We are happy to host three REU students this summer: Jessee Pinson (CoE SURE, from UW-Platteville), Keriel Villarrubia (CBE REU, from UPR-Mayaguez), and Angeline Cao (UWCCC SCORE, from Macalester College). We’re excited to see what …
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New pilot funding from WARF/Millipore Sigma
We are thrilled to receive the WARF/Millipore Sigma Challenge Grant! This will support our efforts to build functional stem cell-derived blood-brain barrier models, in collaboration with the Shusta and Palecek labs.
New pilot funding from SCRMC
We’ve received pilot funding from the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center, in order to launch a collaboration with Prof. Masatoshi Suzuki’s lab (Vetmed).
Sarah, Christine, and Tiana pass their prelim exams!
Congrats to the first Ngo lab graduate students for passing their prelim exams, and therefore advancing to PhD candidacy. We’re excited to see how their projects progress over the next year! Look out for their …
Sarah is awarded the 2025 – 2026 PPG Fellowship!
Congratulations to Sarah for receiving a PPG Fellowship from the College of Engineering! This award recognizes outstanding scholarship, research, and engagement in the UW-Madison community and beyond.
Welcome Casey!
We’re excited that Casey Stiles will be joining the lab as a first-year graduate student in CBE. He comes to us from the University of Washington, and brings experience in imaging analysis and flow cytometry. …
Jacob presents at the AICHE student conference
Jacob presented his research at the AICHE student conference in Boston, and won 3rd place in the Food, Pharma, and Biotech V division of the undergraduate research poster competition. Congrats Jacob!
We’ve published our first paper!
Congrats to Christine and Sarah for the publication of their review article in Frontiers of Chemical Engineering! We provide an overview of different -omics technologies, and how they can be used to design and analyze …
Christine is accepted into the BTP T32 program!
Congratulations to Christine for earning a graduate traineeship through the Biotechnology Training T32 program!
Jacob wins a Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
Jacob is the first undergraduate from the Ngo lab to win a Hilldale undergraduate research fellowship! The award provides a stipend to pursue an independent research project in the 2025 – 2026 academic year.