Media Coverage

June 30, 2025:

“Innovative Early-Career Engineers Selected to Participate in The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2025 Symposium of the National Academy of Engineering”

Washington, D.C., June 30, 2025 —

WASHINGTON, June 30, 2025 — Seventy-four highly accomplished, early-career engineers have been selected to participate in the 2025 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, a signature activity of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Engineers who are performing exceptional research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together to share new techniques and approaches across fields, facilitate collaboration in engineering, and build professional networks among the next generation of engineering leaders.

August 29, 2024:

Cornell Chronicle Highlights our recent NSF CAREER award on breast cancer-related lymphedema on-a-chip!

April 18, 2024:

Cornell BME News: Esak Lee awarded NSF CAREER grant for lymphedema in breast cancer research.

October 3, 2023:

Targeting unsuspected protein reverses lymphedema

October 3, 2023:

Targeting a Protein May Help Reverse Lymphedema

October 3, 2023:

Cornell Chronicle Highlights our lymphedema-on-chip study!

10/24/2022

“Bioengineered glymphatic microvessels”

–> Find our paper here!

12/13/2019

“Lymph vessels on a chip reveal possible new drug target for lymphedema (Science, AAAS)”

8/28/2019

“Exposing how pancreatic cancer does its dirty work”

Harvard Wyss Institute Research Highlight: “Organ-on-chip study reveals mechanisms by which the disease destroys and replaces nearby blood vessels, driving malignancy”

10/10/2017

Lung cancer research gets a breath of fresh air

https://wyss.harvard.edu/lung-cancer-research-gets-a-breath-of-fresh-air/

10/10/2017

Human lung-on-a-chip technology is used to study behavior and drug responses of lung cancer in its natural environment, uncovering key mechanical dependencies

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/wifb-lcr100417.php