NC State in the Loboa Lab, also wins a fellowship!

March 2009

• Tracy Cheung, an undergraduate in the lab, won 1st place at the 2009 Annual Institute of Biological Engineering conference in Santa Clara, CA and 2nd place at the Cornell BioExpo for her poster entitled "BAEC proliferation on variably compliant polyacrylamide gels."

February 2009

• Cindy Reinhart-King has been invited to speak at the Soft Active Materials Workshop hosted by Syracuse University in May 2009.

January 2009

• Cindy Reinhart-King has been invited to speak at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference in Minneapolis in
  September 2009.

December 2008

• Kartoa Chow and Samantha Spindel, M.Eng students in the lab, are graduating. Kartoa will be starting at Merck and Samantha will be working for the Food and Drug Administration.
  
• Joe Califano has won a Sigma Xi Student Grants-in-Aid of Research award.

October 2008

• Cindy Reinhart-King spoke at the 2008 Society of Engineering Science Meeting hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Tracy Cheung, an undergraduate student in the lab, has been selected to present at the Cornell Institute of Biological Engineers' Regional Conference.

September 2008

• Cindy Reinhart-King helped organize and gave a talk in the “Innovation in Nanotechnology for Cancer Research”
  one-day workshop, co-organized by the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility and the National Cancer Institute.

• Joe Califano’s paper entitled “A Balance of Substrate Mechanics and Matrix Chemistry Regulates Endothelial Cell Network Assembly” came out in Cell and Molecular Bioengineering. It is featured at the BMES 2008 annual meeting as an “Outstanding Paper” in the Cell and Molecular Engineering Track.

July 2008

• Cindy Reinhart-King has been awarded an American Heart Scientist Development Award to support the lab’s work on atherosclerosis progression.

June 2008

• The Reinhart-King Lab moves into their new lab space in the newly-constructed Weill Hall.

May 2008

• The first Reinhart-King Lab student has graduated! Josie Bodle earned her M.Eng at Cornell and is now off to UNC to pursue a PhD in BME.

April 2008

• John Huynh, a PhD student in the lab, has won Honorable Mention in the NSF Graduate Fellowship Program.

January 2008

• The Reinhart-King Lab settles into our temporary home in Duffield Hall while Weill Hall is under construction.